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Question 1

given the reference in his file to his family’s wealth, perhaps it was also an act of deference to them to give him one of the more spacious and well-lit rooms in the hospital, despite the frequent shortage of beds and space.

Answer 1

deference-

humble submission and respect.

Question 2

and although perhaps it was too late for common sense, I suddenly felt more than a little jittery about my first meeting with a patient whose death toll extended not only other patients but even to those trained to face insanity without fear

Answer 2

*jittery nervous or unable to relax.

Question 3

I had expected verbal abuse, taunting, recitations of disturbing fantasies, and possibly even attempts to act on them.

Answer 3

*taunting - intended to provoke someone in an insulting or contemptuous manner.

Question 4

I’d *wager she’s done it to plenty of others.

Answer 4

a large or sufficient amount or quantity; more than enough.

I would have plenty of time to get home

Question 5

He was bitter and frustrated, yes, but seemed remarkably lucid, even sane.

Answer 5

*lucid - expressed clearly; easy to understand.

Question 6

He waved at his body in exasperation.

Answer 6

*in exasperation - a feeling of intense irritation or annoyance.

Question 7

Seeing this, Joe guffawed.

Answer 7

guffawed- laugh in a loud or boisterous way.

Question 8

Joe showed no signs of any mental illness beyond mild depression and agoraphobia, both of which I would expect from a patient who’d been locked up for twenty-plus years facing doctors whose sanity was gradually *deteriorating.

Answer 8

*deteriorating -becoming progressively worse.

Question 9

Then again, it was just one session, and the accusations against him were numerous.

Answer 9

*accusations- a charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong.

Question 10

Besides, I still hadn’t listened to the audiotapes in his full file, nor had I looked at the unredacted notes from the attending physicians that Dr. G—— had given me.

Answer 10

*unredacted -adjective. (of text) not having had sections censored or obscured for legal or security purposes.

Question 11

. Mentors are supposed to support their grad students, but this one member of her committee was an intransigent asshole, constantly negging her and her work.

Answer 11

*intransigent -
unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree about something.
her father had tried persuasion, but she was intransigent

Question 12

since a lot of apprenticeship programs have weird traditions of abuse that everyone has to get through,

Answer 12

*apprenticeship program-s
the position of an apprentice.
the company once offered apprenticeships

Question 13

when he ostensibly was suffering only from night terrors—

Answer 13

*ostensibly -
apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually.
portrayed as a blue-collar type, ostensibly a carpenter

Question 14

other doctors had missed because of its seeming banality.

Answer 14

*banality -
the fact or condition of being banal; unoriginality.
there is an essential banality to the story he tells

Question 15

Even so, Joe had been listed as an acute entomophobia, so this seemed like a natural expression of that fear.

Answer 15

*entomophobia- 급성 곤충 혐오증

Question 16

But through headphones cranked up that high, it was indubitable.

Answer 16

*crank up - 
(of a shaft, bar, etc.) having a bend.
the cranked axle allows the body of the carriage to be mounted lower
*indubitable - 
impossible to doubt; unquestionable.
an indubitable truth

Question 17

Dr. G——’s notes were very dismissive at first,

Answer 17

*dismissive-
feeling or showing that something is unworthy of consideration.
he is too dismissive of the importance of the industrialists

Question 18

You see, exactly a week later, that brief, almost flippant aside was followed by her final memo, which was so different it was almost whiplash-inducing.

Answer 18

*flippant -
not showing a serious or respectful attitude.
a flippant remark

Question 19

That memo I will transcribe here

Answer 19

*transcribe-
put (thoughts, speech, or data) into written or printed form.
each interview was taped and transcribed

Question 20

This, from my perspective, was almost the final nail in the “mystery patient no one can cure” theory’s coffin.

Answer 20

*coffin -
a long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a corpse is buried or cremated.
they lowered her coffin into the ground
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Question 21

No wonder Dr. P—— had snarled at me when I suggested taking Joe on as a patient.

Answer 21

*snarl at -
(of an animal such as a dog) make an aggressive growl with bared teeth.
the dog snarled at the boy

Question 22

no wonder dr.P had snarled at me when I suggested taking Joe on as a patient.

Answer 22

무서운 어조로 말하다

snarl

Question 23

He hadn’t been put in charge of that ward to heal anyone

Answer 23

*ward - ward, sick room, infirmary, sick bay

Question 24

He’d been put there to act as a jailer for the hospital’s one reliable revenue stream.

Answer 24

*janiler -
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Noun
교도관
screw, jailer, jailor, warder, yard bull, yard hack

Question 25

That very impulse was a threat to the means by which he kept his job secure.

Answer 25

*impulse -a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act.
I had an almost irresistible impulse to giggle

Question 26

but my pedigree put me out of reach, which must have called that overgrown bully even more than the fact someone with similar qualifications has leapfrogged over him in the race to be medical director.

Answer 26

*pedigree -	
origin, pedigree, derivation
*leapfrog- 
with legs parted, vault oneself over the backs of others who are bending down.
they leapfrogged around the courtyard

Question 27

all because one cruel woman had been simply too arrogant and too ambitious to handle being given a dud case for her first assignment.

Answer 27

arrogant *
having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities.
he’s arrogant and opinionated

dud* -
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Adjective
쓸모없는
dud, good-for-nothing, useless, hopeless, rotten, dead

Question 28

I suspected, then I vowed that by the time this was over, I was going to put a stake through her heart.

Answer 28

*stake - pile

Question 29

wondering if I was going to be scapegoated for any negative reactions.

Answer 29

*scapegoated 에게 죄를 전가하다

scapegoat

Question 30

Once I started looking for patterns, it became excruciatingly obvious that I was being followed by two orderlies, that titans of the hospital.

Answer 30

*excruciatingly - to an intensely painful degree.
it stings excruciatingly
*orderly -
a soldier who carries out orders or performs minor tasks for an officer

Question 31

their constant lurking presence screamed malevolence.

Answer 31

*lurking- 숨다
lurk, hide, sneak, occult
*malevolence- 악의
malice, spite, ill will, malevolence, malignity, animosity

Question 32

He was looking at me with the same crooked grin he’d worn the previous day.

Answer 32

*crooked- 마음이 비뚤어진

crooked

Question 33

How much of a dangerous nutcase do they say I am?

Answer 33

*nutcase-

a crazy or foolish person.

Question 34

How much of a dangerous nutcase do they say I am?

Answer 34

*nutcase-

a crazy or foolish person.

Question 35

I kept my expression bland, so as not to antagonize him or seem to be taking the bait.

Answer 35

*bland- 온화한
gentle, placid, bland, genial, benign, soft
*antagonize- 대항하다
cope, cope with, encounter, antagonize, countervail, counterwork

Question 36

she was friendly and tame and would let me pet her and even hold her

Answer 36

*tame- benevolent, biddable, compliant, benignant, malleable, tame

Question 37

His fist clenched

Answer 37

*clenched -꽉 쥐다

wring, press, clench, squeeze, clasp, grasp with force

Question 38

Joseph snuck a cat onto our property, Martha

Answer 38

조셉은 마사, 우리 집에 고양이를 몰래 넣었습니다.

Question 39

The sympathy I felt for Joe after hearing his heart-wrenching story stayed with me long after I excited his room on that fateful second day of our interactions.

Answer 39

*wrenching -왜곡하다

garble, distort, wrest, warp, wrench, wring