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McIlwaineM
100 words of crap (for maranda)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accolade | award or honor |
| acrimony | harsh |
| angst | feeling of anxiety |
| anomaly | a deviation from the common rule |
| antidote | remedy that counteracts poison |
| avant-garde | intelligentsia who develops new concepts |
| baroque | flourished |
| bona fide | good faith; no fraud |
| boondoggle | product of simple manual skill |
| bourgeois | middleclass |
| bravado | display of courage |
| brogue | strong regional accent |
| brusque | blunt |
| byzantine | extravigantly complex |
| cacophony | harsh sounds |
| camaraderie | comradship |
| capricious | erratic; subject to |
| carte-blanche | unconditional authority |
| catch-22 | one trapped by contradictory conditions |
| caustic | destroying live tissue |
| charisma | a devinely conferred gift (power) |
| cloying | disgust |
| deja vu | illusion of previously experiencing something for the first time |
| dichotomy | divide into 2 parts |
| dilettante | someone who does art |
| elan | dash |
| ennui | feeling of utter weariness |
| epitome | posesses to a high degree |
| equanimity | emotional or mental stabiliy |
| equivocate | to avoid commiting to what you say |
| esoteric | knowledge by a small group |
| euphemism | place of a mild expression for a harsh one |
| fait accompli | accomplished fact |
| fastidious | hard to please |
| faux pas | a slip up in manners |
| fiasco | complete failure |
| finagle | cheat |
| freudian slip | a mistake in speech |
| glib | readily fluent |
| gregarious | sociably active |
| harbinger | person who makes known the approach of another |
| hedonist | life devoted to self gradification |
| heresy | belief thats strongly variance |
| idiosyncratic | physical constitution peticular to a person |
| idyllic | charmingly simple |
| indelicate | rough |
| infinitesimal | exceedingly small |
| insidious | intended to entrap |
| junket | pleasure excursion; picnic |
| kitsch | something to appeal to popular taste |
| litany | recital of items |
| lurid | horrible |
| machiavellian | cunning; whatever it takes |
| malaise | condition of body weakness |
| malinger | to pretend illness |
| mantra | sung like a prayer |
| maudlin | weakly emotional |
| mercenary | working only for money or reward |
| minimalist | holds minimal expectations for success (favors moderate approach) |
| misnomer | error in naming something |
| narcissist | excessive self-love |
| nirvana | oblivious to pain or worry |
| nonsequitur | statement with no possible conclusion |
| nouveau riche | person who is newly rich |
| oblivion | completely forgotten |
| ogle | stare at |
| ostentatious | being very showy to try and impress |
| ostracize | banish or exclude |
| panacea | cure for all illness or disease |
| paradox | statement that contradicts itself |
| peevish | irritable |
| perfunctory | done routinely with little care |
| philistine | person whos indifferent to art |
| precocious | unusual early development |
| propriety | conformity to previaling usages |
| quid pro quo | something given in return for something else |
| quitessential | being the best example of its kind |
| red herring | something that draws attention away from matter at hand |
| revel | taking great pleasure in something |
| rhetoric | wordiness; long speech |
| scintillating | bright; stimulating |
| spartan | ecinomical (simple) |
| stigma | shame |
| stoic | philosophic; calm |
| suave | charming |
| svengali | someone who dominates another |
| sycophant | someone who caters another |
| teetotaler | something who stays completely away from alcoholic beverages |
| tete-a-tete | private conversation (heart-to-heart) |
| tirade | long angry speech |
| tryst | appointment made by lovers to meet at a certain time and place |
| ubiquitous | seems to be everywhere at the same time |
| unrequited | not returning something nicely |
| untenable | not able to be defended |
| vicarious | felt as in one taking part in whats happened to another (being "into" a movie) |
| vile | evil or wicked |
| waft | moving lightly through water or air |
| white elephant | little value, but costs a lot to keep conditioned |
| zealous | enthusiastic |
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