Another brain storage tickler, thank you! Would you consider accepting 'squalidity' and/or 'squalidness' for "sordid dirtiness"? Believe it or not, I tried them first. The type-in you've got is certainly the most elegant answer, but the other forms are still correct, however ill-advised :)
I rattled through the other two quizzes in the series with no problem, which gave me a false sense of infallibility. Then I couldn't think of three words in this one - should have worked out two of those, but the third (the last in the quiz) I'd somehow never encountered.
It took me a while to come up with that one also. I've seen manumission (I think in a Thomas Jefferson biography) used for that same meaning, but I wasn't familiar with the word in the quiz.
The answer calls for a noun. Most of the quizzes on this site are very generous with type-ins. I think it's a nice change of pace (and appropriate for this quiz) that the answers need to be exact.
A palpitation is a sensation of feeling your heart-beat, which may be due to a fast heart rate, but is not always. As it stands, the definition is incorrect.
Yes, that's why it's pretty much always used in the plural. You wouldn't use palpitation (singular) unless you really wanted to refer to one beat in a fancy way :)
A palpitation is a single heart beat; that is it. However if you are talking about the repeating pattern of the heart beat (i.e. more than a single beat), which is what you did - because you described the ongoing pattern (you said RAPID), you are referring to more than a single beat. Hence your answer has to also refer to more than a single heart beat, and be PALPITATIONS. Please pluralise your answer.
I was typing 'viticulturist' and wondering why it wasn't working. Now I know that a viticulturist is concerned with growing grapes, still very important in wine making, but not correct.
I feel like chagrin should be defined slightly differently? Less on the embarrassment, more on the sadness side? Or is that me wrongfully applying its meaning in French to its meaning in English?
Thank you to my old high school, which insisted I enter the stream that included French and Latin. Really rather useful in daily life, but an absolute slam-dunk in quizzes like this.
That is an incorrect definition of palpitations, however. Like other commenters have noted, the word "palpitations" refers to the sensation of your heart doing something odd, the awareness of it -- be it racing or skipping a beat. It's not just a rapid heartbeat and it's not explaining what the heart is actually doing.
(it's from the latin palpare - to feel/touch)
That is an incorrect definition of palpitations, however. Like other commenters have noted, the word "palpitations" refers to the sensation of your heart doing something odd, the awareness of it -- be it racing or skipping a beat. It's not just a rapid heartbeat and it's not explaining what the heart is actually doing.