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HatleyV
100 workd
Question | Answer |
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accolade | a award, honar |
acrimony | harshness in a speech |
angst | feeling dread, anxiety, or anguish |
anomaly | a devatation from the common rule, type, or form |
antidote | medicen for posiens |
avant-garde | advance group in any feild, ground breaking |
barogue | style of art in the 17th century, inegular shape |
bonafide | authentic, true |
boondoggle | trying to look busy when you have nothing to do |
bourgeois | member of the middle class |
bravado | swaggering display of courage |
brogue | any strong regional accient |
brusque | abruption in manner, blunt, rough |
byzantine | fine arts |
cacophony | harsh disordance of sound |
camaraderie | good fellowship |
capricious | subject to |
carte blanche | full power |
catch 22 | a fustrating situation in wish one is trapped by conditions |
caustic | capable of burning or destorying live tissue |
charisma | a gift of power |
cloying | sickly sweet |
deja vu | already seen or experience |
dichlomy | division |
dilettante | a person who takes up an art for amusement |
disheveled | wrinkled unkept apperence |
elan | dash, impetuous order |
ennui | lack of interest |
epitome | a person that is typical of a high degree, the features of a whole class |
equanimity | mental or emotional stability |
equivocate | to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, to deceave |
esoteric | inside joke, understood by a few |
euphemism | thought to be offensive |
fait accompli | an accomplished fact |
fastidious | (ocd) critical or demanding |
faux pas | embarrising, mistake |
fiasco | a complete failure |
finagle | to tric or cheat |
freudian slip | slip of the tounge, saying something your not suppose to |
glib | readily fluent, often thought lessly so |
gregarious | sociable |
harbinger | forerunner |
hedonist | life to pleasure |
hersey | opinion |
idiosyncratic | peculiar |
idyllic | perfect |
indelicate | obscene |
infinitesinal | small |
insidious | sneaky |
junket | a trip |
kitsch | appeal to popular taste |
litany | recilifiction that resemble a litany |
lurid | norrible |
machiavellian | cunning |
malasie | condition of bosy weakness |
malinger | pretend illness |
mantra | expressing something over and over again |
maudin | weakly emotional |
mercenary | working for money or a reward |
minimalist | low expectation |
narcissist |