1. Week 21 Vocabulary

2. The defendant abjured his former illegal activities and consequently received a lighter sentence.

3. Abjure – V – to renounce; recant; retract

4. The aggressive drill sergeant’s interest in romantic poetry was considered an anomaly by his collegues.

5. Anomaly – N – deviation from the norm; odd or peculiar occurrence

6. Oddly enough, the plaintiff recounted the story of her attack with perfect equanimity.

7. Equanimity – N – stability; calmness

8. Jill’s overbearing mother-in-law estranged Jill from her husband.

9. Estrange – V – to alienate

10. Many years ago, prisoners were sometimes tortured, then flayed alive by their captors.

11. Flay – V – to whip; remove skin

12. Her face was florid after her morning five- mile run.

13. Florid – adj – rosy-colored; reddish

14. In grade school, the last few days before a holiday vacation always seemed interminable.

15. Interminable – ADJ – tiresome; long

16. The comic tone of the play was undermined by the lugubrious funeral scene.

17. Lugubrious – ADJ – mournful; gloomy

18. Inmates complain that each day in prison is uneventful, ordinary and nondescript.

19. Nondescript – ADJ – having no individuality; amorphous

20. Discovering the old manifest for the sunken Spanish galleon proved propitious since it also showed the location of the gold

21. Propitious – ADJ – favorable; auspicious

22. Week 21 Vocabulary 1. Abjure – V – to renounce; recant; retract 2. Anomaly – N – deviation from the norm; odd or peculiar occurrence 3. Equanimity – N – stability; calmness 4. Estrange – V – to alienate 5. Flay – V – to whip; remove skin 6. Florid – adj – rosy-colored; reddish 7. Interminable – ADJ – tiresome; long 8. Lugubrious – ADJ – mournful; gloomy 9. Nondescript – ADJ – having no individuality; amorphous 10. Propitious – ADJ – favorable; auspicious