11/25

pier (noun)

    A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
    A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.

rejuvenate (verb)

    To render young again.

seclusion (noun)

    The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; a shutting out or keeping apart, or the state of being shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; retirement; privacy; solitude: as, to live in seclusion.
    A secluded place.

seclude (verb)

    To shut off or keep apart, as from company, society, etc.; withdraw from society or into solitude: as, to seclude oneself from the world.
    To shut or keep out; exclude; preclude.

stow (verb)

    to put something away in a compact and tidy manner
    to put something away to store it in a space saving manner and over long time

11/26

attire (noun)

    One's dress; what one wears; one's clothes.
        e.g.: He was wearing his formal attire.
    The single horn of a deer or stag.

canteen (noun)

    a small cafeteria or snack bar, especially one in a military establishment, school, or place of work
    a temporary or mobile café used in an emergency or on a film location etc
    a box with compartments for storing eating utensils, silverware etc
    a military mess kit

utensil (noun)

    An instrument or device for domestic use, in the kitchen, or in war.
    A small hand tool or material-handling implement specialized for specific types of processing such as is used in the kitchen or a laboratory.

mess kit (noun)

    A compact set of eating utensils (including plate, cup, utensils) and sometimes cooking pots etc, used in the field by soldiers and by campers.
    A formal uniform, worn for occasions such as mess dinners.


cosmopolitan (adjective)

    all-inclusive; affecting the whole world
    composed of people from all over the world
    at ease in any part of the world

11/27

culinary (adjective)

    Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
        e.g.: Her culinary skills were excellent.
    Of, or relating to a kitchen

detrimental (adjective)

    Causing damage or harm.
        e.g.: Smoking tobacco can be detrimental to your health.

dexterous (adjective)

    Skillful with one's hands.
    Skillful in some specific thing
    Agile; flexible; able to move fluidly and gracefully.

agile (adjective)

    Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

discrete (adjective)

    Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous.
    That can be perceived individually and not as connected to, or part of something else.

11/28

singleton (noun)

    A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
    A single object, especially one of a group.

envision (verb)

    To conceive or see something within one's mind. To imagine.

facetious (adjective)

    Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
        e.g.: Robbie's joke about Heather's picture was just him being facetious.
    Pleasantly humorous, jocular.

knead (verb)

    ​To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
    To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.

optimum (noun)

    The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances.

11/29

ostentatious (adjective)

    Of ostentation.
    Intended to attract notice.
    Of tawdry display; kitsch.

tawdry (adjective)

    Cheap and gaudy; showy.
    Unseemly, base, shameful.

kitsch (noun)

    Art, decorative objects and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar.

gaudy (adjective)

    very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner

vulgar (adjective)

    Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.
    Having to do with ordinary, common people.