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Directions:

- Define the following words and use each in a sentence.

• Contentious
• Debacle
• Defunct
• Capitals
• Rescinded
• Neophyte
• Portent
• Pernicious
• Conclave​

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Answer:

1. Contentious in a sentence (4 examples are below)

- She has some very contentious views on education.

- The director had a contentious relationship with the eccentric actor.

- The proposal is highly contentious.

- The couple were in the middle of a contentious divorce.

2. Debacle in a sentence (4 examples are below)

- The Argentine debacle has important lessons to teach.

- His first performance was a debacle : the audience booed him off the stage.

- Many men were shot or captured in the debacle.

- After the debacle of the war the world was never the same again.

3. Defunct in a sentence (2 examples are below)

- The whole system right across the board is defunct out of order and totally unbalanced.

- The Irish National League was, however, founded October to take up the work of the defunct Land League, and the country continued to be disturbed.

4. Capitals in a sentence

- Capitals signal the start of a new sentence. This is a stable rule in our written language: Whenever you begin a sentence capitalize the first letter of the first word. This includes capitalizing the first word or a direct quotation when it's a full sentence, even if it appears within another sentence.

5. Rescinded in a sentence (2 examples are below)

- This resolution was rescinded on the 6th of February 1823.

- Clearly, she did make the comment, then seconds later, rescinded it.

6. Neophyte in a sentence (4 examples are below)

- For a fascinated, starstruck neophyte, the convention scene was the stuff of real-life drama and suspense.

- Gaffer was no neophyte and had no fancies.

- He is a neophyte at politics.

- Front liners aims to discourage such reckless neophyte abandon in a variety of ways.

7. Portent in a sentence (4 examples are below)

- He was in office while such strides began to be made by the department in absorbing the full portent of our transport needs.

- There are ominous portents in that decision, deliberately taken.

- This net has been a sign and a portent on the fishing horizon for the last two years.

- They are the portents in the sky ahead.

8. Pernicious in a sentence (4 examples are below)

- The pernicious weed has spread all through the flower bed.

- The last two had a pernicious effect on Cuba, draining it of horses, money and of men.

- In the war on terrorism and the role on HIV, the UN's role is equally pernicious.

- The grandmother put up with the pernicious nonsense.

9. Concave in a sentence (5 examples are below)

- He was little more than five feet high; his breast was almost concave, and, like Schleiermacher, he was deformed in the right shoulder. On less well finished, slightly concave side are remains of c. If the neck is too concave (action too high ), turn the truss rod nut clockwise to remove excess relief.

- Concave Lenses are used in the treatment of myopia or shortsight.

- He refers to Maurolycus' work with concave specula.

- Rayleigh points out that this clinging of the sound to the surface of a concave wall does not depend on the exactness of the spherical form.

- Screws.The figure of a screw is that of a convex or concave cylinder, with one or more helical projections, called threads, winding round it.

- Convex and concave screws are distinguished technically by the respective names of male and female; a short concave screw is called a nut; and when a screw is spoken of without qualification a convex screw is usually understood.

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