2022 Jul

Question 1

Nutriment

Answer 1

Nourishment

Question 2

Hirrient

Answer 2

Having a strongly trilled sound

Purring

Question 3

AUM

Answer 3

Assets under Management

Total market value of the investments that a person or entity handles on behalf of investors

Question 4

NAV

Answer 4

Net Asset Value

Investment company’s total assets minus its total liabilities

Question 5

Ambisinister

Answer 5

Clumsy or unskillful with both hands

Question 6

Assoil

Answer 6

To absolve

Pardon

Question 7

Handsel

Answer 7

A gift given for good luck

Question 8

Passible

Answer 8

Capable of feeling or suffering

Susceptible to sensation or emotion

Question 9

Philtre

Answer 9

A love potion

Question 10

Cairn

Answer 10

A mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark (typically on a hilltop or skyline)

Question 11

Amphigory

Answer 11

A nonsense verse

A rigmarole which proves to be meaningless

Question 12

Rigmarole

Answer 12

A long story

Question 13

Tryst

Answer 13

A private romantic rendezvous between lovers

Question 14

Parapraxis

Answer 14

A slip of the tongue

Forgetfulness

Misplacement of objects

Question 15

Vassal

Answer 15

A person or country in a subordinate position to another

A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance

Question 16

Parkinson’s Law

Answer 16

The notion that work expands to fill the time available for its completion

Question 17

Gruen Transfer

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The moment when consumers enter a shopping mall or store and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, lose track of their original intentions, making them more susceptible to making impulsive buys

Question 18

Sternutation

Answer 18

The act of sneezing

Question 19

Confabulate

Answer 19

To fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for a loss of memory

Question 20

Inconnu

Answer 20

An unknown person or thing

Question 21

Eunomy

Answer 21

Civil order under good laws

Question 22

Charrette

Answer 22

SHE-ret

A meeting in which shareholders in a project attempt to resolve conflicts and map solutions

Question 23

Smorzando

Answer 23

(Music) dying away

Question 24

Paraph

Answer 24

A flourish after a signature, originally as a precaution against forgery

Question 25

Enum

Answer 25

A user-defined data type that has a fixed set of related values (Swift) * “enum” keyword is used to create enums enum Season { case spring, summer, autumn, winter } *Enum values are also called “enum cases” Season -> name of the enum Spring, summer, autumn, winter -> values defined inside the enum *case keyword is used to declare values inside the enum

Question 26

Compound assignment operator

Answer 26

Replaces the contents of the object with the result of a binary operation between the previous value of a and the value of b E.g., += -=

Question 27

Tuple

Answer 27

A group of different values (Swift) Syntax var TupleName = (Value 1, Value 2…any number of values)

Question 28

Dictionary

Answer 28

A collection whose elements are key-value pairs Each entry is identified using its key Declaration @frozen struct Dictionary where Key : Hashable

Question 29

Exemplar

Answer 29

A person or thing serving as a typical example or appropriate model Epitome