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Jeff_999 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Analogy/ STRIDENCY: SOUND

STRIDENCY: SOUND::
A. fluidity: liquid
B. graininess texture
C. garishness: appearance
D. variegation: color
E. aroma: odor


Is the reason why the answer is C instead of E or others that both "stridency" and "garishness" imply the "excessiveness"? Thank you.
  

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'Excessiveness' is a pretty good word for the relation between the pair of words.. Excessive to the point of unpleasantness.

— Davkett

  • 'Excessiveness' is a pretty good word for the relation between the pair of words..
  • Excessive to the point of unpleasantness.
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'Excessiveness' is a pretty good word for the relation between the pair of words.. Excessive to the point of unpleasantness.
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I think 'unpleasantness' is really the main thing.

A sound can really get on a person's nerves if it's strident.
The stridency of a sound can make you cover your ears to avoid hearing it.
Likewise, the appearance of a thing can really get on the nerves if it's garish.
The garishness of a piece of clothing or a painting, say, can make you avert your gaze to avoid seein
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"Unpleasantness' is certainly the first word that came to my mind, too, CJ. However, I thought, with the given selection of word-pairs, 'excessiveness' allowed Jeff to effectively eliminate all the others. If, for instance, 'outrage: anger' had been in the list, 'excessiveness' would not have been a precise enough clue.
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Emotion: smileThank you, Dav, CJ. Thank you so much.
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