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12th #8+
Final set of words included in DSI semester test Q2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| heretic | n. A person who holds unpopular or unaccepted beliefs; dissenter; nonconformist |
| apocryphal | adj. Of questionable authorship or authenticity. Erroneous; fictitious adv a•poc'ry•phal•ly |
| desultory | adj. Having no set plan; haphazard or random. Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected. adv. desultorily n. desultoriness |
| affable | adj. Easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable. Friendly; easy to get along with. n. affability adv. affably |
| irascible | adj.Easily angered; irritable. Prone to outbursts of temper. n. irascibility or irascibleness adv. irascibly |
| recapitulate | v., -lat•ed, -lat•ing, -lates To summarize or repeat in concise form. v.tr. To repeat v.intr. To make a summary. adj. recapitulative or recapitulatory |
| garble | tr.v, -bled, -bling, -bles. Mixed up to such an extent as to be misleading or incomprehensible. n. The act or an instance of garbling. garbler |
| edifice | n. A building, especially of large, imposing size |
| assuage | v. To relieve; lessen |
| censure | v. Blame; a rebuke |
| gravity | n. Severity; weighty importance a very serious quality or condition : the condition of being grave or serious : the natural force that tends to cause physical things to move towards each other : the force that causes things to fall towards the Earth |
| cacophony | n. Harsh, discordant sounds |