なだめと緩和.

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 Mireille Okonjo first proposed that the pigments in the cave's lower gallery had been applied over several centuries rather than in a single season, her colleagues were skeptical. Only after she published radiocarbon dates from three separate charcoal layers did her evidence       the doubts that had greeted the claim. Even then, Okonjo conceded, the method could not settle every question about the gallery.

   AallayBalleviateCmitigateDmollify

2. 02

   The Palace Theater had been scheduled for demolition in March, and the preservation society assumed the ruling was final. In February, however, a judge ordered the wrecking crews to stand down for eighteen months while the city reviewed its permits. The order brought the society no rest whatever: its volunteers spent those months in weekly hearings, and the demolition contract was never cancelled. What the building had won was a       rather than a pardon: the sentence of destruction was postponed, not lifted.

   AclemencyBconsolationCreprieveDrespite

3. 03

   After the 1889 mine collapse, a young company clerk named Edmund Harrow spent three weeks writing to the family of every man who had died underground. He never claimed that his letters lightened anyone's grief. A formal       was all that convention asked of a company man, and he offered nothing warmer.

   AcondolenceBconsolationCforbearanceDrespite

4. 04

   Dr. Ines Barros spent the 1920s documenting the courtyard tenements on the city's south side, where four families often shared a single tap. The charity workers of the period brought blankets and coal, which carried individual households through bad winters. Barros insisted that such gifts left the buildings exactly as they were, and that only new plumbing codes could       the conditions that had produced the hardship in the first place.

   AallayBameliorateCassuageDmollify

Soothing, Easing & Relief — 24語24 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 16語 ／ わるい意味 1語 ／ 中立 7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。

16 positive, 1 negative, 7 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.