A. Stupidity
B. Silliness
C. Pain
D. Intelligence
Related Mcqs:
- It was about this time that I conceiv’d the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wish’d to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of more difficulty than I had imagined. … I included under Thirteen names of Virtues all that at that time occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable, and annex’d to each a short Precept, which fully express’d the Extent I gave to its Meaning ?
A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact - The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon_____________?
A. A European fairy tale
B. A local ghost story
C. An Indian legend
D. A European ghost story - The substitution of the aspirated /k/ for the un__aspirated /k/ in the word ‘sky’ does not alter the meaning of the worD. It is an instance of ______________ ?
A. Complementary distribution
B. Contrastive distribution
C. Non__complementary distribution
D. None of the above - The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes – and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his art and influence and authority, to unite the tribes for the extirpation of the dangerous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary, averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no danger from them, was the advocate of a hospitable reception, and pacific conduct. What does “extirpation” mean ?
A. Execution
B. Going to extremes
C. Extermination
D. Expatriating - One of the potential disadvantages of this approach to literature is that it can reduce meaning to a certain time frame, rather than making it universal throughout the ages ?
A. Formalist
B. Historical
C. Feminist
D. Mimetic - ______________involves a different analysis of the structure of the word by attaching a consonant at the end of a word or a vowel at the beginning of the next word ?
A. Portmanteau
B. Onomatopoeia
C. Clipping
D. Met analysis - In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues; while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. What is the meaning of the word audacity ?
A. Fearless daring or aggressive boldness
B. Auditory city
C. Authority
D. Insanity or dementia - Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. What is the meaning of the word “hoar” ?
A. Scarred
B. Grey or white with age
C. Ancient or venerable
D. Wrinkled with age - It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?
A. A bird
B. A small mountain lake
C. A wide river
D. A high cliff - ____________is a monosyllabic vowel combination of a diphthong and a the weak vowel?
A. Triaphthong
B. Triaphone
C. Triphthong
D. Triology
