Save the Word Sunday — Week 15

• Cire (noun) - a smooth, shiny finish for fabrics achieved by applying wax

• Farrago (noun) - a confused or heterogeneous mixture; hodgepodge

• Lachrymose (adjective) - inclined to tears; mournful

• Palimpsest (noun) - a writing surface used one or more times after earlier writing has been scraped or removed

• Tatterdemalion (noun) - a person dressed in ragged or shabby garb