権力と反乱.

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 the decades after the charter was signed, the directors of the trading company began to       powers that the charter reserved for the crown: they minted coins, tried criminal cases, and signed treaties with neighboring states. The historian Marguerite Vale stresses that the crown never formally ceded any of these rights and that the directors never occupied the throne itself. Nor did they turn any of it to their own use: every coin bore the crown's stamp, the court fees went into the crown's treasury, and not an acre of territory passed to the company. What they claimed was the standing to act — they conducted themselves as though an authority they had never been granted had been theirs all along.

   AannexBappropriateCarrogateDusurp

2. 02

   Inscribed tablets recovered from the delta site describe the twelfth-century ruler Ashvaghosha as the       whose fleets controlled every port between the river mouth and the far islands. The archaeologist Rina Devanathan notes that the tablets record the sheer reach of his authority and nothing else: no act of cruelty, no repression of his subjects, and no appeal to the resentments of a crowd, since the throne had come to him by inheritance. Nor were they carved in his lifetime; the shrine that houses them was built four centuries after his death.

   AdemagogueBdespotCincumbentDpotentate

3. 03

   When the valley's drought commission ordered every farm to halve its water use, the order carried a weight that three years of conservation appeals had not. The assembly had voted the commission that power the previous spring, and farmers received the instruction as the commission's       rather than as the personal wish of a single official. Compliance climbed from under a third of farms to nearly nine in ten in one season.

   AcoupBedictCmandateDrequisition

4. 04

   Historians long filed Miguel Arrieta among the wreckers of the 1843 rising, but the pamphlets he wrote tell against that reading. Arrieta wanted the colonial governor replaced by an elected assembly with courts and a treasury of its own — a government to build, not a thing to abolish. He belonged to no party, no faction, and no armed band at any point, before the rising or during it, and his speeches appealed to the tax rolls rather than to any grievance against his neighbors. What the record supports is a narrower label: a man who took the field against the governor's authority without ever meaning to leave the district ungoverned — the district's most determined      .

   AanarchistBdemagogueCinsurgentDpartisan

Power, Rule & Rebellion — 27語27 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 9語 ／ 中立 17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, 9 negative, 17 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.