Pick the right choice:
1. The centre’s goals have a small impact on the priorities of local officials preoccupied with a myriad of daily challenges. In this sentence, myriad means :
a. too numerous to be counted
b. not conforming to legality, moral law, or social norms
c. incapable of being gone across or through
d. inside the country
2. By ________ arguments, and false reasoning with himself, he had acquired confused ideas of right and wrong.
a. pliable
b. inalienable
c. nebulous
d. fallacious
3. That narrow white border was foam, he knew well; but its boisterous tosses were so distant as to appear a pulsation only, and its plashing was barely audible. In this sentence, boisterous means? (Source: A Pair of Blue Eyes)
a. pleasing to the sense of taste
b. violently agitated and turbulent
c. free of pathological microorganisms
d. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
4. To emphasise her innate "techiness" she carries a pink laptop and sports a Bluetooth headset. In this sentence, innate means :
a. being talented through inherited qualities
b. muscular and heavily built
c. feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
d. unrestrained by convention or morality
5. It's an old rustic house with wood floors and a big wrap-around porch and the kind of windows that open out. In this sentence, rustic means :
a. affording physical relief
b. appropriate to a purpose
c. characteristic of rural life
d. in a state of mental numbness as resulting from shock
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Answers:
1. A, If you've got myriad problems it doesn't mean you should call a myriad exterminator, it means you've got countless problems; loads of them; too many to count. Welcome to the club.
Myriad is one of those words rarely used in speech but only in written form. You would usually use a phrase like "lots of" or "loads of" instead. I mean, you could say "I've got myriad problems," but everyone would probably just laugh at you, and rightly so. Originally from ancient Latin and Greek words meaning "ten thousand" — so perhaps you can put a number on myriad, after all.
2. D, Something fallacious is a mistake that comes from too little information or unsound sources. Predictions that the whole state of California will snap off from the rest of North America and float away have proven to be fallacious — for now, anyway.
Fallacious comes ultimately from the Latin fallax, "deceptive." The word fallacious might describe an intentional deception or a false conclusion coming from bad science or incomplete understanding. "Her assumption that anyone that old — over 20 — could understand her tween dilemma was fallacious; her sister had been young once too."
3. B, The adjective boisterous is what you would use if you want to call attention in a loud or clamorous way. Boisterous means "loud, clamorous, and unrestrained." Think of children on a playground or a popular restaurant or a bunch of puppies as boisterous.
This word, which comes from Middle English, can also refer to very intense storms — synonyms in this case are "tempestuous," "tumultuous," "turbulent," "violent," and "wild." You could definitely call a hurricane boisterous!
4. A, If a characteristic or ability is already present in a person or animal when they are born, it is innate. People have the innate ability to speak whereas animals do not.
Innate can also be used figuratively for something that comes from the mind rather than from external sources. Do you know someone with an innate sense of style? Some kids seem to have an innate sense of fairness where others seem to be natural bullies. In some contexts, innate means inherent. There is an innate sadness in certain types of ceremonies.
5. C, When you think of the word rustic, think of the rural country. This word can be given a positive or a negative spin depending on how you use it; a rustic inn, for example, might be quaint or it might be virtually uninhabitable.
The words rustic and "rural" spring from the same ancient root: *rur-, which means "open space" in the hypothetical ancestor language Proto-Indo-European. In early usage, these two words were used interchangeably, but now, rural is used to describe locations –- "rural community," "rural location" — while rustic refers to the unrefined qualities associated with country life. The best antonym is cosmopolitan, which implies the sophistication and worldliness of city life.
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