MIDTERM

Question 1

Poignant

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keenly distressing to the mind or feelings

Question 2

fragmented

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having been divided; having the unity destroyed

Question 3

Oblivious

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lacking conscious awareness of

Question 4

Skeptics

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someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs

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Mediocrity

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quality of being average/ordinary, not outstanding

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Prone

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having a tendency to / lying face downDavid Sarnoff:

Question 7

Malleable

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capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out

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Orthodox

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adhering to what is commonly accepted

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Obsolete

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no longer in use, something that is out of date.

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Stunting

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prevent from growing or developing properly.

Question 11

Befuddled

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confused, lost, mixed-up. perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment

Question 12

Haphazard

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random, disorganized

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Conduit

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a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass

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Affliction

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a cause of great suffering and distress

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Superfluous

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more than is needed, desired, or required

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Juncture

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crucial point in time when a decision must be made, the shape/manner in which things come together

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Symbiotic

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used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relation beneficial to each 共生的

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Aberration

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a state or condition markedly different from the norm

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Heretics

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a person who holds (religious) beliefs in conflict with official dogma

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Inherent

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existing as a natural and permanent quality of something or someone

Question 21

Poignant

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“HAL pleads with the impalcable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly ___ scene”

Question 22

fragmented

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“Our isolated, ___ selves, locked for centuries in the private reading of printed pages…”

Question 23

Oblivious

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“He was also sounding a warning about the threat the power poses - and the risk of being ____ to that threat.”

Question 24

Skeptics

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“Enthusiasts celebrate it: ___ decry it.”

Question 25

Mediocrity

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"golden age of access and participation and the latter bemoaning a new dark age of ___ and narcissism."

Question 26

Prone

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"'We are too ___ to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them."

Question 27

Malleable

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" Our neurons would connect into circuits during childhood, when our brains were ___"

Question 28

Orthodox

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In his younger days, Ramón y Cajal had himself expressed doubts about the ___ view—he had suggested, in 1894, that the “organ of thought is, within certain limits, malleable

Question 29

Obsolete

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"Consciousness was simply a by-product of those operatios. 'The word Mind is ___,'"

Question 30

Stunting

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"it ended up __our overall view of human nature"

Question 31

Befuddled

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" 2001 is having its first theatrical run, leaving moviegoers ____, bemused, or just plain annoyed"

Question 32

Haphazard

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"The nerves in the monkeys’ hands grow back in a____ fashion, as expected, and their brains, also as expected, become confused"

Question 33

Conduit

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"The Net has become my all-purpose medium, the ___ for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and.."

Question 34

Affliction

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"Many say they're suffering from similar ___"

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Superfluous

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"As soon as you learn to be 'a skilled hunter' online, he argues, books become ___"

Question 36

Juncture

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"We seemed to have arrived.. at an important __ in our intellectual and cultural history."

Question 37

Symbiotic

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" a true ___ relationship between man and computer"

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Aberration

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"Maybe I'm an __, an outlier."

Question 39

Heretics

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"Although the belief in the adult brain’s immutability was deeply and widely held, there were a few ____"

Question 40

Inherent

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"Saenger writes; “even readers of modest intellectual capacity could read more swiftly, and they could understand an increasing number of____ly more difficult texts.”