New words

Lurk

Sneak and stalk

Skewer

A long, thin pin, exposing someone

Commerce

Trade

Lavish

Abundant

Conundrum

Puzzle

Catatonic

Awake with no response

Penchant

A penchant for old movies

Feeble

Weakness

Rapturous

Ecstatic, thrilled

Admonish

Tell someone not to do sth

Arbitrary

Based on personal choice with no reason

Autonomy

Agency

Pitfall

Trap

Substantive

Important

Conard

Misleading

Dispossess

Deprive someone of sth they possess

Constructive

Improving

Undisputable

Impossible to doubt or challenge; completely certain.

Latent

Existing but hidden, dormant, or not yet manifest.

Grotesque

Bizarre, distorted, or unnatural

Vis-à-vis

In relation to or compared with

Stipulate

Specify as a required condition

Opulence

Great wealth or luxuriousness

Vindicate

Clear of blame or suspicion

Futility

Pointlessness or uselessness

Implacable

Unable to be appeased or stopped

Sally

an action of rushing or bursting forth

Appease

to make concessions to (someone, such as an aggressor or a critic) often at the sacrifice of principles

Squander

to spend foolishly or wastefully

Ascertain

to find out or learn with certainty

Scurrilous

vulgar and evil

Allay

To reduce in intensity or severity

Abortive

unsuccessful in achieving the desired conclusion or result

Compact

predominantly formed or filled

The story is compact of touching reminiscences.

Contaminate

to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association

Tacit

expressed or carried on without words or speech

The blush … was a tacit answer …

—Bram Stoker

Dwindle

to become steadily less, shrink

Predominantly

Mainly

Memorandum

an informal record

Expropriation

to deprive of possession or proprietary rights

Conducive

tending to promote or assist

Modality

the quality or state of being modal

a modal quality or attribute : form

Toil

long strenuous fatiguing labor

Set forth

to give an account or statement of/ to start out on a journey

Contraband

illegal or prohibited traffic in goods, smuggling

Fiat

an authoritative or arbitrary order

Lease

a legal agreement that lets someone use a car, house, etc., for a period of time in return for payment

Predicative

expressing affirmation or predication

Revision

a change or a set of changes that corrects or improves something

Stewardship

the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care