Dubliners Text Set 3

Question 1

Rectitude(n)

Answer 1

1. The quality or fact of being straight; straightness. Also in figurative contexts.
2. The quality of being correct or true; rightness, fittingness; correctness of (intellectual or artistic) judgement, opinion, or procedure. Also: an instance of this.

Question 2

Denude(v)

Answer 2

figurative. To strip, divest, deprive (of any possession, attribute, etc.).

Question 3

Malapropism(n)

Answer 3

The ludicrous misuse of words,esp. in mistaking a word for another resembling it; an instance of this.

Question 4

Renege(v)

Answer 4

transitive. To renounce, abandon, or deny; spec. to abandon, become an apostate to (one’s faith). Now somewhat archaic.

Question 5

Ebullient (adj)

Answer 5

1. That boils; boiling; agitated, as if boiling.
2. figurative. Of energy, feelings, influences: Gushing forth like boiling water; bubbling over, overflowing, enthusiastic. Constr. with.

Question 6

Suffused (adj)

Answer 6

Spread over a surface like water. Also figurative.

Question 7

Suffuse (v)

Answer 7

transitive. To overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light.

Question 8

Magniloquent (adj)

Answer 8

Of a person: lofty, ambitious, orpompousin expression;grandiloquent. Hence of utterances, compositions, etc. Also (occasionally):boastful.

Question 9

Indite(v)

Answer 9

To put into words, compose (a poem, tale, speech, etc.); to give a literary or rhetorical form to (words, an address); to express or describe in a literary composition.

Question 10

Insuperable (adj)

Answer 10

Figurative.Of difficulties, hindrances, etc.: That cannot be ‘got over’ or overcome;unconquerable, invincible; forming animpassablebarrier to action, insurmountable.