By Holly Dayton ’13, Lens Section Editor

This is the third series of ten words you can use in everyday life to properly express yourself (when you’re searching for the elusive word), to impress a teacher or to show your parents that that CCDS education is really going somewhere. The challenge is use every word during school in one week, and the ultimate challenge is to use all of them in one day! Good luck!

1. jubilant: noun, showing great joy, rejoicing

Dolly was jubilant when she discovered that she had aced her biology exam.

2. alacrity: noun, cheerful readiness

I awoke with alacrity at 6:30 that morning, only to discover that it was Christmas Eve Day, and not Christmas at all.

3. stertor: noun, a heavy snoring sound

Sometimes our evening television is interrupted by the stertor of my dog in the corner, in which case we rouse her and move her so we can hear our program!

4. dipsomania: noun, a sudden, irresistible urge for an alcoholic drink

Little Jimmy was surprised when his uncle sprung up from the sofa and sprinted to the bar, but his mother told him later that Uncle Roger suffers from dipsomania.

5. unanimity: noun, consensus or divided opinion, state of being unanimous

The judges on reality TV show Dancing with the Stars are not known for their unanimity; the disagree on almost every dance.

6. sadist: noun, a person who enjoys the pain of others

Though the desire to pass of teachers as sadists who love seeing us suffer under excessive homework, it is important to remember that they are assigning it to help us learn (or so they say…).

7. folly: noun, being foolish, a foolish action, absurdity

Judith considered helping Orion, but decided that it was his own folly which had got him into such a mess, and that it was his job to extricate himself from it.

8. quixotic: adjective, impractical, bizarre, rashly unpredictable

Though her habit of putting peanut butter on her steak was quixotic, no one ever commented on it at the lunch table.

9. gambol: verb, to skip and dance about, frolic

As was typical at Christmas, we woke up absurdly early and gamboled around the tree, admiring our presents.

10. CHALLENGE WORD: anoesis: noun, state of pure emotion with thought

When Professor Wentworth told Frances she had won the scholarship, she ran up and kissed him in a state of utter anoesis, absolute happiness.