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Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accolade | any award, honor, or laudatory notice |
| acrimony | sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition, etc |
| angst | a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish |
| anomaly | a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form |
| antidote | a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc |
| avant-garde | the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods |
| baroque | extravagantly ornate, florid, and convoluted in character or style |
| bona fide | made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud |
| boondoggle | work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy |
| bourgeois | of or pertaining to the middle class |
| bravado | swaggering courge |
| brogue | any strong regional accent |
| brusque | abrupt in manner, rough, blunt |
| byzantine | elaborate |
| cacophony | harsh discordance of sound |
| camaraderie | friendship |
| capricious | erratic |
| carte blanche | unconditional authority |
| Catch-22 | a no win situation |
| caustic | corrosive |
| charisma | charm |
| cloying | too much of something |
| deja vu | already seen or experienced |
| dichotomy | divide into 2 parts |
| dilettante | a person who takes up an art |
| disheveled | unkempt in appearance |
| elan | impetuous |
| ennui | feeling of utter weariness from lack of interest |
| epitome | perfect example |
| equanimity | emotional stability |
| equivocate | to use unclear expressions |
| esoteric | understood or meant for a select few |
| euphemism | a nice way of putting something harsh |
| fait accompli | accomplished fact |
| fastidious | excessively critical |
| faux pas | clumsy social error |
| fiasco | complete failure |
| finagle | to trick |
| freudian slip | a slip of the tounge |
| glib | readily fluent |
| gregarious | sociable |
| harbinger | herald |
| hedonist | pleasure seeker |
| heresy | crime against the church |
| idiosyncratic | peculiar characteristic to an individual |
| idyllic | charmingly simple |
| indellicate | vulgar |
| infinitesimal | really small |
| insidious | intended to entrap |
| junket | a pleasure outing |
| kitsch | appeals to popular taste |
| litany | recital of items |
| machiavellian | decietful |
| malaise | body weakness |
| malinger | to pretend illness |
| mantra | word or formula |
| maudlin | weakly emotional |
| mercenary | working for jusst money |
| minimalist | one who likes the minimum |
| lurid | gruesome |
| misnomer | error in naming a person or thing |
| narcissist | one who is vain |
| nirvina | freedom from the world |
| nonsequitar | illogical conclusion |
| nouveau riche | person who is newly rich |
| oblivion | state of confusion |
| ogle | to look or stare |
| ostentatious | overly showy |
| ostracize | exile, banish |
| panacea | cure-all |
| paradox | contrary to recieved opinion |
| peevish | cantankerous |
| perfunctory | superficial |
| philistine | barbaric |
| precocious | unusually advanced |
| propriety | conformity to proper behavior |
| quid pro quo | fair trade |
| quintessential | epitome |
| red herring | something that distracts from the main issue |
| revel | to take grea pleasure or delight |
| rhetoric | art of using language persuasively |
| scintillating | animated |
| spartan | minimalist |
| stigma | mark of shame |
| stoic | unemotional |
| suave | smooth |
| svengali | complete dominance of another |
| teetotaler | someone who abstains from drinking |
| tete-a-tete | private conversation |
| tirade | rant |
| tryst | a secret meeting between lovers |
| ubiquitious | omnipresent |
| unrequited | not felt in return |
| untenable | cannot be maintained |
| vicarious | substitute |
| vile | wicked |
| waft | to carry or propel |
| white elephant | object no longer desired by its owner |
| zealous | devoted to a purpose, enthusiastic |
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