Hey Four I's! I'd Like a Word With You (Part 2) Quiz

Answer: Artificiality

To be disingenuous is to be insincere, to behave kind of "fakey" the kids might say today. Artificiality would be what a disingenuous person exhibits in his behavior, acting in perhaps an affected way. It is rooted in the Latin "artificialis", meaning "belonging to art." It's easy to see how one of the subtle meanings of artificial could be colored in a way that is "not sincere," but has been manufactured for a certain effect.

Answer: Disabilities

The Americans with Disabilities Act, aka ADA, was a landmark civil rights law legislated in order to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities, ensuring that they have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. The Act has undergone various amendments, in particular, one in 2008 which broadened the definition of what a disability can be.

Answer: Misinforming

Familiarizing means making something known, to yourself or to someone else. It is rooted in the late 17th century French "familiariser" meaning "to make acquainted with". Misinforming is the opposite of that in that it entails deceiving someone, or making something inaccurately perceived.

Answer: Impossibility

The Russian writer Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy is the source of this quote found in "Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910" published by Athlone Press in 1978. In a letter to his friend and fellow writer, Mikhail Shchepkin, "The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life" reflects his philosophy about personal changes, moral changes.

He insists that real change originates from a deep feeling of necessity instead of simply deciding on a superficially rote intellectual level, that one ought to resolve to do it.

Answer: "The Pledge of Allegiance", by Francis Bellamy

While "indivisible" appears in "The Pledge of Allegiance", by Francis Bellamy, it does not appear in the other three. "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" was written in August 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855-1931), an American Christian socialist Baptist minister, and first appeared in the children's magazine, "The Youth's Companion".

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Emerson was suggesting that people should balance their resolve and self-reliant principles with an amiable "good-natured" attitude. He felt people should avoid an intolerant demeanor in order be a conduit for honest, intelligent, and civil discourse. He doesn't want inflexibility to be confused with dogma; he wants people to be able to successfully walk that tightrope of social interaction as they balance firmly sticking to their authentic perspectives with the opinions of others who might be exerting social pressure.

Answer: Blandness

Insipidity means lacking in taste or qualities that would be interesting to a person. The state of being unstimulating or posing a complete lack of a challenge. Boring, dreary, and commonplace are amongst other possible synonyms. "Insipid" derives from the Latin "insipidus" meaning "tasteless."

Answer: Legitimizing

Disprivileging is rooted in the Latin privilegium, meaning "law applying to one person." Politicizing is rooted in the Latin politicus, meaning "of citizens or the state." Illegibility sprang from illegible which is rooted in the Latin legibilis, meaning "that can be read." Legitimizing is rooted in the Latin legitimus, meaning "lawful" or "legitimate".

Answer: Philistinism

Anti-Philistinism is a critique of those people with an attitude that lacks an appreciation of art, culture, and intellectual pursuits. Such people are sometimes associated with valuing material wealth and goods over ethical or spiritual matters, rejecting the arts and intellectual conversation. In his 1869 work, "Culture and Anarchy", Matthew Arnold popularized the term "Philistines" as a label for Victorian England's middle class, referring to them as "slaves to routine".

Answer: 63

A quintillion is a 1 followed by 18 zeros represented as: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. A vigintillion
in British terminology, a vigintillion is a 1 followed by 120 zeros, that is, 10 to the 120th power.
The cardinal number vigintillion is represented in the United States as 1 followed by 63 zeros, or 10 to the 63rd power, or....The number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. The word "vigintillion" derives from the Latin "viginti," for "twenty."