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TalbertK
100 words
Question | Answer |
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Accolade | award; sign of respect |
Acrimony | Bitterness or harshness of temper |
Angst | feeling of anxiety |
Anomaly | anything not within a pattern or abnormality |
Antidote | remedy for a poison |
Avant-garde | unorthodox style of art |
Baroque | Architecture characterised by curves instead of straight lines |
Bona fide | in good faith |
boondoggle | ornamental leather strap |
bourgeois | middle class |
Bravado | swaggering display of courage (fake) |
brogue | strong accent |
brusque | abrupt in manner |
byzantine | of or relating to the characteristics of an orthodox church |
cacophony | disordance of sound |
camaraderie | friendship |
capricious | subject to, led by |
carte-blanche | complete authoriy |
catch-22 | no win situation |
caustic | burning, corrosive |
charisma | a special quality in someone |
cloying | sweetness |
deja vu | feeling of having been in one place for or experienced something before |
dichotomy | division of two parts or groups |
dilettante | one who dabbles in the arts |
dishelved | to cause things to become disarranged |
elan | spirited self-assurance |
ennui | boredom |
epitome | marked by disorder |
equanimity | eveness of temper |
equivocate | to use, to decieve |
esoteric | understood only by a few |
euphemism | substitute of a vague expression |
fait accompli | accomplished fact |
fastidious | critical or demanding |
faux pas | embarrasing mistake |