scorch--is what happens to a thing when exposed to great heat. quake--is a kind of movement, unintended. ramble--is a walk taken for pleasure. nerve--is a thing you feel by--for instance, cold. majesty--is a word used to address a king--your majesty. Mars--is a planet. peculiarity--is something you do that nobody else does. mosaic--is a picture made by many small pieces of marble. bewail--is to be extremely sorrowful. tolerate--is to allow others to do what you don't like yourself. lotus--is a kind of flower. harpy--is a kind of half-bird, half-woman, referred to in Virgil. fen--is a kind of marsh. laity--is _not_ clergy. ambergris--it comes from a whale. straw--the stalk of a cereal plant. lecture--someone giving a very long talk about something to an audience. E also has a prodigious ability for comprehending and formulating abstract ideas, and for working with symbols. He gave the differences between the abstract concepts under Average Adult as follows: _a_--laziness and idleness. Laziness is that you don't _want_ to work; idleness is that you _can't_, for a while. _b_--evolution and revolution. Evolution is making things from the beginning; revolution is changing them. _c_--poverty and misery. Poverty is when you don't have anything; misery is how you feel when someone insults you. _d_--character and reputation. Character is what he _really_ is; reputation is what they _think_ he is. E succeeded in reversing the clock hands three times without any error in less than a minute for each trial. He was able to reproduce the thought from the selection beginning "Many opinions have been given about the value of life" as well as a Superior Adult. He solved the three mental arithmetic problems under XIV, 5, in less than a minute each, absolutely without error. These performances serve to illustrate his precocious power over symbols and over abstractions. His attention, concentration, and capacity for sustained effort are illustrated by the fact that he was able to repeat five digits backwards twice out of three trials absolutely without error, before a class of thirty adults. His memory span for digits repeated forward is at least 8. (He was not tried with more than 8 digits.)