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.

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