LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers: ROSES

  1. Rapport (from French rapporter, to bring back) means a relationship or connection, especially a favorable one—as a teacher would try to establish with students.
  2. Oracular (from Latin oraculum, divine announcement) means infallible, prophetic, as revealed from above—his oracular statements often proved entirely wrong.
  3. Sargasso is a kind of floating yellow seaweed. The name may have come from Portugese sarga, a type of grape, because the seaweed has grape-sized air sacs.
  4. To exonerate (from Latin exonerare, to unburden) means to declare blameless, to free of charges. The English teacher charged with overuse of the pluperfect subjunctive was exonerated by the panel of politicians.
  5. A singularity, in astronomy, is a point of infinite density and infinitesimal volume—everything in the universe is packed into one tiny point, as just before the big bang, and perhaps at the center of black holes.
Posted by Dave at 8/17/2011 4:31 PM
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