Dubliners Text Set 1

Question 1

Simony(n)

Answer 1

The buying or selling of ecclesiastical or spiritual benefits; esp. the sale or purchase of preferment or office in the church. Also sometimes more generally: trading in sacred things. Also the sale and purchase of positions.

Question 2

Inefficacious (adj)

Answer 2

Of a remedy, treatment, course of action, etc.: Notefficacious; without efficacy.

Question 3

Truculent (adj)

Answer 3

Characterized by or exhibiting ferocity or cruelty; fierce, cruel, savage, barbarous.

Question 4

Assent(n +v)

Answer 4

N. Official, judicial, or formal concurrence of will; sanction; the action or instrument that signifies such concurrence.
V. intransitive. To give the concurrence of one’s will, to agree to (a proposal), to comply with (a desire).

Question 5

Sedulously(adv)

Answer 5

Diligently, attentively.

Question 6

Pertly(adv)

Answer 6

Boldly; audaciously. In early use in a positive sense: valiantly, fearlessly; confidently. In later use also (and now only) in a negative sense: forwardly; shamelessly; impudently, cheekily. Also figurative.

Question 7

Escalade(v)

Answer 7

transitive. To climb up and get over or enter (a wall, rampart, etc.) by means of ladders; to scale.

Question 8

Gantlet- Gauntlet (n)

Answer 8

A glove worn as part of medieval armour, usually made of leather, covered with plates of steel.

Question 9

Impinge(v)

Answer 9

transitive. To force or thrust (a thing) upon any one; to fasten or fix on forcibly. Rare. To strike, dash, collide.

Question 10

Cretonne(n)

Answer 10

The French name of a strong fabric of hempen warp and linen woof; applied in England to a stout unglazed cotton cloth printed on one or both sides with a pattern in colours, and used for chair covers, curtains, and the like.