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GranadosA
cien palabras que te hacen inteligente
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accolade | reward, praise |
| acrimony | sharpness of attitude |
| angst | dread, anxiety |
| anomaly | different than the norm |
| antidote | remedy |
| avant-garde | advanced group |
| baroque | ornate |
| bona fide | genuine, honest |
| boondoggle | simple |
| bourgeois | middle class |
| bravado | display of courage |
| brogue | irish accent |
| brusque | abrupt in speech or manner |
| byzantine | complex |
| cacophony | discordance of sound |
| camaraderie | good fellowship |
| capricious | erratic, obslete |
| carte blanche | unconditional authority |
| catch-22 | a dilemma |
| caustic | burning, cunning |
| charisma | great personal charm |
| cloying | to casue disgust, excess |
| deja vu | already seen or done |
| dichotomy | divide into 2 |
| dilettante | person who takes up an art or an activity |
| disheveled | loose |
| elan | dash |
| ennui | boredom |
| epitome | the best model |
| equanimity | calmness |
| equivocate | to lie |
| esoteric | inside joke |
| euphemism | to say something nice in place of something harsh |
| fait accompli | accomplished fact |
| fastidious | annoying |
| faux pas | social blunder |
| fiasco | complete failure |
| finagle | to trick |
| freudian slip | a mistake in speech |
| glib | readily fluent |
| gregarious | social |
| harbinger | foreshadows |
| hedonist | persue of self pleasure |
| heresy | variance of opinion |
| idiosyncratic | habit to a group |
| idyllic | pleasant |
| indelicate | vulgar, obscene |
| infinitesimal | small |
| insidious | intended to entrap |
| junket | a trip. excursion |
| kitsch | appeals to popular taste |
| litany | recital |
| lurid | gruesome |
| machiavellian | cunning |
| malaise | condition of sickness |
| malinger | to pretend illness |
| mantra | a word or phrase said repeatedly |
| maudlin | tearfully or weakly emotional |
| mercenary | working or acting merely for money |
| minimalist | a person who favors a moderate approach |
| misnomer | misspelled name |
| narcissist | excessive self love |
| nirvana | state of freedom |
| non sequitur | conclusion that does not follow the norm |
| nouveau riche | a person who is newly rich |
| oblivion | totally unaware |
| ogle | to stare at flirtatiously |
| ostentatious |
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