Feb 15, 2009 Volume 2 -- root, #9(26)

lintelleUID: 2297267

1. Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect ________. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
2. It was consistency that we needed to work on, trying to ______ the way we played and worked in the Champions League on to the Premiership.
3. Simplicity and _____ are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

A) repose
B) transpose
C) component
D) composure
E) decomposition

lintelleUID: 2297267

D) composure
B) transpose
A) repose

ROOT:
pos, pon, posit, post, pound
to place, to set

repose:
–noun 1. the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
2. peace; tranquillity; calm.
3. dignified calmness, as of manner; composure.
4. absence of movement, animation, etc.: When in repose, her face recalls the Mona Lisa.  
–verb (used without object) 5. to lie or be at rest, as from work, activity, etc.
6. to lie dead: His body will repose in the chapel for two days.  
7. to be peacefully calm and quiet: The sea reposed under the tropical sun.  
8. to lie or rest on something.
9. Archaic. to depend or rely on a person or thing.
–verb (used with object) 10. to lay to rest; rest; refresh by rest (often used reflexively).

–verb (used with object), -posed, -pos⋅ing. 1. to put (confidence, trust, etc.) in a person or thing.
2. to put under the authority or at the disposal of a person.
3. Archaic. to deposit.

transpose:
–verb (used with object) 1. to change the relative position, order, or sequence of; cause to change places; interchange: to transpose the third and fourth letters of a word.  
2. to transfer or transport.
3. Algebra. to bring (a term) from one side of an equation to the other, with corresponding change of sign.
4. Mathematics. (of a matrix) to interchange rows and columns.
5. Music. to reproduce in a different key, by raising or lowering in pitch.
6. to transform; transmute.
–verb (used without object) 7. to perform a piece of music in a key other than the one in which it is written: to transpose at sight.  
–noun 8. Mathematics. a matrix formed from a given matrix by transposing.

component:
–noun 1. a constituent part; element; ingredient.
2. a part of a mechanical or electrical system: hi-fi components.  
3. Physics. the projection of a vector quantity, as force or velocity, along an axis.
4. Physical Chemistry. one of the set of the minimum number of chemical constituents by which every phase of a given system can be described.
5. Mathematics. a. a connected subset of a set, not contained in any other connected subset of the set.
b. a coordinate of a vector.

6. Linguistics. a. one of the major subdivisions of a generative grammar: base component; transformational component; semantic component; phonological component. Compare level (def. 16).  
b. a feature determined by componential analysis.

–adjective 7. being or serving as an element (in something larger); composing; constituent: the component parts of a computer system.  

composure:
–noun serene, self-controlled state of mind; calmness; tranquillity: Despite the hysteria and panic around him, he retained his composure.  

decomposition:
–noun 1. the act or process of decomposing.
2. the state of being decomposed; decay.

boytnUID: 177702

D) composure
B) transpose
A) repose

艾惟UID: 2502625

1D
2B
3A