5 new words:
plaintive - Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy.
Usage: A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine.
crass - So crude and unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility.
Usage: Jenny's strict mother was horrified by the crass behavior of the young man whom her daughter had befriended.
virid - Bright green with or as if with vegetation.
Usage: The lake was virid with bright algae on the surface.
trenchant - Having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect.
Synonyms: searching
Usage: His trenchant criticism redirected the debate and gave everyone something new to consider.
torpid - Lethargic; apathetic.
Usage: They are always in a torpid state, and are apt to yawn and go to sleep over any intellectual toil.