Since I didn’t get a chance to post any words of the week last week, I’m going to post ten words instead of five this week.  Here are this week’s words:

1. Noisome: offensive or disgusting, as an odor.
2. Nostrum: a scheme, theory, device, etc., esp. one to remedy social or political ills; panacea.
3. Nugatory: of no force or effect; ineffective; futile; vain.
4. Obdurate: stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent.
5. Obstreperous: noisy, clamorous, or boisterous.
6. Onerous: burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship.
7. Opprobrium: the disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy.
8. Ossify: to convert into or cause to harden like bone.
9. Palliate: to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.
10. Panacea: a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all.