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Question 1

hermetically

Answer 1

so as to be airtight e.g. hermetically sealed

Question 2

assiduous

Answer 2

i. constant; unremitting e.g. assiduous reading
ii. constant in application or effort; working diligently at task; persevering; industrious; attentive e.g. an assiduous student

Question 3

pastiche

Answer 3

i. a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources
ii. incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources
e. g. “A nostalgic yet impossible pastiche of sentiments, as if two wholly unrelated memories had threaded together in an unknown recess.”

Excerpt From
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world
Haruki Murakami