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KIMREYJ
100 Words
| 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 | a product of simple manual skill, as a plaited leather cord for the neck or a knife sheath, made typically by a camper or a scout. |
| bourgeois | a member of the middle class |
| bravado | a pretentious, swaggering display of courage. |
| brogue | an Irish accent in the pronunciation of English. |
| brusque | abrupt in manner; blunt; rough |
| byzantine | pertaining to or designating the style of the fine or decorative arts |
| cacophony | harsh discordance of sound; dissonance |
| camaraderie | comradeship; good-fellowship |
| capricious | subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic |
| carte blanche | unconditional authority; full discretionary power. |
| catch-22 | |
| caustic | |
| charisma | |
| cloying | |
| deja vu | |
| dichotomy | |
| dilettante | |
| disheveled | |
| élan | |
| ennui | |
| epitome | |
| equanimity | |
| equivocate | |
| esoteric | |
| euphemism | |
| fait accompli | |
| fastidious | |
| faux pas | |
| fiasco | |
| finagle | |
| Freudian slip | |
| glib | |
| gregarious | |
| harbinger | |
| hedonist | |
| heresy | |
| idiosyncratic | |
| idyllic | |
| indelicate | offensive to a sense of generally accepted propriety, modesty, or decency; improper, unrefined, or coarse |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably small; less than an assignable quantity |
| insidious | intended to entrap or beguile: an insidious plan |
| junket | a sweet, custardlike food of flavored milk curdled with rennet. |
| kitsch | something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste |
| litany | a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession. |
| lurid | gruesome; horrible; revolting |
| Machiavellian | characterized by subtle or unscrupulous cunning, deception, expediency, or dishonesty |
| malaise | a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease. |
| malinger | to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc. |
| mantra | a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer. |
| maudlin | tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental |
| mercenary | working or acting merely for money or other reward; venal |
| minimalist | a person who favors a moderate approach to the achievement of a set of goals or who holds minimal expectations for the success of a program. |
| misnomer | a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation |
| narcissist | inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. |
| nirvana | a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world. |
| non sequitur | an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises. |
| nouveau riche | a person who is newly rich |
| oblivion | the state of being completely forgotten or unknown |
| ogle | to look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently |
| ostentatious | characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others |
| ostracize | to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc |
| panacea | a remedy for all disease or ills |
| paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| peevish | cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent |
| perfunctory | performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial |
| philistine | a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement |
| precocious | unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development |
| propriety | conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners. |
| quid pro quo | one thing in return for another. |
| quintessential | the pure and concentrated essence of a substance. |
| red herring | something intended to divert attention from the real problem or matter at hand |
| revel | to take great pleasure or delight |
| rhetoric | the undue use of exaggeration or display |
| scintillating | animated |
| spartan | suggestive of the ancient Spartans; sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere |
| stigma | a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation. |
| stoic | of or pertaining to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity. |
| suave | smoothly agreeable or polite |
| Svengali | a person who completely dominates another, usually with selfish or sinister motives. |
| sycophant | a self-seeking, servile flatterer |
| teetotaler | a person who abstains totally from intoxicating drink. |
| tet-a-tete | a private conversation or interview |
| tirade | a prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation |
| tryst | an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers. |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time |
| unrequited | not returned or reciprocated |
| untenable | incapable of being defended, as an argument, thesis, etc |
| vicarious | performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another |
| vile | wretchedly bad |
| waft | to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water |
| white elephant | possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of |
| zealous | full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent. |
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