The highlighted part is the answer The theremin is one of the earliest electronic musical instruments and is distinct as it is played without any form of physical contact between the musician and the instrument.
The instrument has an unusual appearance and consists of two metal antennas.
Answer:
D. Explanation.
Explanation:
Context clues help us understand what the sentence is talking about. And in that way, there are various context clues that can help decipher the objective of writing anything.
In the given sentence, the word to be understood is "chary". Now, in order to get to understand or try to get what the word means, we can look for the explanation of that word. In getting what that given word means, we will be able to understand what the speaker is talking about.
So, looking for the explanation of the word 'chary', we find that it means careful, cautious, reluctant, etc. This gives us an easy understanding of what the sentence means.
Thus, the correct answer is option D.
"And on the point now in question seems to be altogether blind and babbling" seems to sum up the opinion of the ancient Greeks and their studies of processes like the motion of matter perhaps because at that time of history of the classical learning much of it was based on pure speculation without going out and getting one's hands dirty and really perceiving phenomena with one's 5 senses as Georgius Agricola did in going down in underground mines to find out firsthand how mining was carried out.
Answer:
1.smiled, grinned
2. lucky, favored
3. mocked, scoffed
4. soaked, drenched
5. happy, elated
Explanation: Denotation is the literal meaning of the word;
in 1. both words include a smile;
in 2. both words include some type of luck;
in 3. there is mockery involved;
in 4. both words denote something wet;
in 5. there is happiness involved.
