week 4 day 1/ day 2/ day 3 / day 4

day 1
alacrity : briskness, lively action
disdain : contempt
belligerent : warlike
intimidate : to overawe
feint : a false attack

day 2
pugnacious : quarrrelsome
promulgate : to make known officially
brash : impudent
scoff : to sneer at
belittle : to make seem less important

day 3
tangible : having actual form
laceration : jagged wound
castigate : to correct by punishing
sordid : dirty, base
octogenerian : person in his or her eighties

day 4
solace : easing of grief
aspirant : candidate for high position
dregs : most worthless part
frenzy : wild fit
scurrilous : coarse

to thrown doun the gauntlet : to challenge someone
feeling no pain : drunk
Hobson's choice : to have no choice at all
to rule the roost : to be in charge, to be master