My layman's observation: Shaw had a penchant for long words. I find very few long words in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Here is a small quiz based on these words?
| 1. controversialists |
| 2. counterbalanced |
| 3. disentanglement |
| 4. enthusiastically |
| 5. excommunication |
| 6. extraordinarily |
| 7. indissolubility |
| 8. sentimentalists |
| 9. sentimentalities |
| 10. susceptibilities |
| 11. thoughtlessness |
Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the choice box. Hover your mouse over the blank to see the suggested answer
| 1. ..this change of front has not yet been noticed by our newspaper ____ and by the suburban season-ticket holders whose minds the newspapers make. <. |
| 2. they are only expressing inaccurately a very real need for the ____of sexual relations from a mass of exorbitant and irrelevant conditions imposed on them on false pretences to enable needy parents to get their daughters “off their hands” <. |
| 3. one of the surest methods to obtain a husband is to practise on his ____s until he is either carried away into a promise of marriage to which he can be legally held, <. |
| 4.And all the time we shall keep ____y investing her trade with every allurement that the art of the novelist, the playwright, the dancer, the milliner, the painter, the limelight man, and the sentimental poet can devize <. |
| 5. ... what our ____have not yet been told is that exactly the same thing applies to maternity as to government. <. |
| 6. .. population declines, because the high birth rate of the very poor is ____ by a huge infantile-mortality in the slums, <. |
| 7.Substituting for political articles informed by at least some pretence of knowledge of economics, history, and constitutional law, such paltry follies and ____s, snobberies and partisaneries, as ignorance can understand and irresponsibility relish. |
| 8.That such a convention should have been established shews that the ____of marriage creates such intolerable situations that only by beglamoring the human imagination with a hypnotic suggestion of wholly unnatural feelings can it be made to keep up appearances. |
| 9.The result was, not the abolition of sex, but its ____. <. |
| 10.They read old-fashioned newspapers with effort, and were just taking with avidity to a new sort of paper, costing a halfpenny, which they believed to be ____ bright and attractive <. |
| 11.They practised the most appalling cruelties from mere ____, thinking nothing of imprisoning men and women for periods up to twenty years for breaking into their houses. |
