5. Week: A period of seven days.
Noun: Any day of the week is fine.
10. Century: A period of one hundred years.
Noun: The city won its liberty in the sixteenth century.
17. Moody: Given to unpredictable changes of mood, especially sudden bouts of gloominess or sullenness.
Adjective: A veces estaba de mal humor y se irritaba fácilmente.
19. Flogged: Beat (someone) with a whip or stick as punishment or torture.
Verb: The boy was cruelly flogged for stealing.
13. Silence: Complete absence of sound.
Noun: Silence in times of suffering is the best.
3. Minute: A period of time equal to sixty seconds or a sixtieth of an hour.
Noun: Sixty seconds makes a minute.
14. Childhood: The state of being a child.
Noun: Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
20. Lyrics: A lyric poem or verse.
Noun: He wrote the lyrics to our first song.
6. Month: Each of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided.
Noun: December is the last month of the year.
12. Feature: A distinctive attribute or aspect of something.
Noun: This is a key feature of our society.
9. Decade: A period of ten years.
Noun: In the past decade, the city has been reborn.
16. Distressed: Suffering from anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
Adjective: She was too exhausted and distressed to talk about the tragedy.
2. Time: The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
Noun: There is a time for all things.
18. Coffin: A long, narrow box, typically of wood, in which a corpse is buried or cremated.
Noun: The coffin was placed in the grave.
11. Millennium: A period of a thousand years, especially when calculated from the traditional date of the birth of Christ.
Noun: As the new millennium opened, money talked.
8. Leap year: A year, occurring once every four years, that has 366 days including February 29 as an intercalary day.
Noun: This is a leap year.
7. Year: The time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun.
Noun: La Navidad llega pero una vez al año.
15. Prayer: A solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or an object of worship.
Noun: Prayer is a form of communion with God.
4. Hour: A period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes.
Noun: An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day.
1. Second: formally support or endorse as a necessary preliminary to adoption or further discussion.
Verb: A friend is, as it were, a second self.