In the sentence, <em>My new alarm clock was much louder than my old one, </em>the word that is an example of comparative degree adjective is louder. The comparative degree adjective shows that there are two objects that are in comparison while the superlative is when there are three or more items being compared.
At the time when John F Kennedy delivered his inaugural address the US and the US were locked in the cold war and people were concerned that the world might be destroyed by nuclear weapons.
~ology = the study of ~
example: biology is the study of life
c. a belief of branch of learning