敵意と対立.

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 nineteenth-century botanists published competing descriptions of the same orchid, the disagreement was at first merely technical. Nyholm dropped the matter within a season; Fenn did not. For the next thirty years he opened nearly every public lecture with a remark about his rival's carelessness, and his letters returned to the old dispute long after both men's classifications had been discarded by the field — and long after Nyholm himself had died. Fenn was explicit in those letters that he wished his rival no harm and thought well of him as a man; it was the dispute itself he could not let go. Historians now treat the       he nursed for three decades as the most revealing fact of his career.

   AacrimonyBenmityCrancorDumbrage

2. 02

   Rehearsal diaries kept by members of the Halvers Orchestra sketch a consistent portrait of its longtime conductor, who was by every account      . A misplaced music stand or a late entrance could touch off an outburst lasting the better part of an hour. The storm arrived without preamble — he grumbled about nothing beforehand and warned of nothing — and once it had passed he bore the offending player no grudge whatever. Several diarists note that in twenty years he never picked a quarrel with the board or with a guest soloist.

   AirascibleBpugnaciousCquerulousDvindictive

3. 03

   The archive's original submission form asked depositors for six pieces of metadata and was regarded, at worst, as a minor nuisance. The version introduced in 2011 asked for forty-one, rejected any file whose name contained a space, and returned no explanation when it failed. Within a year the new form had begun to       even the archive's most patient depositors: three of the longest-serving members of the advisory panel resigned rather than complete another submission.

   AaccostBassailCexasperateDvex

4. 04

   Ida Wolcott's 1904 pamphlet on tenement fire codes is often read as the work of a woman settling a private score, but her notebooks suggest otherwise. Wolcott owned no property in the district and had lost no relative in the fires. What moved her to write, the notebooks show, was a single discovery: inspectors had been certifying stairwells they had never climbed. The pamphlet's lasting force is therefore not the force of injury but of      , aroused by proof that a system had taken public money to declare buildings safe without ever looking at them.

   AantipathyBindignationCpetulanceDumbrage

Hostility, Anger & Conflict — 28語28 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 0語 ／ わるい意味 25語 ／ 中立 3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。

0 positive, 25 negative, 3 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.