New words that come up in Bond Papers

I keep making notes of new words tha come up, when my son does his papers. Here they are:

• overcast
• kindle
• potent
• hinder = impede =retard
• desist = cease
• abstain
• abrupt
• peerless
• apparel
• contrite =crushed in spirit by a sense of sin
• hasten=accelerate
• elude =escape, slip away
• lucid=bright, clear
• weir=dam, barrier across the river
• confer=discuss
• tardy=slow, late