英単語15000語その2

以下の一節の [ ] で囲われた語彙の類語として、選択肢の中で最も適しているものを選択してください。

In writing this [ponderous] [tome], the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our [annals] in such a form and style that the young might make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while [ostensibly] relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages, of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. On its sturdy oaken legs, it [trudges] diligently from one scene to another and seems always to thrust itself in the way with most benign complacency whenever a historical personage happens to be looking around for a seat.

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