Word+Watcher

__ **Section 1** __
**By: Kaitlyn Mullally**

**brazen** (77): shameless **fastidious** (84): excessively critical, or demanding
 * albeit** (59): although; even if
 * alleviating** (65): making easier to endure; lessening
 * amble** (42): to go at a slow easy pace; stroll
 * aperçu** (92): a hasty glance; a glimpse
 * aureole** (65): a radiance surrounding the head or whole body of a person
 * austerity** (64): severity of manner, life; sternness
 * begrudge**(6): to envy or resent the pleasure of someone
 * benighted** (24): intellectually or morally ignorant; overtaken by darkness or night
 * callipers** (32): an instrument for measuring thicknesses and diameters inaccessible to a scale
 * cesspool** (36): a pit for retaining sediment of a drain, or receiving sewage from a house
 * chaplain** (38): a person who says the prayer for an organization or an assembly
 * cholera** (33): an infectious disease, endemic in India and China, characterized by profuse vomiting, cramps etc.
 * commingling** (53): to combine, mingle (mix) together
 * commodious** (59): spacious and convenient; roomy
 * dolorous** (84): full of, or expressing pain and sorrow
 * emancipation** (22): the act of freeing from restraint; freeing a slave from bondage
 * embezzlers**(29): people who violate trust by taking (money) from their own use
 * fervour** (90): to have great warmth and earnestness of feeling
 * fricassees** (64): meat that is browned slightly and serves in a stew
 * frugal** (58): entailing little expense, requiring few resources
 * gaol** (9): British word for jail
 * gauche** (85): lacking social grace; awkward; crude
 * ghoul** (98): an evil demon that robs graves and preys on corpses
 * grisly** (99): causing a shudder or feeling of horror
 * herbaceous** (71): herblike
 * importnuate** (129): to be persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoying
 * incipient** (49): beginning to exist or appear
 * incorrigible** (37): bad beyond correction or reform; firmly fixed, not easily changed
 * intransigent** (89): refusing to agree or compromise
 * intrepidity** (9): resolutely fearless; dauntless
 * malady** (49): any disorder or disease of the bodying resolutely fearless; dauntless
 * incur** (53): to bring or take upon oneself
 * matron** (34): a woman serving as a guard or attendant for women or girls in a prison
 * milliner** (24): a person who designs, makes, or sells hats for women
 * mollified** (101): to have been softened in feeling or temper[[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_X7cq0i0IwXc/TUX5nK7I6fI/AAAAAAAAE6I/ammutfT4sfY/s1600/jacques%2Bmatron.jpg width="186" height="173" align="right" caption="A matron"]]
 * noxious** (51): harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being
 * olfactory** (98): of or pertaining to the sense of smell
 * pallid** (86): pale; faint in colour
 * paramour** (28): an illicit lover
 * pedagogy** (102): the function or work of a teacher
 * proffer** (53): to put before a person for acceptance; offer
 * prolific** (52): producing offspring abundantly
 * prurient** (90): having a restless desire or longing
 * refine** (37): to bring to a pure state; free from impurities
 * rigmarole** (69): an elaborate or complicated procedure
 * sagacity** (55): acuteness of mental discernment and good judgment; shrewd
 * salutary** (54): promoting to some beneficial purpose
 * scudding** (61): moving running quickly or hurriedly
 * scuppers** ([[image:http://princessdianabookboutique.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/black-taffeta-gown.jpg width="139" height="275" align="left" caption="A taffeta dress"]]132): (nautical) a drain at the edge of a ship's deck; allows water to drain away into the sea
 * settee** (21): a seat for two or more people, having a back and usually arms, and often upholstered
 * somnambulism** (67): sleepwalking
 * spar** (62): (nautical) a stout pole such as those used for masts
 * squalid** (59): foul and repulsive as from lack of care or cleanliness
 * strabismus** (95): a disorder of vision where both eyes cannot be directed at the same object at the same time
 * trice** (43): a very short time; an instant
 * taffeta** (23): a medium or light weight fabric of acetate, nylon, or silk; usually smooth, plain-woven, and lustrous
 * trussed** (37): to be tied, bound, or fastened
 * tumult** (129): violent and noisy commotion of a crowd or mob
 * unsullied** (49): untarnished, virginal, pure[[image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kCnmmn8fnb0/Sw2nfdyfoUI/AAAAAAAAB5I/dGydVTBQp3k/s1600/6830__french_settee_1.jpg width="321" height="226" align="right" caption="A settee."]]
 * urbane** (87): reflecting elegance or sophistication
 * viscid** (51): having a glutinous consistency; sticky
 * vocation** (85): a profession or occupation; calling

__**Section 2**__
**By: Breanna Willms**


 * abattoir** (215): A slaughterhouse
 * assiduously** (161): to do something constantly, without stopping; determined[[image:http://www.bangstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/marriage5.jpg width="178" height="238" align="right" caption="Nuptial; pertaining to marriage."]]
 * camphor** (185): A substance with specific medicinal characteristics
 * conjugal** (165): pertaining to the relation of husband and wife
 * consternation** (164): a sudden amazement that soon results in extreme confusion
 * corroborate** (215): to confirm
 * cudgel** (152): a short, thick stick used as a weapon.
 * incongruous** (216): Out of place; innapropriate
 * [[image:http://rhythmandspice.co.uk/images/tam_stick_wood_bras.jpg width="153" height="102" align="left" caption="A Cudgel."]]lumbago** (197): a reoccurring pain, usually found in the lower back
 * miasmas** (150): a dangerous and deathlike atmosphere
 * nuptial** (151): pertaining to marriage or even the marriage ceremony itself
 * pious** (206): having an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations
 * profligate** (192): utterly and shamelessly immoral
 * rectitude** (151): rightness of principle or concept
 * slovenly** (162): untidy in appearance or habits
 * snivelling**(145): to weep or cry; whine
 * sojourn** (151): a temporary stay or visit
 * somnambulism** (161): sleepwalking
 * sordid** (163): Dirty, rundown and poor

**__Section 3__**
**By: Laura Wiens**

**alienists** (356)- a doctor specializing in the treatment of mental illness. **ardour** (397)- great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion. **baleful** (321)- full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious. **benevolent** (309)- characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings. **bereaved** (360)- (of a person) greatly saddened at being deprived by death of a loved one. **camphor** (342)- a whitish, translucent, crystalline, pleasant-odored terpene ketone, obtained from the camphor tree, used chiefly in the manufacture of celluloid and in medicine as a counter-irritant for infections and in the treatment of pain and itching. **cess** (283)- a tax, assessment, or lien. **clairvoyant** (316)- having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision. **commodious** (292)- spacious and convenient; roomy; ample or adequate for a particular purpose. **frippery** (381)- finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like. **fusty** (283)- having a stale smell; moldy; musty; stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned. **gig** (322)- a light, two-wheeled one-horse carriage. **histrionic**(386)- deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech. **indolent** (346)- having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful. **muslin** (279)- a cotton fabric made in various degrees of fineness and often printed, woven, or embroidered in patterns, especially a cotton fabric of plain weave, used for sheets and for a variety of other purposes. **nasturtium** (291)**-** any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, cultivated for its showy, usually orange, red, or yellow flowers or for its fruit, which is pickled and used like capers. **parcel** (345)- an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle. **propitiate** (389)**-** to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate. **puritanical** (358)**-** very strict in moral or religious matters, often excessively so; rigidly austere. **scullery** (378)**-** a small room or section of a pantry in which food is cleaned, trimmed, and cut into cooking portions before being sent to the kitchen. **swathe** (279)**-** to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully. **tarry** (344)**-** to remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn: **weathervane** (308)**-** a device, as a rod to which a freely rotating pointer is attached, for indicating the direction of the wind. **__Secti__****__on 4:__** **By: Melina Thogersen**
 * abasement** (437): behave in a way so as to belittle or degrade (someone)
 * banal** (439): so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring
 * beseeching** (436): ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat
 * calamitous** (418): an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster
 * callousness** (426): showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others
 * churlishly** (449): rude in a mean-spirited and surly way
 * convolution** (445): a coil or twist, especially one of many
 * cowed** (425): cause someone to submit to one’s wishes by intimidation
 * effigy** (422): a sculpture or model or a person
 * ennui** (437): a feeling or listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement
 * farce** (449): a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situation
 * frivolity** (466): not having any serious purpose or value
 * habeas corpus** (449): a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person’s release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention
 * inquest** (426): a judicial inquiry or asce[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Laudanum.jpeg width="160" height="210" align="left" caption="Landanum"]]rtain the facts relating to an incident, such as death
 * jostling** (427): push, elbow, or bump against (someone) roughly, typically in a crowd
 * laxer** (447): not sufficiently strict or severe
 * languorous** (453): the state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia
 * laudanum** (438): an alcoholic solution containing morphine, prepared from opium and formerly used as a narcotic painkiller
 * ostentation** (465): pretentious and vulgar display, especially of wealth and luxury, intended to impress or attract notice
 * peignoir** (437): a woman’s light dressing down or negligee
 * pewter** (436): a gray alloy of tin with copper and antimony
 * reprimanded** (427): rebuke (someone), especially officially
 * semblance** (438): the outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different
 * sepulcher** (457): a small room or monument, cut in a rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried
 * stupor** (457): a state or near-unconsciousness or insensibility
 * vaguest** (438): of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning
 * writhes** (438): make continual twisting, squirming movement or contortions of the body

 Ardour (397)- baleful (321)- benevolent (309)- bereaved (360)- camphor (342)- cess (283)- clairvoyant (316)- commodious (292)- frippery (381)- fusty (283)- gig (322)- histrionic(386)- indolent (346)- muslin (279)- nasturtium (291)- parcel (345)- propitiate (389)- puritanical (358)- scullery (378)- swathe (279)- tarry (344)- weathervane (308)-