同意と拒否.

使ってみる — 4問

おぼえたかどうかではなく、文に合う語を選べるかを試します。 選択肢はすべて、このテーマの語です。意味の遠い語は混ぜていません。 だから「よい意味か、わるい意味か」と「どのくらい強いか」で絞るのが、そのまま解き方になります。

1. 01

   When the observatory's directors reassigned its largest telescope to stellar photography in 1911, the junior astronomers on the staff privately thought the decision a mistake, yet not one of them filed an objection. No one had asked for their consent, and no argument had worn them down; nor did they hold the directors' judgment above their own, having forced that same office to reverse two earlier rulings. They simply chose to      . The reassignment took effect that autumn without a word of public debate.

   AaccedeBacquiesceCcapitulateDdefer

2. 02

   Marguerite Sorel ran the coastal field station for twenty years, and visiting researchers were struck by how easily she could be talked into a better method: she rewrote the station's sampling protocol one summer because a graduate student made a convincing case for it. Yet no one mistook her for a pushover — she argued down proposals she thought weak, and the staff parted each season on the best of terms. Her successors have never quite matched her       temperament.

   AamenableBcompliantCdiscordantDdivisive

3. 03

   For nearly forty years two rival herbaria shared a single collection building, and no document governs the arrangement: no treaty was drafted, no terms were signed. The two staffs agreed about almost nothing, least of all about how the ferns should be classified, yet curators traded specimens over lunch and quietly covered one another's gaps. Historians of the field still puzzle over how their       proved so durable without a single line of writing.

   AaccordBconcordCconsensusDdissonance

4. 04

   Ilse Norgaard designed forty-one buildings between 1948 and 1979, and not one of them carries a decorative moulding. She published no manifesto and gave no interview denouncing ornament; indeed she admired it warmly in the older buildings around her own. She had resolved, from her first commission onward, to       it — a preference she kept for thirty years without once explaining it.

   AabjureBeschewCforsakeDrepudiate

Agreement, Unity & Refusal — 30語30 words

このテーマの全語です。定義を隠して、 よい意味・わるい意味・中立の三つに分けてみるのが、いちばん効く使い方です。 分け間違えた語が、そのまま自分の弱点になります。

Every word in this theme. The best use of it is to cover the meanings and sort the list into positive, negative and neutral. Whichever ones you put in the wrong pile are exactly your weak spots.

内訳：よい意味 9語 ／ わるい意味 5語 ／ 中立 16語。 強さはこのテーマの中での相対です。テーマをまたいで比べる数字ではありません。

9 positive, 5 negative, 16 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.