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100 words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accolade | any award, honor, or laudatory notice |
| acrimony | harshness of speech |
| angst | a feeling of anxiety |
| anomaly | a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form. |
| antidote | something to counteract poison |
| avant-garde | the advance group in any field whose work is unorthodox |
| baroque | extravagantly ornate |
| bona fide | geniune |
| boondoggle | product of simple skill |
| bourgeois | middle class |
| bravado | swaggering display of courage |
| brogue | storng accent |
| brusque | abrupt in manner |
| byzantine | of or pertaining to Byzantium |
| cacophony | harsh discordance of sound |
| camaraderie | fellowship |
| capricious | led by |
| carte blanche | unconditional authority |
| Catch 22 | frustrating situation |
| caustic | corrosive |
| charisma | personal quality that gives an individual influence |
| cloying | disgust |
| deja vu | the illusion of having previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time |
| dichotomy | division into two parts |
| dilettante | a person who takes up an art |
| disheveled | hanging loosely |
| elan | dash |
| ennui | feeling of utter weariness |
| epitome | person who posseses a high degree |
| equanimity | mental or emotional stability |
| equivocate | to mislead |
| esteric | belonging to the select few |
| euphemism | substitutuion of a vague expression |
| fait accompli | accomplished fact |
| fastidious | hard to please |
| faux pas | slip in manners |
| fiasco | complete failure |
| finagle | to trick or cheat |
| Freudian slip |
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