chapter 16 - 17

Question 1

veritable

Answer 1

Used for emphasis, often to qualify a metaphor.
e.g
I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain, over the whole of the six continents, a veritable army of 462,5 1 1 lamplighters for the street lamps.

Question 2

regulate

Answer 2

Control or maintain the rate or speed of (a machine or process) so that it operates properly
e.g
The movements of this army would be regulated like those of the ballet in the opera.

Question 3

toil

Answer 3

Work extremely hard or incessantly.
e.g
Only the man who was in charge of the single lamp at the North Pole, and his colleague who was responsible for the single lamp at the South Pole— only these two would live free from toil and care: they would be busy twice a year.

Question 4

inhabitant

Answer 4

A person or animal that lives in or occupies a place.
e.g
If the two billion inhabitants who people its surface were all to stand upright and somewhat crowded together, as they do for some big public assembly, they could easily be put into one public square twenty miles long and twenty miles wide.