Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use ItTrabue, Marion Rex
Science
Measure Your Mind: The Mentimeter and How to Use It
Trabue, Marion Rex
Educational tests and measurements; Intelligence tests; Psychological tests
20. To relinquish is to abandon the : To resign is to formally return
thing which has been or give up an office, to
possessed, or the object of submit, to acquiesce, to
pursuit abdicate
21. Shrewd means artful, malicious, : Sagacious means one of keen
cunning, of less dignity than penetration and judgment, one
sagacious with a comprehensive as well a
penetrating mind
22. Dormant means sleeping, not in : Quiescent means resting, in a
action state of repose
23. Reconstruction means to form : Rehabilitation means to invest
anew again with some right or
dignity
means to build over
again
deals more largely with deals largely with
material things mental and spiritual
things
24. Reparation means restoration, : Indemnity means immunity from
renewing, repairing damage loss or damage
done
remuneration for injury
has more of the idea of has more of the idea of
replacing things paying for things
destroyed destroyed
_MENTIMETER NO. 16_: Naming Opposites.
Except in special cases indicated below, no credit should be allowed for
adding “not” or “un” or any other negative prefix to the printed word.
An entirely different word should be used as the opposite of the printed
word. Those words printed in parentheses in the following list should
not be given credit as being satisfactory opposites. Words not printed
below but as satisfactory opposites as those printed should be given
full credit, while words as unsatisfactory as those printed in
parentheses should not be given credit.
1. bad, poor (not good)
2. poor, needy, indigent
3. big, large, great (tall)
4. old, ancient
5. easy, soft
6. light (white)
7. clean, pure
8. well, healthy
9. south
10. full, filled
11. pull
12. right, correct
13. end, ending
14. wide
15. evening, afternoon (night)
16. somewhere, everywhere
17. fresh
18. idle
19. to sink (to swim)
20. rough, ragged
21. tame, domestic
22. weakness
23. guilty
24. ignorance, stupidity
25. negative, uncertain
26. superior
27. modern, new
28. cause
29. generous, liberal
30. concrete, specific
31. justice, impartiality
32. dilatory, sluggish
33. extravagant, wasteful, uneconomical
34. genuine, real
35. depression, melancholy
36. delay, impede, hamper
37. confident, bold, immodest
38. heterogeneous
39. cowardly, irresolute, fearful
40. slanderous, scurrilous, vilifying
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