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100 words
Question | Answer |
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accolade | any award, honor, or laudatory notice |
acrimony | sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech |
angst | anxiety |
anomaly | a deviation from the common rule |
antidote | a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc. |
avant-garde | the advance group in any field |
baroque | extravagantly ornate, florid, and convoluted in character or style |
bona fide | made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud |
boondoggle | a product of simple manual skill |
bourgeois | a member of the middle class |
bravado | a pretentious, swaggering display of courage |
brogue | any strong regional accent |
brusque | abrupt in manner; blunt; rough |
byzantine | of or pertaining to Byzantium |
cacophony | harsh discordance of sound |
camaraderie | comradeship; good-fellowship |
capricious | subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim |
carte blanch | authority |
catch 22 | dilemma |
caustic | flammable |
charisma | quality that gives a person influence |
cloying | disgust through excess |
deja vu | the ilusion of being in the situation before |
dichotomy | division into 2 parts |
dilettante | lover of art |
disheveled | hanging loosely |
elan | liveliness |
ennui | lack of interest |
epitome | a high degree of something |
equanimity | calmness |
equivocate | to use unclear expressions |
esoteric | secret |
euphemism | substituation |
fait accompli | an accomplished act |
fastidious | hard to please |
faux pas | a sip of manner |
fiasco | failure |
finagle | to trick |
freudian | a slip in words that reveal a persons motives |
glib | fluent |
gregarious | sociable |
harbinger | forerunner |
hedonist | a person who is in the pursuit of happiness |
heresy | disbelief from others |
idiosyncratic | fare habit |
idylic | ideal |
indelicate | offensive |
infinitesimal | very small |
insidious | sneaky |
junket | journey |