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100 words

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Accolade award; sign of respect
Acrimony Bitterness or harshness of temper
Angst feeling of anxiety
Anomaly anything not within a pattern or abnormality
Antidote remedy for a poison
Avant-garde unorthodox style of art
Baroque Architecture characterised by curves instead of straight lines
Bona fide in good faith
boondoggle ornamental leather strap
bourgeois middle class
Bravado swaggering display of courage (fake)
brogue strong accent
brusque abrupt in manner
byzantine of or relating to the characteristics of an orthodox church
cacophony disordance of sound
camaraderie friendship
capricious subject to, led by
carte-blanche complete authoriy
catch-22 no win situation
caustic burning, corrosive
charisma a special quality in someone
cloying sweetness
deja vu feeling of having been in one place for or experienced something before
dichotomy division of two parts or groups
dilettante one who dabbles in the arts
dishelved to cause things to become disarranged
elan spirited self-assurance
ennui boredom
epitome marked by disorder
equanimity eveness of temper
equivocate to use, to decieve
esoteric understood only by a few
euphemism substitute of a vague expression
fait accompli accomplished fact
fastidious critical or demanding
faux pas embarrasing mistake
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