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Lucrezia Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

Sufficiently replete

A little girl is scared of everything - dark, vacuum-cleaners, drains.
"While the drain would hardly leap out and bite her, she was sufficiently replete with dread to have plenty left over for dangers that could. There was one thing in our house of which she might have been justifiably afraid, and she adored him."

Which is it:

1. She was so full of dread that she did have plenty left for the real dangers (she could sense the real danger).
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2. She was so already full of dread that she didn't have plenty left (she was so full of irrational fears that she didn't realize the real danger).

Thanks!
  

Top answer

by the description i imagine her being always on the alert for any possible danger which might come up because she can´t sense from whom or what to expect danger realistically.

— Octoberman

  • by the description i imagine her being always on the alert for any possible danger which might come up because she can´t sense from whom or what to expect danger realistically.
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by the description i imagine her being always on the alert for any possible danger which might come up because she can´t sense from whom or what to expect danger realistically.
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Yes, I agree with you. It's obvious she couldn't tell the difference. But that still doesn't answer my question.
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Hard, as the two sentences seem to contradict each other. Sentence 1 seems to clearly mean 1). Yet sentence 2 suggests that she isn't afraid of something that could actually harm her.
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Well, that's exactly my problem. Could it be that the author is ambiguous on purpose?
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