WORD POWER WORDS Week One: ascend: to go up; rise avail: help; benefit awe: great fear and wonder Week Two: barren: empty blunt: dull bounty: reward Week Three: absolutely: definitely adequate: enough calculate: figure mathematically Week Four: cherish: hold dear; love chuckle: laugh competent: capable Week Five: compliment: kind praise of another condiment: sauce or relish contemplate: consider carefully Week Six: converge: meet crisis: stressful event decompose: rot Week Seven: defy: oppose; refuse to cooperate discontent: dissatisfaction efficient: quickly effective Week Eight: enclose: insert OR to surround on all sides endeavor: try fatigue: extremely tired; weariness Week Nine: puzzle and Test 1 Week Ten: flee: run away frail: weak; delicate garments: clothes Week Eleven: hardy: in sturdy good health hover: float above inevitable: impossible to avoid Week Twelve: inhabit: to live in inherit: receive from an ancestor intense: extreme Week Thirteen: lair: den leisure: free time; convenience lofty: high Week Fourteen: mature: fully grown mishap: accident nervous: anxious Week Fifteen: nomad: wanderer notion: idea object: not want; refuse Week Sixteen: obscure: unknown obligation: duty omit: leave out Week Seventeen: panic: fear ornate: fancy phenomenal: outstanding