Shayla is able to retain the vocabulary she learned in her first semester Spanish class after the class has ended. The main memo
ry process that accounts for the fact that Shayla can hold information in her memory for extended periods of time is __________.a. storage. b. chunking.
c. retrieval.
d. encoding.
The meaning of the three words at the end of your question are:
Receptacle: a container or device, something that receives or holds something. [In this case, it refers to how a churchyard only keeps hold of dead bodies and nothing else.]
Consummation: the end, the conclusion of something. [It was gratifying to finally have reached the objective after enduring so much pain.]
Obliterated: something that has been erased from memory. [The revelation was so inmense that all the work done to achieve the results was suddenly forgotten.]
