🔍 Anomaly: One in a Billion
This word keeps showing up on recent SATs.
📚️ Definition of Anomaly
Anomaly (noun): a deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal: her late arrival was an anomaly.
🗣️ Pronunciation of Anomaly
IPA: əˈnɑ.mə.lɪ (See IPA key)
Phonetic: uh-NAH-muh-lee
Last-5 Quiz
Test your recall of the last five words we learned! One question each — answer key at the bottom of this email.
1. FALLIBLE most nearly means
(A) deceptive
(B) gullible
(C) suspicious
(D) imperfect
2. IMPECCABLE most nearly means
(A) meticulous
(B) fallible
(C) ostentatious
(D) flawless
3. AFFINITY most nearly means
(A) gloom
(B) inherent liking for
(C) distance
(D) acceptance
4. INELUCTABLE most nearly means
(A) immutable
(B) imminent
(C) contingent
(D) inevitable
5. VERBATIM most nearly means
(A) accurately
(B) word for word
(C) concisely
(D) approximately
📰 Examples of Anomaly
Here are some examples of the word ANOMALY:
It is a sad thought for some to imagine that humans are an anomaly in the universe.
For many students attending competitive schools, getting to sleep while there are still four digits on the digital clock is an anomaly.
In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson found a persistent anomaly in their radio antenna: unexplained microwave noise coming from every direction. This turned out to be the cosmic microwave background, which provided powerful evidence for the Big Bang.
🗣️ How to use Anomaly
statistical anomaly, detect an anomaly, anomaly in the data
Quiz Answers
1st question: D, aberration.
Last-5 quiz answers: 1) A — underscore 2) C — fallible 3) C — impeccable 4) B — affinity 5) D — ineluctable
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