Absurd ( page 11 ).
Questions.
1. What is the difference between absurd and paradoxical? 2. What are the distinctions between irrational, foolish, and silly? 3. What is the especial implication in unreasonable? 4. How do monstrous and preposterous compare with absurd? 5. What is the especial element common to the ludicrous, the ridiculous, and the nonsensical? 6. What are some chief antonyms of absurd?
Examples.
A statement may be disproved by deducing logically from it a conclusion that is ——.
Carlyle delighted in —— utterances.
The —— hatred of the Jews in the Middle Ages led the populace to believe the most —— slanders concerning them.
I attempted to dissuade him from the —— plan, but found him altogether ——; many of his arguments were so —— as to be positively ——.