Your ten new vocabulary words for the week are as follows:
- bacchanalian (adj) - involving wild, noisy behaviour and much alcohol consumption
- nugatory (adj) - having no power, worth or meaning
- askew (adj) - at an angle; not straight
- gauche (adj) - awkward or clumsy in social situations
- lacerate (v) - to tear or deeply cut (usually skin)
- peril (n) - a source of danger
- mitigate (v) - to reduce the severity of something
- caveat (n) - a warning (caveat emptor means buyer beware)
- mooncalf (n) - a foolish person
- changeling (n) - a child believed to have been secretly switched at birth by fairies for the parents' real child
