Hey Four I's! I'd Like a Word With You (Part 7) Quiz

Answer: Repealability

Repealability implies something that can be repealed, undone or indeed reversed. Repealability is the ability to be reversed, it has reversibility and is therefore the opposite of irreversibility. The other words, Ineffaceability, Indelibility, and Irremediability all also mean the same as Irreversibility, and are therefore synonyms.

Answer: Politicizing

"Politicizing" refers to when a group or organization, or political party makes something a political issue, involving it in political debate or activity, when the reality isn't necessarily the case. It implies that an issue, event, or topic (such as a natural disaster or public health crisis) is being framed or debated in a way that serves a political agenda, rather than being addressed objectively or neutrally for what it simply is.

Answer: Indistinctive

Nondescript implies that something is lacking distinctive features, traits, or characteristics. This is also what "indistinctive" means--an adjective describing something that lacks distinctive or unique features. It is something unremarkable, not memorable, or hard to distinguish from other things. It suggests something that is ordinary, bland, or forgettable.

Answer: prone to laughter

Risibility comes from the 14th century French word "risible" which in turn derives from the Latin "risibilis" meaning "laughable, or able to laugh." You might say that someone who giggles a lot has a readiness to laugh, or "risibility."

Answer: Intimidation

Justice O'Connor was asked if there was any one observation of our society that motivated her to create the Our Courts website [now known as iCivics.org], and she responded with that statement, adding "and sanctions" to "more destructive intimidation." In that 2009 interview with journalist Marianne Schnall, Justice O'Connor said she was concerned about the growing number of attacks on courts and judges.

She wasn't saying that judges are above criticism nor that people shouldn't debate judicial decisions, but she was concerned about attacks that were "more vitriolic" than any she had ever seen in her lifetime.

Answer: Eligibility

Redshirting is when a player is removed from the varsity team in order to add a year to his or her eligibility; in essence, delaying their participation in competitive games for a year, but still being allowed to practice with the team and go to classes. Redshirting spreads the student's athletic eligibility over five academic years, but he/she may only compete athletically in four of those five years.

Answer: Mr. Bennett in "Pride and Prejudice"

In Chapter 41 of Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice", Mr. Bennet wittily tosses off this remark in response to Mrs. Bennet's complaints about the behavior of their daughters and other people. She laments what she observes as a lack of civility in their own household as well as society at large.

But Mr. Bennett suggests that perhaps it's a bit like what I think nowadays many people have joked about in ascribing the rude behavior of school children to each other as being a sign they have a crush on a school mate. The other characters listed are from different Jane Austen novels than the ones they are matched with.

Answer: Liabilities

Nehru was conveying the idea that when one adopts the same tactics that one's enemy uses, one risks losing a moral high ground and also inherits the same weaknesses and challenges that the enemy faces. It will wind up compromising one's own principles and values, and can damage credibility and moral authority. The danger of losing one's allies also looms if they take a look at one's behavior and think, "Well maybe they're not the principled people we were led to believe."

Answer: Extremely small

The word "Infinitesimal" is used to describe something that is extremely tiny.
Etymologically, it derives from the Latin "infinitesimus," meaning "infinitely small" and from "infinitus" meaning infinite. In mathematics, infinitesimals are quantities as close to zero as possible without actually reaching zero. It was the basis of calculus which was developed by mathematicians like Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Answer: Nihilistic philosophy

The term "nihilistic" refers to a philosophical or existential opinion that rejects traditional beliefs, or values, positing instead that life does not have an inherent purpose, or meaning. Nietzsche wasn't 100% onboard with the philosophy which he saw more as a phase in the evolution of human thought and culture.

He felt that the decline of traditional religious morals in the modern world would lead to a crisis of searching for meaning, which he called "nihilism" from the German "Nihilismus", derived from the Latin "nihil" meaning "nothing at all." Fyodor Dostoevsky feared the younger generation's growing attraction to nihilistic philosophy, and depicted the consequences of it as destructive.

His "Crime and Punishment" is a prime example as the protagonist Raskolnikov's nihilism led him to murder a pawnbroker, and then suffer guilt over rejecting morals.