Okay! Now we’re talkin’.
Remember the Test of Words? Okay, so the answers are here and I feel vindicated.
The chick with the answers.
So, I missed ONE point on the Intermediate Section (I chose “hard” instead of “difficult,” which is a synonym… but the context thing. Okay, I get it. One point for me instead of two on number 14.
On the Expert Section, I missed a point b/c I chose ONE in 36 and 38 instead of choosing BOTH (damn that quote in Animal House from Dean Wormer’s wife in the produce section… she steered me wrong). And on 40, I went with both. I understand channel/canal stumped quite a few folks.
Anyway… thrilled to see the answers. Thanks, Red, for putting them up.
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She is just wrong on the nauseated/nauseous one. If we’re going to be all loosey-goosey about such, why have a quiz at all?
I agree with, Hillary. Ever since I learned the diff between nauseated/nauseous I have been a stickler. I also attempt to differentiate between angry/mad but I forget to lots of times.
Webster’s disagrees with you, Chip:
nauseous: 1) causing nausea or disgust: nauseating 2) affected with nausea or disgust . . . USAGE: Those who insist that “nauseous” can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: “nauseous” is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usu. after a linking verb such as “feel” or “become”; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent. Use of “nauseous” in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to “nauseating.” “Nauseated” is used more widely than “nauseous” in sense 2.
And so forth, ad nauseum.