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Zorluk: OrtaInferring Meaning from Examples and Explanations

Read the following passage from a subterranean engineering report:

"During subterranean mining operations, environmental engineers monitor several environmental hazards to ensure personnel safety. In unventilated tunnels, workers face asphyxiants—such as methane and carbon monoxide—that displace breathable oxygen. Crew chiefs also check for efflorescence, the powdery white crystalline deposit that leaches onto tunnel walls when saline groundwater evaporates. Finally, teams install reinforcement mesh over friable rock formations, which easily crumble and fracture under mild seismic vibration."

Based on the examples and explanatory clauses in the passage, match each technical term with its correct contextual meaning.

  • asphyxiantsGases or agents that displace breathable oxygen and cause suffocation
  • efflorescencePowdery mineral deposits left on surfaces after moisture evaporates
  • friableMaterials that easily crumble or fracture under mild physical stress

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asphyxiants matches with 'Gases or agents that displace breathable oxygen and cause suffocation', efflorescence matches with 'Powdery mineral deposits left on surfaces after moisture evaporates', and friable matches with 'Materials that easily crumble or fracture under mild physical stress'.
Each technical term is explicitly qualified in the text: 'asphyxiants' by the illustrative examples of methane and carbon monoxide displacing air, 'efflorescence' by the appositive detailing crystalline residue left by evaporating saline water, and 'friable' by the clause describing rock that readily crumbles and fractures.

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1
Locate the target term 'asphyxiants' and identify the surrounding context clue.
The text lists illustrative examples 'such as methane and carbon monoxide' and specifies that they 'displace breathable oxygen'.
Examples of oxygen-displacing gases indicate substances causing suffocation.
2
Locate the target term 'efflorescence' and identify the descriptive phrase directly following it.
The text describes it as 'the powdery white crystalline deposit that leaches onto tunnel walls when saline groundwater evaporates'.
An appositive explanation directly defines the term as mineral crusts formed through evaporation.
3
Locate the target term 'friable' and analyze the modifying clause.
The relative clause states that friable rock formations 'easily crumble and fracture under mild seismic vibration'.
The explanation defines the structural property of crumbling or fracturing easily.

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Inferring Meaning from Examples and Explanations
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