Question

In the sentence from Barbara Kingsolver's "Life Without Go-Go Boots," "Writers are supposed to be eccentric," the word eccentric is a euphemism for _____. poorly dressed fashionable late effortlessly stylish unconventionally old-fashioned

Answer 1

Eccentric means unconventional, so I think the answer is D. Unconventionally old-fashioned.

Answer 2

The right answe is "unconventionally"

Explanation: Euphemism is a figure of speech that employs more agreeable terms to soften an expression. In this case, Barbara Kingsolver meant that the writers should be unconventional, but these words might sound very aggressive, so to soften the expression, the authors preferred to use the word "eccentric" instead of "unconventional" .

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