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Risible
Adjective
Meaning: Arousing or causing laughter
Usage:The professor kept his students alert and amused with risible remarks
Their performance was extremely terrible that many considered it to be risible
capacious
Adjective
Meaning: Roomy; able to hold much
Usage:
- The old castle has a capacious dining room large enough to seat a small army
- Rohan’s memory for jokes is capacious, he remembers them all
peccadillo
Meaning: A slight offense; a minor offense or sin; a petty misdeed; a slight or trifling sin
Usage:
- The movie star’s peccadilloes made tabloid headlines
- A serious lie is told to cover a minor peccadillo
Scamper
Verb
Meaning: To run; to go hastily
Usage:
- The dogs scampered across the lawn to the house
- The cat scampered after the rolling ball
- We planned to scamper past the guards when their backs were turned
fusillade
Noun
Meaning: A rapid outburst or barrage
Usage:
- The soldier jumped behind a concrete wall for protection from the fusillade of gunfire
- The defence lawyer overwhelmed the witness with a fusillade of questions
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