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12th #8+ sentences
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| heretic | n. A person who holds unpopular or unaccepted beliefs; dissenter; nonconformist |
| When governments stopped burning heretics and witches, effigy burning remained as a threatening gesture of the mob. | The professor lost his job due to his heretical beliefs. |
| apocryphal | adj. Of questionable authorship or authenticity. Erroneous; fictitious adv a•poc'ry•phal•ly |
| Most of the infamous stories about Michael Jackson have turned out to be apocryphal and based on silly rumors. | |
| desultory | adj. Having no set plan; haphazard or random. Moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected. adv.desultorily n. desultoriness |
| For three days he made desultory attempts to clean up the disaster that was his bedroom, he just moved rubbish in circles! | |
| affable | adj. Easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable. Friendly; easy to get along with. n. affability adv. affably |
| His affable manner instantly puts a person at ease, almost like talking with an old friend. | |
| irascible | adj.Easily angered; irritable. Prone to outbursts of temper. n. irascibility or irascibleness adv. irascibly |
| “Cut it out, now,” I said. We were in front of the Radley Place. Jem said, ... | ...“Boo must not be at home. Listen.” High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, |
| ...to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will. | Standing in line can make anyone irascible, which is why I always cut right to the front. |
| 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 |
| I will recapitulate what has happened in the story so far and then we will read on together. | |
| 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 |
| The legend is somewhat garbled, and this version has been attributed to various groups of people. | |
| edifice | n. A building, especially of large, imposing size |
| The Congregational Chapel is a handsome Gothic edifice, erected in 1850, at a cost of £ 2,200. | |
| assuage | v. To relieve; lessen |
| When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. | Some aspirin would assuage my pain, but it might also help if you quit punching me in the neck. |
| censure | v. Blame; a rebuke |
| They were charged with slander and faced censure or dismissal. | |
| gravity | n. Severity; weighty importance |
| Arthur shattered the heavy gravity of the occasion when he danced a clumsy jig on his landlord's fresh grave. | |
| cacophony | n. Harsh, discordant sounds |
| The street was a cacophonous jumble of horns, sirens, and car alarms, making it difficult for Rufus to engage in meaningful conversation with his rubber ducky. |
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