大胆さと傲慢さ.

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 Margarethe Vogl took over the provincial gallery in 1908, she rebuilt its collection in four years, and she did it by treating every request as an order. Colleagues insisted afterward that she never sneered at her staff and that no one heard her speak a discourteous word to them; she simply assumed that a sentence she had spoken ended the discussion, and she repeated an instruction word for word until it was carried out. Every matter she intervened in fell squarely inside her own authority, so she could not be accused of meddling in work that was not hers. Her manner was      , and the gallery's records show how much it accomplished.

   AhaughtyBimperiousCinsolentDofficious

2. 02

   The county's 1923 viaduct failed not because its designer misread his figures but because he set them aside. Bergstrom's own calculations showed that the center span would buckle under the traffic the county expected, and he had assured the board that he would stop work at the first sign of trouble — a standard he abandoned within the month. He went ahead anyway, not in a burst of feeling but as a calm trade of a contractor's wages against a season's delay, and without a single fresh estimate of what a collapse would cost. Nothing in the design was ambitious or untried, and historians of the accident have called the decision      .

   AaudaciousBimpetuousCrashDresolute

3. 03

   Ellen Marsh's herbarium burned in 1911, flooded in 1919, and lost its endowment in 1924, and after each loss she began the collection again from borrowed specimens. She was not fearless: her letters record a steady dread of the field seasons, and her laboratory methods were cautious to the point of tedium. Twice she announced that she was finished with botany, and twice she was back at the drying presses within the year, so no one who knew her would have called her fixed on a single course. What the record does show is a spirit that was simply       — three disasters, and not one of them ended her work.

   AaudaciousBindomitableCintrepidDresolute

4. 04

   Halloran spent eleven years as keeper of the city's land records, and every researcher who used the room has a story about him. He rewrote visitors' citation slips into his own preferred format, reshelved their working piles while they were at lunch, and attached his own reading recommendations to requests that had asked for nothing but a box number. Every document he touched was formally in his charge, so he was never claiming a privilege he had not earned, and in eleven years no one heard him say a discourteous word. He was merely, and endlessly,      .

   AbrazenBofficiousCpertDpresumptuous

Boldness, Courage & Arrogance — 18語18 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 4語 ／ わるい意味 13語 ／ 中立 1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。

4 positive, 13 negative, 1 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.