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100 wordds
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accolade | any award,or honor |
| acrimony | sharpness |
| angst | a feeling of dread |
| anomaly | common rule |
| antidote | medicine or other remedy for counteracting poison |
| avant garde | advance group in any field |
| baroque | pertaining to a style of architecture and art |
| bona fide | true |
| boondoggle | work of little or no value pointless work |
| bourgeois | middle class |
| bravado | display of courage |
| brogue | Irish accent/ strong regional accent |
| brusque | abrupt in manner |
| byzantine | pertaining to Byzantium/architecture influenced |
| cacophony | harsh sound |
| camaraderie | good-fellowship |
| capricious | witty |
| carte blanche | unconditional authority |
| Catch-22 | lose lose |
| caustic | capable of burning |
| charisma | charm |
| cloying | disgust |
| déjà vu | illusion of previously experienced something actually being encountered for the first time |
| dichotomy | division into two parts |
| dilettante | subject merely for amusement |
| disheveled | unkempt |
| élan | clash |
| ennui | boredom |
| epitome | perfect example |
| equanimity | composure |
| equivocate | decive |
| esoteric | inside joke |
| euphemism | nice way of saying something |
| fait accompli | a fact |
| fastidious | excessively particular |
| faux pas | social mistake |
| fiasco | complete failure |
| finagle | trick/cheat |
| Freudian slip | mistake in speech or writing |
| glib | readily fluent |
| gregarious | fond of the company of others sociable |
| harbinger | foreshadow |
| hedonist | person whose life is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure |
| heresy | belief that varies |
| idiosyncratic | characteristic, habit, mannerism |
| idyllic | perfect |
| indelicate | indecebt |
| infinitesimal | small |
| insidious | snicky |
| junket | trip |
| kitsch | popular taste |
| litany | list |
| lurid | grusome |
| Machiavellian | of like befiting scheming |
| malaise | sickenss depression |
| malinger | pretened illness |
| mantra | word of formula |
| maudlin | tearfully or weakly emotional |
| mercenary | greedy for money |
| minimalist | person who favors a moderate approach of goals |
| misnomer | misapplied in appropraite |
| narcissist | inordinate fascination with oneself selflove |
| nirvana | freedom from the endless cycle of personal |
| non sequitur | illogical conclusion |
| nouveau riche | newly rich |
| oblivion | state of being completely forgotten |
| ogle | to stare |
| ostentatious | characterized by or given to pretentious |
| ostracize | to exclude,by general consent |
| panacea | remedy for all illness |
| paradox | statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory |
| peevish | fretful |
| perfunctory | preformed merely as a routine duty |
| philistine | a person who is lacking in or hostile |
| precocious | usually advance of mature |
| propriety | conformity |
| quid pro quo | trade off |
| quintessential | pure and concentraced |
| red herring | changing the subject |
| revel | to take intense plessure |
| rhetoric | |
| scintillating | |
| spartan | |
| stigma | |
| stoic | |
| suave | |
| Svengali | |
| sycophant | |
| teetotaler | |
| tête-à-tête | |
| tirade | |
| tryst | |
| ubiquitous | |
| unrequited | |
| untenable | |
| vicarious | |
| vile | |
| waft | |
| white elephant | |
| zealous |
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