| Term | Definition |
| ACCOLADE | any award, honor or laudatory notice |
| Austerity | severity of manner, life etc: sterness, The trait of self denial |
| bantam | a small and fiesty or quarrelsome person |
| bellicose | inclined or eager to fight, aggressively hostile, belligenant pugnacious |
| blitzkrieg | a swift sudden military attack or offense |
| capacious | capable of containing a large quantity |
| cogitation | thoughtful consideration; meditation a serious thought; a carefully considered reflection |
| contentious | tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome 2.causing involving or characterized by argument or controversy |
| denude | to make naked or bare; strip |
| derision | a.contemptous or jeering laughter b.a state of being derided c.an objext of laughing |
| effulgence | shining forth brilliantly; radiant |
| encumbrance | something burdensome, useless |
| exhorted | to make urgent of appeal |
| furlough | millitary- a vacation |
| impindge | to make and impression..have aneffect or impact b. to encroch: infringe |