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Reitzel B
100 words to make you sound smarter
Question | Answer |
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accolade | award |
acrimony | animosity |
angst | anxiety |
anomaly | different from the normal |
antidote | remedy |
avant-garde | creative |
baroque | flamboyant |
bona fide | genuine |
boondoggle | junk |
bourgeois | comman man |
bravado | altered |
brogue | accent |
brusque | blunt to the point of being rude |
byzantine | complicated |
cacophony | harsh, discord |
camaderie | companionship |
capricious | erratic |
carte blanche | authority |
catch-22 | stalemate, dictator |
caustic | acidic |
charisma | charm |
cloying | sappy |
deja vu | recongnition |
dichotomy | separated |
dilettante | amateur |
disheveled | messy |
elan | animation |
ennui | depression |
epitome | illustration |
equanimity | serenity |
equivocate | decieve, evade |
esoteric | understood, private |
euphemism | cushioning |
fait accompli | past |
fastidious | exacting |
faux pas | bloopers |
finagle | bamboozle |
freudian slip | faulty action |
glib | articulate |
gregarious | out going |
harbinger | to foreshadow |
hedonist | glutton |
heresy | disbelief |
idiosyncratic | distinctive |
idyllic | charming |
indelicate | vulgar |
fiasco | calamity |