Vocab 
– Can you guess what the underlined words mean?

Penury= extreme poverty/ “he died in a state of virtual penury”
Sanguine= optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation
Appraise= assess the value or quality of something, set a price of value to something/ she stealthily appraised him in a pocket mirror/ they appraised the painting at $200,000
Ascertain= verb,  find something out for certain, make sure of/ an attempt to ascertain the cause of the accident
Assay= verb, to determine the content or quality of (metal or ore)
Descry= to catch sight of/ she descried two figures.
Anomaly= something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected./
Homonym= when two words are spelled exactly the same but mean two different things- like bear (noun) and bear (verb)
Epigram= a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way/ At his daughter’s wedding, Jason shared a heartwarming epigram he had written.
Graphite= a gray crystalline allotropic form of carbon which occurs as a mineral in some rocks and can be made from coke. It is used as a solid lubricant (Google)