Unit 17

Question 1

Connoisseur

Answer 1

(n) a person possessing expert knowledge or training; a person of informed and discriminating taste
e. g. The art connoisseur selected works by Van Gogh,, Rambrandt, and Picasso for the exhibition.

Question 2

Conscript

Answer 2

(n) person compulsorily enrolled for military service
(v) to enroll a person for military service
(n) Conscription

e.g. The position of NOW is that having male-only conscripts violates the principle of gender equality.

Question 3

Consecrate

Answer 3

(v) to declare sacred

e. g. The present Holy Trinity church was consecrated in 1845.

Question 4

Contend

Answer 4

(v) to assert
- Contention (n): an assertion

e.g. He contends that the judge was wrong.

Question 5

Contentious

Answer 5

(adj) quarrelsome; causing quarrels
e. g. When genetic engineering started in 1970s, there was a contentious, and sometimes acrimonious, debate among scientists themselves about its dangers.

Question 6

Contiguous

Answer 6

(adj) touching; neighboring; connecting without a break

e. g. There are 48 contiguous states in the United States of America.

Question 7

Continence

Answer 7

(n) self-control; abstention from sexual activity

e. g. Complete sexual continence is considered an essential feature of the monastic life.

Question 8

Contrite

Answer 8

(adj) very sorrowful for a wrong
e. g. In sentencing the convicted man for a life sentence, the judge took into consideration the fact that he did not seem to be at all contrite about his crime.

Question 9

Contumacious

Answer 9

(adj) disobedient; rebellious

e. g. His refusal to make child support payments was contumacious.

Question 10

Conundrum

Answer 10

(n) riddle; puzzle with no solution

e. g. The paradoxical statement “This statement is false” presents us with a conundrum.