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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