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100 Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accolade | an award |
| Acrimony | Harsh or biting sharpness in words |
| Angst | anxiety |
| Anomaly | abnormal |
| Antidote | a remedy |
| Avant-Garde | orthodox art |
| Baroque | elaborate |
| Bona Fide | without fraud |
| Boondoggle | something homemade |
| Bourgeois | middle class |
| Bravado | swaggering display of courage |
| Brogue | strong regional accent |
| Brusque | abrupt in manner |
| Byzantine | complex or intricate |
| Cacophony | harsh dicordance of sound |
| Camaraderie | good-fellowship |
| Capricious | obsolete, witty |
| Charisma | charm |
| Cloying | causing or tending to cause disgust |
| Deja vu | an illusion of already been seen |
| Carte Blanche | unconditional authority |
| Catch-22 | a frustrating situation |
| Caustic | capable of burning living tissue |
| Dichotomy | division into 2 parts |
| Dilettante | a person that takes up an activity for amusement |
| disheveled | unorganized |
| Elan | dash |
| Ennui | boredom |
| Epitome | A model |
| Equanimity | calmness |
| Equivocate | to use ambiguous or unclear expressions |
| Esoteric | belonging to a select few |
| Euphemism | sarcasm |
| Fait Accompli | An accomplished fact |
| Fastidious | critical or demanding |
| Faux pas | a slip or blunder in manners |
| Fiasco | disaster |
| Gregarious | social |
| Harbinger | forerunner |
| Finagle | to trick |
| Freudian Slip | a slip of tongue |
| Glib | readily fluent |
| Hedonist | a person whos life is devoted to the pursuit of happiness |
| Heresy | belief strongly variance |
| Idiosyncratic | Quirk |
| Idyllic | tranquilic |
| Indelicate | indecent or improper |
| Infinitesimal | exceedingly small |
| Insidious | intended to entrap or beguile (sneaky) |
| Junket | A pleasure excursion |
| Kitsch | appeals to popular taste |
| Litany | repetitive recital |
| Lurid | gruesome |
| Machiavellian | cunning |
| Malaise | body weakness |
| Malinger | pretend illness |
| Mantra | recitation |
| Maudlin | weakly emotional |
| Mercenary | working only for money |
| Minimalist | holds minimal expectations for success |
| Misnomer | mistake |
| Narcissist | conceded |
| Nirvana | paradise |
| Non sequitur | common sense |
| Nouveau Riche | someone who is newly rich |
| Oblivion | the state of being completely forgotten |
| Ogle | gawk |
| Ostentatious | intended to attract notice |
| Ostracize | to exclude |
| Panacea | a cure |
| Paradox | a self-contradicting and false proposition |
| Peevish | irritable |
| Perfunctory | performed merely as a routine duty |
| Philistine | vulgarian |
| Precocious | advanced in development especially mentally |
| Propriety | rightness or justness |
| Quid Pro Quo | one thing in return for another |
| Quintessential | pureness |
| Red Herring | diversion |
| Revel | to celebrate |
| Rhetoric | persuading someone to do something |
| Scintillating | animated |
| Spartan | very minimal |
| Stigma | a mark of disgrace |
| Stoic | unemotional |
| Suave | smoothly agreeable |
| Svengali | a person who completely dominates another mentally |
| Sycophant | a self-seeker |
| Teetotaler | a person who abstains completely from alcohol |
| Tete-a-tete | a private conversation |
| Tirade | a long speach |
| Tryst | an appointed place of meeting lovers |
| Ubiquitous | being everywhere at the same time |
| Unrequited | not returned |
| Untenable | incapable of being defended |
| Vicarious | received in place of another |
| Vile | disgusting |
| Waft | to be carried lightly through air |
| White elephant | a possession unwanted by the owner |
| Zealous | full of, characterized by |
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