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Mercy Jhansi Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary
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It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever (i) __________ others: in the end, all his (ii) _________ has only worked against him.
Blank (i)
A. Consigning
B. Exalting
C. Elevating
Blank (ii)
D. Self-possession
E. self-analysis
F. self-adulation
I got no idea what the answers are and what the sentence means. To guess, I would say the answers might be A and E. Are they correct?
Blank (i)
A. Consigning
B. Exalting
C. Elevating
Blank (ii)
D. Self-possession
E. self-analysis
F. self-adulation
I got no idea what the answers are and what the sentence means. To guess, I would say the answers might be A and E. Are they correct?
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I would put A and F. I interpret the first part of the sentence to mean that he was very vain, rather than that he criticized vanity in others.
- I would put A and F.
- I interpret the first part of the sentence to mean that he was very vain, rather than that he criticized vanity in others.
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I would put A and F. I interpret the first part of the sentence to mean that he was very vain, rather than that he criticized vanity in others.
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Thanks for the answers! Yet, I haven't got the meaning of the sentence. What was he consigning to others?
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It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever consigning others: in the end, all his self-adulation has only worked against him.
Oblivion here means the state of being forgotten. The sentence means he was very vain and self important, and caused, or tried to cause, others to be ignored
Oblivion here means the state of being forgotten. The sentence means he was very vain and self important, and caused, or tried to cause, others to be ignored
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Thanks, I can understand whatever you have said. I couldn't understand this part of the sentence: 'to which he was forever consigning others'. What does consigning mean here?
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Consigning here means to put someone or something into an undesirable place or situation.
In some contexts it can mean to put something somewhere in order to get it out of the way, or to get rid of it. It can mean to send something somewhere.
In some contexts it can mean to put something somewhere in order to get it out of the way, or to get rid of it. It can mean to send something somewhere.
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