Select the sentence in which the highlighted word is used in a different…
2025
Select the sentence in which the highlighted word is used in a different meaning.
Given sentence: The choir began the introit at the priest’s signal.
Answer: A. The palace’s introit led visitors into the central courtyard. — ConceptOne word form can carry more than one sense. In a "used in a different meaning" item, the given sentence fixes one reference sense, and the task is to…
- A.
The palace’s introit led visitors into the central courtyard.
- B.
The introit was replaced by an organ improvisation.
- C.
The missal included Latin text for the introit.
- D.
The cantor rehearsed the Sunday introit.
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: A
Concept
One word form can carry more than one sense. In a "used in a different meaning" item, the given sentence fixes one reference sense, and the task is to find the sentence whose own cue words force a sense outside that reference. What decides the sense is the collocation each sentence supplies — what the word is said to do, or what it is said to belong to — not the general subject matter of the sentence.
Application
In the given sentence the cues are choir, priest and began: they place the word inside an act of worship, so introit there means the opening chant or piece of music with which a Christian service starts. Each option is now tested against that reference sense using only its own cue words.
Cue words in the sentence | Sense "introit" must carry there |
|---|---|
missal, Latin text | the opening chant of the Mass, whose words the missal prints |
cantor, rehearsed, Sunday | the opening chant sung at worship, prepared by the lead singer |
organ improvisation, replaced | the opening music of the service, here swapped for organ playing |
palace, led visitors into the central courtyard | a way in that people physically walk through |
Three of the sentences keep the worship sense: a chant can be printed in a missal, rehearsed by a cantor, and replaced by an organ piece. The palace sentence needs something a person can walk along to reach a courtyard, and a chant cannot lead anyone anywhere. So the meaning shifts only in The palace’s introit led visitors into the central courtyard.
Cross-check
Merriam-Webster: introit — the first part of the traditional proper of the Mass; also a piece of music sung or played at the beginning of a worship service.
Cambridge: introit — the opening part of a Mass or other religious service, or those opening words set to music.
Historical dictionaries record a now-obsolete, non-liturgical sense: the Middle English Dictionary glosses introite as "entrance", and Blount’s Glossographia (1656) defines introit as "an entry, a place to enter by" — from Latin introitus, "a going in".
That older spatial sense is what the palace sentence needs, since a place people walk through cannot be a sung item; the modern liturgical sense recorded by the dictionaries above is what the other three sentences carry.
Answer: the palace sentence, where introit denotes an entrance way rather than the opening chant of a service.