Word | heart |
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QType | L |
Instructions | In this sentence, heart means: |
Sentence | “He still believes in his heart that people are honest and good,” the former manager said about Kenny. |
Source | Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal |
Source URL | https://www.amazon.com/Fast-Food-Nation-Dark-All-American/dp/0547750331 |
Source Title | Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal |
Choices | the locus of feelings and intuitions | a specific piece of work required to be done | an instance of visual perception | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord |
Correct Answer | the locus of feelings and intuitions |
Blurb | As the heart is the central organ of the human body, so the word heart has come to mean a central location of an organization or system, as well as being used to describe courage and generosity. We can see the Germanic influences in the word heart by looking at the Old Saxon herta and the German herz. If we go back even further, however, we see the word also has ties to the Greek kardia, which makes sense when we consider that the prefix cardio refers to the heart. For example, a cardio workout is one that gets the heart pumping harder, and a cardiologist is a doctor of the heart. If someone asks that you "have a heart," however, they are appealing to your sense of generosity not to the blood-pumping organ. |
Level | 1 |
Frequency | 0.083333333 |
Page Frequency | once / 12 pages |
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