February 1, 2011

Vocabulary
Week 14
1. arsenal – a place for making and storing weapons (arms) and military equipment
2. asinine – extremely or utterly foolish
3. grievous – causing grief or great sorrow, serious
4. braise – to cook (meat) slowly in fat and with little moisture in a close pot
5. cache – a hiding place (esp.) for persevering provisions, a reserve, stash or stockpile
6. candor – unreserved, honest or sincere expression
7. carnage – great destruction of life, a slaughter or massacre
8. defame – to injure or destroy the reputation of by libel or slander
9. libel – a spoken or written statement or representation that gives an unjustly unfavorable impression of a person or thing
10. levity – a lack of seriousness
11. gander – the act of looking, a glance
12. impetus – a driving force, impulse, incentive
13. implore – to plead, beg or beseech
14. malleable – capable of being shaped with pressure
15. mangy – decayed, deteriorated or fallen into partial ruin because of neglect or misuse
16. maraud – to roam about and raid in search of plunder, to pillage
17. plunder– something taken by force or theft
18. congeal – to change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing:
19. tawny – of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color
20. vestibule – a passage or hall between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building.
21. soliloquy – an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts): Hamlet's soliloquy begins with “To be or not to be.”