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GRE vocabulary exercise 3

GRE vocabulary quiz

Some words have multiple meanings. You need to choose the appropriate meaning based on the contextual usage of the word. 

Gather the meaning of these words (highlighted) from context..



His trekking companions, the troubled Rimigio and the artistic-minded Nicola, both gain walk-on parts, as does Sete, the journey’s ever-patient guide. Yet the central character is Cognetti himself, who, when not debilitated by altitude sickness, spends most of his time in contemplative mood. Pages pass in a gentle, languid flow of Matthiessen-inspired reflections and observations. Every now and then, a personal gem pops up, like the idea of flags giving shape to wind’s invisibility or that hiking the hills has gained nothing from modernity – Gore-tex-lined boots aside; but Cognetti’s mind is attracted to a more whimsical, open-ended strain of thought. “The gaze of those who cross the desert is directed within”, he writes; “somewhere was the snow leopard, to remind me that not everything that exists is visible”.

1. Whimsical………………….

2. Debilitated………………..

3. Contemplative…………

4. Languid…………….

 

The image of Symons as a disorientated, faintly ridiculous relic of the 1890s has been hard to s shift. This wretched denouement hangs over him, alongside what, to contemporary ears, can sound like misogyny or creepiness in his early poetry, making it difficult to assess the broader significance of his long, prolific and varied career as as one of the first truly modern voices in British poetry.

5. disorientate……..

6.wretched………

7.contemporary………

8. misogyny………

9. assess………

10. prolific………

 

Only Silhouettes and London Nights are republished in full in Selected Early Poems. They are set in the context of pieces from Days and Nights, Amoris Victima (1897) and Images of Good and Evil (1900) with useful but unobtrusive notes from Desmarais and Baldick. The scope of this selection is a panacea to the cherry-picking that defines the presence of Symons in the critical imagination and it produces several revelations. For instance, it shows us that with-out the West Country he had claimed to dislike, there would be for Symons no London. In London Nights an "Intermezzo" of seven poems interrupts kaleidoscopic London with the muted colours and lingering quiet hours of "the mist-enfolded lanes" and "bracken, softly enveloping".  

11. republished.…

12. unobstrusive……….

13. panacea……….

14. revelation……..

15. lingering.………

16. enveloping ………….

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