Thursday, July 1, 2010

Word Powers Adjudicators

Whelp (welp) (noun): the young of any mammal, a despised youth or an impudent young person

The lioness watched over her whelps as they playfully tumbled in the grass.

               

Interregnum (in-ter-reg-nuhm) (noun): an interval of time between the close of a sovereign's reign and the accession of a legitimate successor

After the king’s death, there was an interregnum of a month before the prince was officially crowned.



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