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Harm, Danger & Ruin

帰国子女・インターナショナルスクール生のための、デジタルSAT の無料単語教材。独学で進められます。

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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

    In 1884 the directors of the Meridian Survey Company sent a mapping party into the Kessel Basin in the wrong season, overruling three written warnings from their own surveyors. The team ran short of supplies within a month and had to be rescued at public expense while newspapers printed daily updates. Historians of the region treat the episode as a       rather than a disaster: nothing about the terrain was unknown, and every miscalculation had been predicted in advance.

  2. 02

    Between 1890 and 1910 a wood-boring beetle moved through the hardwood forests of the eastern uplands at roughly fifty kilometers a year, killing stands that had grown for centuries. Mill towns built around the timber trade emptied within a generation, and soil that the old roots had held began washing into the rivers. Foresters of the period called the outbreak a      , since its damage was never confined to a single tree or a single valley.

  3. 03

    Workers in the enamel shops of the 1920s handled a solvent that caused no burning, no rash, and no immediate complaint. Follow-up studies of those same workers thirty years later found that their lung capacity had declined faster than that of a matched group who never entered the shops. The solvent, the researchers concluded, was      : no single day of exposure injured anyone, but the cumulative effect over decades proved measurable and permanent.

  4. 04

    A pamphlet that circulated in the port district in March of that year named no target and proposed no plan, yet within a week crowds had set fire to two customs houses. Historians still disagree about who wrote it, but not about what it was for: the language was      , chosen to provoke exactly the kind of violence that followed.

Harm, Danger & Ruin — 21語21 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 1語 / わるい意味 19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。

1 positive, 19 negative, 1 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.

語Word向き+/−強さStrength意味Meaning
adverse adj−●working against you; unfavorable — 不利な
bane n−●●●a source of ruin or constant misery — 災いの元
benign adj+●harmless; mild rather than threatening — 無害な・良性のinnocuous も無害という意味ですが、benign は温厚・良性という肯定的な響きを持ちます。innocuous only tells you a thing does no harm; benign adds a positive sense of being mild and reassuring, which is why a growth or a climate can be called benign but not innocuous.
blight n−●●●a disease or force that destroys — 荒廃させる害bane は個人を苦しめる元凶、blight は広がって全体を荒廃させる力です。bane is the one thing that ruins a particular person's life; blight spreads and lays waste to a whole crop, city or generation.
calamity n−●●●a disaster — 大災難
conflagration n−●●●a huge destructive fire — 大火災
debacle n−●●●a total, humiliating failure — 惨めな大失敗calamity は災害そのもの、debacle は人が招いた恥ずべき大失敗です。calamity is a disaster that happens to people; debacle is a failure people bring on themselves and are humiliated by.
deface v−●to spoil the appearance of something — 外観を汚す
deleterious adj−●●quietly harmful over time — 徐々に有害pernicious は破壊的な害、deleterious は健康や環境にじわじわ効く中程度の害です。pernicious and deleterious both do their damage quietly, but pernicious ends up destroying what it works on while deleterious only wears down health or the environment over time.
derelict adj−●●abandoned and falling apart — 廃墟同然の
exacerbate v−●●to make a bad thing worse — 悪化させる
grievous adj−●●serious enough to cause real damage — 重大な痛手
incendiary adj−●●likely to start a fire or a riot — 扇動的・放火のconflagration は火事そのもの、incendiary は火や騒ぎを起こす側を指します。conflagration is the blaze itself; incendiary is what sets a fire or a riot going.
innocuous adj0●harmless — 無害な・当たり障りのない
insidious adj−●●harmful in a way that creeps up on you — 知らぬ間に蝕むpernicious と近いですが、insidious は気づかせない狡猾さを強調します。pernicious says how destructive the harm is; insidious says how well it hides itself while it spreads, so you notice only once it has taken hold.
liability n−●a burden or risk you are stuck with — お荷物・負債
noxious adj−●●unwholesome and damaging — 有毒な
onerous adj−●●heavily burdensome — 負担が重い
pernicious adj−●●●quietly destructive — 静かに破壊的
quagmire n−●●a situation that traps you the more you struggle — 泥沼
raze v−●●●to level a building to the ground — 更地にする
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おぼえた語を、実際の設問で選べるようにする手順です。向きと強さで絞る練習をここでします。