Words of Week 30

Covet: Yearn to possess or have
Deadlock: A situation, typically one involving opposing parties, in which no progress can be made
Penurious: Extremely poor; poverty-stricken
Defunct: No longer existing or functioning
Choleric: Bad-tempered or irritable
Dispel: Make (a doubt, feeling, or belief) disappear
Gaunt: (of a person) Lean and haggard, esp. because of suffering, hunger, or age
Dissonance: Lack of harmony among musical notes