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100 workd
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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