The meaning of the word incredulous, based on its parts is: "full of disbelief".
The prefix in- is one of the many prefixes that mean "no". So it denies the meaning of the word following it. One example would be the word inefficient. By adding the prefix in- to the adjective efficient, we deny the adjective. If we call a person inefficient, we are saying the person is "not efficient", not able to finish tasks in a proper time and manner.
As for the other part of the word we're analyzing here, "credulous" comes from the Latin word "credere", which means "believe". A credulous person is a person who believes in things easily, without questioning or reasoning.
By putting in- and credulous together, we form "incredulous", or "not credulous". So an incredulous person is a person who does not believe easily - who is full of disbelief.
I’d like to visit the Bahamas, it’s so pretty there and my favorite music artist, Joseph Spence, lives there. He plays guitar and I love the way guitar sounds. I’d love to go to Harbor island if I went there because it has pink sand, I like the color pink.
Answer: Set in the early 1900s, Lowry's (Number the Stars) lyrical novel unspools at a leisurely pace through the eyes of Katy, who wishes to follow in the footsteps of her doctor father. As the narrator chronicles the pivotal year she turns nine, she describes the unlikely friendship she develops with a "touched" farm boy.
6. Roderick Usher has become extremely sensitive to all that which affect the senses: to light, sound, smells, flavors, textures.
7. Usher believes that a family nervous condition will be the cause of his death, that he will die of madness.
8. Madeline is Roderick Usher's sistr. If she dies, Roderick will be the only member left of the Usher family.
9. Madeline is becoming increasingly weak; she suffers from a disease that makes her appear as if she were dead even though she is alive; when the narrator reaches the house of Usher, Madeline has been so decimated by her illness that she must now lie in bed and will probably die soon.
10. The narrator realizes that Roderick Usher has been overtaken by gloom and that he has lost his mind.
11. Roderick Usher can only hear music that is played on string instruments, particularly the guitar, which allows him to accompany the songs of his own mad creation. All other sounds are unbearable to his ears.
12. In the poem "The Haunted Palace", a parallelism is established between the palace, as the actual building described in the poem, and Roderick's head. The two windows through which first angels are seen dancing in harmony and then demons are seen are Roderick's eyes; the door is his mouth, from which wise words used to flow, but now only a madman's laugher emerges. The downfall of Roderick's mind, and of Roderick's family, brings the downfall of the actual house where he and his sister dwell.
