Though many syllables have to do duty for the expression of more than one idea, the majority have only one or at most two meanings, but there are some which are used with quite a number of different inflections, each of which gives the word a new meaning. [Please select]
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There were two voices, a young one, full of soft southern inflections, and an older voice, a trifle hard, as from disillusion. [Please select]
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To such a man a bark is as expressive of meanings as are the inflections of a human voice. [Please select]
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Are your inflections natural, courteous, modest, musical, or aggressive, conceited, pessimistic, repellent. [Please select]
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Neither her words nor her inflections ruffled the calm of that long immobile face with its half-veiled powerful eyes. [Please select]
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(In an inflected language, the same thing will be indicated by inflections, e.) [Please select]
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Sometimes both the rising and falling inflections are given to the same sound. [Please select]
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--Relative emphasis often reverses this and the first rule, because emphasis is here expressed in part by changing the usual inflections. [Please select]
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A modern classicist would have been a forlorn outlander in ancient Athens, with no books in a forgotten tongue, no obsolete inflections to impose upon reluctant youth. [Please select]
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