... threatening his administration. Here the recurrent style evolves from the subject.In the other passage, however, the writer makes no suchconnection between style and subject, and so the recurrenceseems ... itviolates proper meaning.As a user of words you should be guided by consensus,that is, the meanings agreed upon by your fellow speakers of English, the meanings recorded in dictionaries. We shall ... "fragrant," "short-lived," and so on.ContextThe denotation of any word is easy to learn: you need onlylook in a suitable dictionary. Understanding connotations,however,...