Wordy Wednesday

LAST WEEK'S WORDS:
maunder: to talk or wander aimlessly.
felicitous: apt or appropriate; also, delightful.
abeyance: suspension; temporary cessation.
billet: to quarter, or place in lodgings.
fungible: interchangeable.
soporific: causing sleep; also, something that causes sleep.
forfend: to avert; also, to protect or preserve.

THIS WEEK'S WORDS:
asseverate: to affirm or declare positively or earnestly.
carapace: a shell; a protective covering.
quiescent: at rest; still; inactive.
agog: in eager desire.
hoi polloi: the common people; the masses.
perseverate: to repeat something insistently or redundantly.
exegesis: critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text.