week twenty two 1100 words

WEEK 22   DAY 1

NEW WORDS

juxtapose

plight

covert

cope

incompatibility

FEMALE ALCOHOLICS

When we Juxtapose the words "woman· and "alcoholic· many readers are surprised. However, the plight of America's several million female alcoholics is rapidly increasing in intensity. But the statistics are inexact because it is estimated that there are nine covert alcoholics for every one under treatment. Women drink to help themselves to cope with life's vicissitudes* They drink because of financial pressures, incompatibility, frustration.* and related reasons.

Sample Sentences Use the new words in the following sentences.

Definitions Match the new words with their meanings.

TODAY'S IDIOM

plea bargain-to agree to plead guilty to a lesser charge

so as to avoid trial for a more serious offense.

The defendant finally took his lawyer's advice and agreed

to a plea bargain of third-degree assault.

WEEK 22   DAY 2

NEW WORDS

incapacitated

fabricate

connubial

demur

appellation

A PROFILE OF THE WOMAN WHO DRINKS TO EXCESS

The typical alcoholic woman is above average in intelligence, in her forties. married, with two children. She started drinking socially in high school or college. Although frequently incapacitated. she can fabricate a story skillfully and thus conceal her true physical condition. She often attributes her alcoholism to connubial stress, boredom, or depression. A large percentage of the women give family histories of alcoholism. Most female drinkers would demur at the appellation of "alcoholic"-and that makes their treatment all the more difficult.

IMPORTANT  NOTE: How good a detective are you? Did you spot one of the new words that had been introduced earlier? (Fabricate) It should be part of your vocabulary now. From time to time in the lessons that follow, your alertness will be tested as a previously learned word is reintroduced.

Sample Sentences Use the new words in the following sentences.

Definitions Match the new words with their meanings.

TODAY'S IDIOM

in apple pie order-in neat order, good condition

The house was in dreadful condition when Mrs. Maslow arrived,

but when she left it was in apple pie order.

WEEK 22   DAY 3

NEW WORDS

escalation

indifference

potential

cumulative

recondite

NEFARIOUS* EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL

Aside from the reasons offered earlier, doctors have other interesting reasons for the escalation in female drinking. They also indict* social acceptance and indifference to alcohol's potential danger as contributory factors. If women realized the harmful extent of the cumulative effect of alcohol, they might taper off in their public and recondite drinking. Forty-three percent of the female alcoholics in a survey showed evidence of liver damage, and a quarter of the whole group had a high white-blood-cell count. Almost five percent of the patients died shortly after their release from the hospital.

Sample Sentences If you can still see clearly after all the references to liquor, use the new words in the following sentences.

Definitions Match the new words with their meanings.

TODAY'S IDIOM

apple polishing-trying to gain favor by gifts or flattery

If the way to advancement in this company is through apple polishing, I quit!

WEEK 22   DAY 4

NEW WORDS

palliate

delude

prelude

chimerical

acknowledge

DANGER SIGNALS

A potential" female alcoholic should be cognizant* of certain danger signals:

1. a. Using alcohol in an attempt to palliate her problems.
2. b. Deluding herself about the extent of her drinking habits.
3. c. Drinking at regular time periods, both day and night.
4. d. Reliance upon alcohol as a prelude to a major social obligation.
5. e. Making unrealistic promises about terminating- her drinking.
6. f. Using alcohol as a medication for real or chimerical illnesses. If in evaluating* her drinking, a woman acknowledged that several of the danger signals applied to her, she should see a physician.

Sample Sentences Use the new words In the following sentences.

Definitions Match the new words with their meanings.

TODAY'S IDIOM

the Draconian Code--a very severe set of rules (Draco, an Athenian lawmaker

of the 7th century B.C., prescribed the death penalty for almost every violation.)

The head counselor ran our camp according to his own Draconian Code.

WEEK 22   DAY 5

REVIEW

If you're driving, don't drink! Alcohol does not mix with gasoline! We have seen those slogans on many billboards. Here's a new one: "If you use words. use good ones!" Match the twenty words with their meanings. Write the letter that stands for the definition in the appropriate answer space.