Synonyms: Roots from Latin - ISEE Middle Level Verbal Reasoning

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Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.

MONOTONOUS

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The root "mono"means one , and the "-ton-" in "monotonous" derives from "tone,"meaning sound, so it makes sense that “monotone” means producing one tone. However, it also means boringly uniform and uninteresting. "Uninteresting" is thus the correct answer. As for the other answer choices, "defiant" means rebellious; "convoluted" means complex or overly complex; "enervated" means having used up all of one's energy or exhausted; and "productive" means yielding useful results.

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