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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 two herbaria both claimed the Patagonian specimens gathered in 1908, their curators braced for years of litigation. Instead, the lawyers drew up a division of the collection that both institutions signed within a month. Historians of botany now cite the       settlement as evidence that a dispute over ownership need not harden into a feud: the two curators never became friends, and their letters remained stiffly professional to the end.

   AaffableBamiableCamicableDcongenial

2. 02

   Scholars who study polar expedition journals usually hunt for evidence of private friendships, but the diaries kept at the Ross Island station through the winter of 1934 resist that approach. No two men are singled out as inseparable; what the entries record instead is the       that ran through all eleven members of the party, sustained by shared chores, shared rations, and a nightly round of songs. The bond was strong, one historian argues, precisely because it belonged to no one pair.

   AaffinityBcamaraderieCconfidantDrapport

3. 03

   Priority disputes in nineteenth-century chemistry were seldom settled gracefully, which is why Hoffmeister's conduct toward Vahl still startles readers. Vahl had circulated Hoffmeister's unpublished notes under his own name, and the older chemist had every ground for protest; yet when the academy asked for his comment, Hoffmeister withdrew his own claim and recommended Vahl for the prize. Colleagues who despised Vahl thought the gesture excessively      , though they granted that no kindness lay behind it: Hoffmeister never sought the man's company again and wished him no good fortune, and he said only that the work mattered more than the credit.

   AaccommodatingBaffableCbenevolentDmagnanimous

4. 04

   Visitors to the observatory in the 1890s left oddly divided accounts of its director, Elena Marsh. At receptions for foreign astronomers she was unfailingly      : she greeted every guest by name, asked after the journey, and saw the party to the door herself. More than one visitor noticed, though, that nothing in her manner went past what the occasion required — she laughed at no one's joke and volunteered nothing about herself — and her assistants record that she took her meals alone, declined every invitation from the town, and returned to the dome the moment protocol allowed.

   AconvivialBcordialCgenialDgregarious

Friendliness, Kindness & Tolerance — 17語17 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 15語 ／ わるい意味 0語 ／ 中立 2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。

15 positive, 0 negative, 2 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.