Word of the Day:
Idiosyncratic --- Having highly individual qualities and characteristics (this is a word you will actually see used a lot so know it!)
My sister is an idiosyncratic artist, so she needs to find a partner who can let her be herself and deal with all her odd habits.
Question of the Day:
Today's question is from the Critical Reading section... Choose the word that best fits the meaning of the sentence...
The professor asked the students to make sure they read the entire novel, both the twelve regular chapters and the extensive ----- materials that the author included at the beginning of the book.
a) proleptic
b) redacted
c) prefatory
d) orthographic
e) conjunctive
So you want to start here by first reading the sentence and coming up with a word that you yourself would use. At first glance, I thought the word would be an adjective that describes the materials as being background info or detailed, historic info, etc. Then I read it again and I noticed the "at the beginning of the book"...
Suppose you have no clue in the word as to what the five words there mean. Well where do you start? I thought to myself that the prefix "pre-" means coming before something and since here we were dealing with material at the beginning of the book that might work. Then when I looked at the word "prefatory," I realized that it sounded a lot like preface, which most of you know is the part at the beginning of all your books that you hope the teacher does not assign! And so it clicked and sure enough C was the right answer!
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