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When you’re hiking, you may beinterested in knowing the high-est elevation you’ll be reaching. Psychologistsuse the term “mood elevation” to mean improvement in a patient’s depression,and some leg ailments require elevation of the limb, usually so that it’shigher than the heart for part of each day. Elevation canalso mean “pro-motion”; thus, a vice president may be elevatedto president, or a captain may be elevated to admiral. cantilever \'kan-t3-,le-v3r\ A long piece of wood, metal, etc., that sticks out from a wall tosupport something above it. • The house’s deck, supportedby cantilevers, jutted out dramati-cally over the rocky slope, and looking overthe edge made him dizzy. Cantilevers hold up a surfaceor room without themselves being supported at their outer end. Many outdoorbalconies are cantile-vered, and theater balconies may beas well. A cantilevered bridge may have a huge span (as long as 1,800 feet)built out on either side of a single large foundation pier. Architectssometimes use cantilevered construction to produce dramatic effects; FrankLloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater” house, which extends out over a rocky river, is afamous example. But the Grand Canyon’s “Sky walk” has become perhaps thebest-known piece of cantilevered construction in America. levity Vle-va-teX Lack of appropriate seriousness. • The Puritan elders tried toban levity of all sorts from the com-munity’s meetings, but found itincreasingly difficult to control the younger generation. Levityoriginally was thought to be a physical force exactly like gravity but pullingin the opposite direction, like the helium in a balloon. As recently as the19th century, scientists were still arguing about its existence. Today levity refers only to lightness in manner. To sternbelievers of some religious faiths, levity is often regarded as almost sinful.But the word, like its synonym frivolity, now has anold-fashioned ring to it and is usually used only half-seriously.
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