Lacuna

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Lacuna
01,Jul,2025

Lacuna

Other forms: lacunae; lacunas

A lacuna is a gap or missing part. If you complain that there's a major lacuna in the bake sale, the lack of brownies is probably to blame.

Definitions of lacuna

The noun lacuna means an empty space or a hole where something should be. It's used a lot to talk about missing parts of books or manuscripts, either because lost pages have created a lacuna, or because censors have blacked out or removed parts of them. In the study of anatomy, a lacuna is a hollowed-out place or a cavity within a bone. In Latin, lacuna means ‘pit or hole,’ and its plural is lacunae.

Question

What might be described as a lacuna?

A. A place you remember

B. A thing you forgot

C. A thing you regret

D. A person you depend on

Right Answer:- B. A thing you forgot

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