Vocab Builder - Part-2 - (Braingle)

A) Doctrine

1. An in-closed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.
2. Cognizance; view; especially, reach of sight or knowledge.
3. To pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil.
4. To be, or come, in the way of; to hinder from passing; to stop; to impede; to retard.
5. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith

B) Hierarchy

1. Fatigued by overwork: EXHAUSTED.
2. Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
3. To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.
4. A body of officials disposed organically in ranks and orders each subordinate to the one above it; a body of ecclesiastical rulers.
5. Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.

C) Lucubrate [TFD]

1. To negotiate over the terms of a purchase, agreement, or contract: HAGGLE.
2. A substance that enters into and is altered in the course of a chemical reaction.
3. Write in scholarly fashion.
4. Rough with hair; set with bristles; shaggy.
5. Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.

Answers: A-5, B-4, C-3

Vocab Builder - Part-1 - (Braingle)

A) Shrill:

1. Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness.
2. To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly.
3. A cute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said of a sound, or of that which produces a sound.
4. Likely to be useful for a purpose.
5. An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectivally.

B) Apropos

1. Being both relevant and opportune.
2. To free from allegation or blame.
3. The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
4. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind.
5. To deride or tease with taunting words.

Answers:

A. 3     B. 1