14/7/2020

Question 1

igneous

Answer 1

ADJECTIVE

1. of, containing, or having the nature of, fire; fiery
2. produced by the action of fire; specif., formed by volcanic action or intense heat, as intrusive or extrusive rock solidified from molten magma or lava

I’d had such splendid confusions about the geological world back then, before marrying a man who’d minored in igneous and granite.

Question 2

crust

Answer 2

NOUN
1.
a. the hard, crisp outer part of bread
b. a piece of this
c. any dry, hard piece of bread
2. the pastry shell of a pie
3. any hard surface layer, as of snow or soil
4. a hard deposit formed by wine on the inside surface of a bottle
5. Slang
audacity; insolence; gall
6. Geology
the solid, rocky outer portion or shell of the earth; lithosphere
7. Medicine
a dry, hard outer layer of blood, pus, or other bodily secretion
VERB TRANSITIVE, VERB INTRANSITIVE
8. to cover or become covered with a crust
9. to form or harden into a crust
This is the only tome you need to join the upper crust.

Question 3

metamorphic

Answer 3

Adj
রূপান্তরিত
(of rocks) altered considerably from their original structure and mineralogy by pressure and heat Compare igneous, sedimentary
Now he was into metamorphic rock, where the river wound through enormous cracks.

Question 4

disintegration

Answer 4

noun
বিভেদ
1.  the act or process of disintegrating
2.  Nuclear Physics
any change in a nucleus of an atom, whether spontaneous or induced, in which one or more particles, photons, etc. are emitted

As if I had witnessed the disintegration of a previously unseen object.

Question 5

assorted

Answer 5

ADJECTIVE
1. of different sorts; of various kinds; miscellaneous
2. sorted into groups according to kind
3. matched
হরেক রকম
a poorly assorted pair
There is the flavour of the student handbook, designed around an otherwise oddly assorted set of core texts.

Question 6

gravel

Answer 6

NOUN
1. a loose mixture of pebbles and rock fragments coarser than sand, often mixed with clay, etc.
2. Medicine
a deposit of small concretions that form in the kidneys or gallbladder and that may be retained, passed on to the urinary bladder, or passed from the body
VERB TRANSITIVE
Word forms: ˈgraveled or ˈgravelled, ˈgraveling or ˈgravelling
3. to cover (a walk, driveway, etc.) with gravel
4. to embarrass or perplex
5. US, Informal
to irritate or annoy
Top off the baskets with washed gravel to stop the aquatic compost floating away.