SAT words ₄

Stanisław Lem was awarded an honorary membership in the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) in 1973 despite being technically ineligible. SFWA Honorary membership is given to people who do not meet the criteria for joining the regular membership but who would be welcomed as members. Lem, however, never had a high opinion of American science-fiction — particularly the works of Harlan Ellison — describing it as ill thought-out, poorly written, and interested more in making money than in ideas or new literary forms. After his American publication, when he was eligible for regular membership, his honorary membership was rescinded. Some of the SFWA members apparently intended this as a rebuke, and it seems that Lem interpreted it thus, but the organization's official line is that honorary membership is only extended to people who are not eligible for regular membership. After his American publication, Lem was invited to stay on with the organization with a regular membership, but declined.

In many other cultures it's just the reverse: the rich are fat and the poor are emaciated. Anthropologist George Armelagos of Emory University calls it the Henry the Eighth syndrome, referring to the corpulent King of England who lived so well off the labor of his peasantry. “Think about how many people had to work to make the King the size that he was,” says Armelagos. Being rotund is still a sign of prosperity and prestige in Polynesia and parts of Africa.

Over dinner, a taciturn staff gave him a quick primer on how to direct a movie.

Or maybe, as its detractors contend, Therapeutic Touch is a form of New Age mumbo jumbo, a no-touch laying on of hands that has no legitimate place in medicine.

a canny (movie) producer.

That answer is probably just as good as the so called “correct” answer, which always seemed a bit contrived to me.

Here is where NeXT's doleful record cannot be entirely exonerated by the biological metaphor, which is after all a figure of speech, not an explanation.

avert, obviate, forestall

partiality, penchant, prejudice, proclivity, propensity

There are lots of apocryphal stories floating on the internet. For example, i was reading an article on the story of casino in the early days (http://www.quatloos.com/gamble/parhedg.htm); about how they murdered a man who was using some nuclear-physicist kids's stratagem to win away some 10 million dollars. Urban legends are either completely baseless, or distorted true stories.

capricious, volatile, mercurial, whimsical

disdainful

sublime

… the university had ignored decades of constitutional law and abrogated its responsibility as a center for free inquiry.

dominant, predominant, preponderant, paramount, preeminent, supremacy, preponderance, pre-eminence

abutting, adjoining, juxtaposed

He believed that art must be analyzed for both its overt and covert meaning: Beneath its explicit content there exists a vast reservoir of latent social and psychic information.

thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife

censurable, reprehensible

i took a cursory reading of the book.