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Answer:

B. Decrepit

Explanation:

Well, they're asking you for a negative connotation, correct?

If you don't know what a connotation is, it's basically the feeling involved with a word. For example, two words that technically mean the same thing are: stench and aroma. They both mean a smell, but stench has a negative connotation (like you wouldn't say "Her perfume had a gorgeous stench.") and aroma has a positive connotation ("Her perfume had a gorgeous aroma." fits much better).

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So, using inferencing, you want to find a sentence that sounds negative. Let's go through each answer choice together:

-A. Aging

Well, aging is actually a word that has a neutral connotation. It could be used perfectly well in both "Her aging skin sagged" and "Her aging skin still shone". Even if you're not sure about the connotation of aging (it is the only answer choice that doesn't show up in the passage after all), you can skip this one and go look at the others.

-B. Decrepit

Now, this is where we can look at the sentences before and after the word to see if they're being used positively or negatively. We can see that the passage tells us that decrepit is being used by someone who wants to demolish the library. If this isn't enough evidence, the following sentence states that "'It detracts from the downtown.'" Doesn't sound like this guy likes the library very much, huh. Therefore we can rule decrepit as having a negative connotation. We'll still go through the other ones to see why they aren't the answer.

-C. Venerable

Let's look at the sentence venerable is being used in. "'That venerable edifice had many distinguished guests, including a U.S. president.'" They also tell you that the man saying this believes the library should be saved. That's why venerable can be ruled as having a positive or maybe even neutral connotation.

-D. Vintage

Vintage is used in the sentence. "'The library is a historic treasure. It has elements of vintage architecture.'" Calling the library a historic treasure sounds positive, no? That is why vintage will also have a positive/neutral connotation.

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That's all for explanations! I hope your understanding of why the answer is correct has improved after reading my lengthy explanation!

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by H. G. Wells [1898]

But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be

inhabited?…Are we or they Lords of the

World?…And how are all things made for man?—

KEPLER (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)


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CHAPTER ONE: THE EVE OF THE WAR, excerpt


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Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end.


The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the inhabitants of Mars. The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-crowded seas.


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