- Swollen - There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two <u>bulbous</u> eyes stare at you upside down.
"Bulbous" mean something fat, round, or bulging, similar to "Swollen" which is the state of being larger or rounder in size of what something normally is.
- Disappointing - "Better in body perhaps — " I began, and stopped short, for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern, <u>reproachful</u> look that I could not say another word.
Reproachful is an adjective and it's used when something/someone expresses disapproval or disappointment.
- Markedly noticeable - But in the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so—I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure that seems to skulk; lie in wait about behind that silly and <u>conspicuous</u> front design.
Something conspicuous is something obvious to the eye or mind (it easily catches people's attention), something markedly noticeable.
- Bad quality - Looked at in one way each breadth stands alone, the bloated curves and flourishes—a kind of "<u>debased</u> Romanesque" with delirium tremens—go waddling up and down in isolated columns of fatuity.
Debased means degraded, reduced in quality or value.
Answer:
Water travels through the passages in a manner that is similar to water flowing through pipes in a plumbing system.
Explanation:
In the passage, the author has compared the geysers' plumbing system with the underground water-filled boiling water as the movement of the water in passages are similar to the course of water through pipes in the plumbing systems.
The writer in this passage is talking about the fickleness of the geysers. The writer supports it by saying that this fickleness is because of the frequent changes that an underground passage goes through, which is filled with boiling water.
<u>The current of water in both the passages and the pipes are similar, this is why the writer used the reference of 'geysers plumbing system.'</u>
Thus the correct answer is the second option.
This question refers to the text The Flight from Conversation by Sherry Turkle
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Answer:
With this phrase Turkle means that because of technology, we are all alone since every time we share less with people in a physical way and we do it more in a virtual way. But since it's something we all do, she says we're in this together. That's why she uses the phrase <em>"alone together."</em>
Explanation:
These words have a great influence on what the whole article is, since she wants to emphasize that really the vast majority of people are in this situation.
People just want to pay attention to what interests them, ignoring everything that doesn't.
This means that we all get more and more into technology and ignore the people around us, just to communicate virtually.
We are alone, but together at the same time because we remain connected even though we are immersed in technology.
Answer:
King Leopold, by the world "civilization", means European civilization, that is to say, all the economic, social, and political characteristics of the European world at his time.
Things like industry, monarchies, christianity, gunpowder based warfare, are the main characteristics of the European world at the time, and these are the things that King Leopold is referring to by the world "civilization".
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