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100 words you will never need to know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accolade | A ceremonial embrace |
| Acrimony | speech |
| Angst | anxiety |
| Anomaly | deivation from the norm |
| Antidote | Cure |
| Avant-garde | advanced group |
| Baroque | flamboyant |
| Bona Fide | Authentic |
| Boondoggle | Product of simple skill |
| Bourgeois | Middle Class |
| Bravado | Display of fake courage |
| Brogue | An irish accent |
| Brusque | Abrupt in manner |
| Byzantine | Well-liked architecture |
| Cacophony | Harsh sounds |
| Camarederie | Good fellowship |
| Capricious | Obsolete |
| Carte Blanche | Authority |
| Catch 22 | Dilemma |
| Caustic | Flammable |
| Charisma | Quality that gives a person influence |
| Cloying | Disgust through excess |
| Deja Vu | The illusion of being in a situation before |
| Dichtomy | Division into 2 parts |
| Dilettante | Lover of art |
| Disheveled | Hanging loosely |
| Elan | Liveliness |
| Ennui | Lack of interest |
| Epitome | A high degree of something |
| Equanimity | Calmness |
| Equivocate | Unclear expression to decieve |
| Esoteric | Secret |
| Eupherism | Substitution |
| Fait Accompli | An accomplished fact |
| Fastidious | Hard to please |
| Faux Pas | A slip of manner |
| Fiasco | Failure |
| Finagle | To trick |
| Freudian Slip | A slip in words that reveal a person's motives |
| Glib | Fluent |
| Gregarious | Sociable |
| Harbinger | Forerunner |
| Hedonist | Person who is in the pursuit of happiness |
| Heresy | Disbelief from others |
| Idiosyncratic | Rare habit |
| Idyllic | ideal |
| Indelicate | Offensive |
| Infinitesimal | Very small |
| Insidious | Sneaky |
| Junket | journey |
| Kitsch | popular design |
| Lurid | Gruesome |
| Machiavellian | Dishonest |
| Malaise | weakness |
| Malinger | pretend illness to avoid work |
| Mantra | Word |
| Maudlin | Emotional |
| Mercenary | Soldier for hire |
| Minimalist | someone who doesn't expect much out of something |