Dec 17, 2008 Volume 1 -- prefix, #3 (3)

lintelleUID: 2297267

The moderator will post one multiple choice question everyday, and post the answer key and detailed explanation to the very question on the 2nd floor of the thread on the next day. Participants should try to answer the question in the following 24 hours after the questions are posted. First 3 people with the correct answer will be rewarded 5 GTB.

The multiple choice questions are mainly designed to build up your vocabulary, sometimes idiom questions will emerge as well.


1. Travelling in Europe was something of an _____  after the years he'd spent in Africa.
2. Students finishing their education at 16 is the very _______ of what society needs.
A) anticlimax
B) antipathy
C) antihero
D) antipersonnel
E) antithesis


[ 本帖最后由 lintelle 于 2008-12-17 10:50 编辑 ]

lintelleUID: 2297267

1. A) anticlimax
2. E) antithesis

anti-: opposed to, the opposite of

anticlimax:
a situation that is disappointing because it happens at the end of something that was much more exciting, or because it's not as exciting as you expected.

antipathy:
a strong feeling of dislike

antihero:
the main character in a story, but one who does not have the qualities of a typical hero, and is either more like an ordinary person or is very unpleasant

antipersonnel:
[only before noun] (of weapons) designed to kill or injure people, not to destroy buildings or vehicles, etc.

antithesis:
1. the opposite of something
2. a contrast between two things

[ 本帖最后由 lintelle 于 2008-12-18 11:06 编辑 ]

Dance_4uUID: 2340664

1. A
2. E

lintelleUID: 2297267

correct:)