Week 4

Question 1

aberrant

Answer 1

(adj) deviating from the norm

The context causing this aberrant change is extremely hard to find, making the voicing development look truly irregular.

Question 2

anachronistic

Answer 2

(adj) belonging to another time; removed from natural chronological context

In nearly every way it remains a nineteenth-century anachronism unwilling to face contemporary moods and incapable of meeting them.

Question 3

brilliance

Answer 3

(noun) extreme brightness; possessing luminosity or genius

The authors, struck by the brilliance of the newly released dispatches, were dazzled by them.

Question 4

discordant

Answer 4

(adj) conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

When conversation has turned too serious or discordant, men introduce stories that are humorous or concern rather mundane behaviors and activities

Question 5

distention

Answer 5

(noun) the state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape

As the distention increases, fluids continue to increase, and the intestine absorbs less.

Question 6

florid

Answer 6

(adj) flowery; ruddy; ornate

He had much taste and love for music, and considerable gifts as an orator of a florid type.

Question 7

imperturbable

Answer 7

(adj) marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness

With her imperturbable calm she did not begin to speak in front of the valet.

Question 8

ostracism

Answer 8

(noun) the act of casting out or excluding an individual from a society or group; banishment

The whites who were responsible for the conduct of the blacks were warned or driven away by social and business ostracism or by violence.