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3rd Day
New Words
ubiquitous |
remote |
thwart |
harbinger |
malignant |
thwôrt
Stymied* by Personal Sickness
After an extensive lecture tour in 1956, Dr. Dooley returned to Laos to set up a mobile medical unit. Because the Geneva Agreement barred the entrance of military personnel to the country, he resigned from the Navy and went to work as a civilian. That story is told in The Edge of Tomorrow. Next year, despite a growing illness, the ubiquitous Dooley turned up in the remote village of Muong Sing, attempting to thwart his traditional enemiesdisease, dirt, ignorance, starvationand hoping to quell* the spread of communism. But his trained medical eye soon told him that the pain in his chest and back was a harbinger of a malignant cancer.
Sample Sentences
Use the new words in the following sentences.
1.Sprinting all over the court, the __________ referee called one foul after another.
2.Ben's reprehensible* table manners led his fraternity brothers to seat him in a __________ corner of the dining room.
3.The excellent soup was a __________ of the delicious meal to follow.
4.In an attempt to __________ the voracious* ants, he surrounded his house with a moat of burning oil.
5.The surgeon finally located the __________ tumor that had afflicted* his patient for many months. Definitions
Match the new words with their meanings.
6. ubiquitous |
____ a. distant, hidden away |
7. remote |
____ b. being everywhere at the same time |
8. thwart |
____ c. likely to cause death |
9. harbinger |
____ d. to hinder, defeat |
10. malignant |
____ e. a forerunner, advance notice |
Today's Idiom |
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to cool one's heelsto be kept waiting
The shrewd mayor made the angry delegates cool their heels in his outer office.
Answers are on Page 307
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4th Day
New Words
excruciating |
respite |
reverberating |
fretful |
succumb |
res′ pit
''Promises to Keep"
From August, 1959 until his death in January, 1961, Dooley suffered almost continuous, excruciating pain. His normal weight of 180 was cut in half, and even the pain-killing drugs could no longer bring relief. Knowing that he did not have long to live, Dr. Dooley worked without respite on behalf of MEDICO, the organization he had founded to bring medical aid and hope to the world's sick and needy. The lines of Robert Frost kept reverberating in his mind during those fretful days: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep." When he finally succumbed, millions throughout the world were stunned and grief-stricken by the tragedy.
Sample Sentences
Use the new words in the following sentences.
1.With __________ slowness, the minute hand inched its way around the clock.
2.The rescue team heard the miner's voice __________ through the caves.
3.Around income tax time __________ faces are ubiquitous.*
4.The voluble* insurance salesman gave my father no __________.
5.Besieged* by debts, the corporation finally had to __________ to bankruptcy. Definitions
Match the new words with their meanings.
6. excruciating |
____ a. an interval of relief, delay |
7. respite |
____ b. worrisome, irritable |
8. reverberating |
____ c. reechoing, resounding |
9. fretful |
____ d. agonizing, torturing |
10. succumb |
____ e. to give way, yield |
Today's Idiom |
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a red herringsomething that diverts attention from the main issue (a red herring drawn across a fox's path destroys the scent)
We felt that the introduction of his war record was a red herring to keep us from inquiring into his graft. Answers are on Page 307
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