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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

   Sorting the entries in a nineteenth-century poet's commonplace book, the editor Marianne Feld found that every entry was short; the ruled columns of the book allowed nothing longer than two lines, and no entry — starred or unstarred — carries a wasted word. What set apart the entries the poet had starred, Feld argues, was neither their length nor their economy. A starred line could carry the whole of an argument about grief that his published verse needs thirty lines to reach. The narrow page imposed brevity on every entry alike; the       line was the poet's own achievement.

   AlaconicBpithyCsuccinctDtaciturn

2. 02

   The apprentice notebooks kept at the Hartsfield print shop between 1830 and 1844 say little about the printing itself. What fills them is the master's evening      : forty minutes, most nights, on what the boys' carelessness with paper had cost the shop and would cost them as men. He addressed no one but the six apprentices at his bench, and he never raised his voice; in fourteen years of entries not one boy records him angry, and the shop around him stayed silent until he had finished.

   AclamorBharangueCorationDtirade

3. 03

   Historians who read the anonymous pamphlets of the 1790s looking for the accusation often find none. In the Kesterling pamphlet of 1794 the damage is done by a single      : one line wondering aloud how a clerk on a customs salary had come to furnish so fine a house on Cross Street. No charge is stated and no story is told; the sentence is as short as any in the pamphlet. Yet no reader of the period missed what it meant about the clerk's honesty.

   AanecdoteBcircumlocutionCinnuendoDintimation

4. 04

   In April 1712 the selectmen of Greymoor chose to       the town's first fire ordinance from the courthouse steps. The clerk read it aloud once, word for word as it had been drafted, and it took effect that hour; the town had never had such a rule before. Copies were not printed for another six years, and most households learned of the ordinance only when a neighbor was fined under it.

   AdisseminateBemendCpromulgateDrecapitulate

Speech & Writing Style — 41語41 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 4語 ／ わるい意味 17語 ／ 中立 20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。

4 positive, 17 negative, 20 neutral. Strength is ranked within this theme only — the numbers are not comparable across themes.