today words,...

1. dale- broad valley
2. intone- to utter with a particular tone
3. gelding-castrated male animal,horse
4. verge-edge,rim,margin or,to be in transition to some state
5. avid-enthusiastic
6. cavalcade-procession of persons riding on horses
7. interment-the act of ceremony of burial
8. mercurial-changeable,volatile,fickle,flighty
9. impoverished-reduced to poverty
10. brougham-four wheeled boxlike close carriage
11. priory-religious house goverened by prior
12. derelict-left or neglected
13. cloister-covered walk in religious institution
14. conservatory-green house
15. astute-clever ,shrewd ,cunning,ingenious
16. guilding-any superficila coating or appaearence