What is the difference between Decent and Dissent and Descent?
What is the difference between Decent and Dissent and Descent? :
Decent : (adjective)
( 1 ) Proper, acceptable
You must provide decent housing for the poor.
( 2 ) Modest, not likely to embarrass others
She was wearing decent clothes.
Never tell stories that are not decent.
( 3 ) Satisfactory
Quite good
Are you earning a decent living?
That was quite a decent lunch.
He is thoroughly a decent man.
Dissent : (verb)
( 1 ) Have or express opinions from which are opposed to official views
I strongly dissent from what the last speaker has said.
Descent : (noun)
( 1 ) Coming or going down
The plane began its descent into Patna.
( 2 ) Slope
( 3 ) Ancestry
Origins
He traces his descent from the Mughal Kings.
( 4 ) Inconvenient or unexpected visit
There was a sudden descent by tax-officials.
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