Question

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. Tiles unoriginal well-groomed numerous Pairs He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored and imperially slim. (from "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson) arrowBoth This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar) arrowBoth . . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . . (from "Poetry" by Marianne Moore) arrowBoth

Answer 1

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,             ANS:welgroomed
Clean favored and imperially slim.(from "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson)This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,            ANS: Numerous
And mouth with myriad subtleties.(from "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar). . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are 
useful. When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible, 
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we     Ans: unoriginal
do not admire what 
we cannot understand. . .(from "Poetry" by Marianne Moore)

Answer 2

Reading that gave me a headache v.v