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CaldwellJ
100 words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accolade | a mark of acknowledgement |
| acrimony | harsh or biting sharpness, esp. in words or manner |
| angst | a feeling of anxiety, apprehension or fear |
| anomaly | a deviation from the norm |
| antidote | a remedy |
| avant-garde | experimental in design |
| baroque | a style marked by bold ornamentation and complex forms |
| bona fide | genuine |
| boondoggle | a product of simple manual skill |
| bourgeois | middle class |
| bravado | swaggering display of courage |
| brogue | a strong, regional accent |
| brusque | curt, surly |
| byzantine | complex |
| cacophony | discordance in sound |
| camaraderie | friendship |
| capricious | subject to whim |
| carte blanche | complete authority |
| catch-22 | no-win situation |
| caustic | capable of burning, corroding, or destroying skin |
| charisma | a personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over a large number of people |
| cloying | annoying due to excess |
| deja vu | the illusion of having previously experienced something that is actually occuring for the first time |
| dichotomy | division into two parts |
| dilettiante | a person who takes part in an activity merely for amusement |
| disheveled | hanging loosely or in disorder |
| elan | dash |
| ennui | a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from lack of interest |
| epitome | a person or thing that possesses to a high degree the feature of a whole class |
| equanimity | mental or emotional stability or composure, esp. under stress |
| equivocate | fjkghfjg |
| esoteric | design for or understood by a certain few |
| euphemism | a more agreeable or polite term |
| fait accompli | something accomplished irreversibly |
| fastidious | hard to please |
| faux pas | blunder |
| finagle | to obtain by deception |
| freudian slip | a slip of the tongue that conveys what the speaker is really thinking |
| glib | marked by ease or informality |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| gregarious | fond of the company of others |
| harbinger | something that forshadows a future event |
| hedonist | a person who lives only for pleasure |
| heresy | opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox |
| idiosyncratic | of or pertaining to a characterstic that is peculiar to an individual |
| idyllic | perfect or extremely pleasant |
| indelicate | offensive |
| infinitesmal | exceedingly small |
| insidious | stealthily treacherous |
| junket | a pleasure excursion |
| kitsch | made to appeal to the masses |
| litany | a ceremonial form of prayer |
| lurid | gruesome or horrible |
| machiavellian | the use of craft or deceit to maintain authority |
| malaise | a condition of general bodily weakness |
| malinger | to pretend illness to shirk one's duty |
| mantra | a word or formula chanted or sung as an incontation |
| maudlin | overly sentimental |
| misnomer | a misapplied name |
| narcassist | being unordinarly fascinated with yourself |
| nirvana | freedom from the endless cycle of reincarnation |
| non sequitur | a conclusion that does not follow from the premises |
| nouveau riche | the newly rich |
| oblivion | the state of being completely forgotten |
| ogle | to eye flirtatiously |
| ostentatious | showy to impress others |
| ostracize | to exclude by general consent |
| panacea | a cure-all |
| paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory but is in fact true |
| peevish | cross or fretful |
| perfunctory | performed merely as routine |
| philistine | a person who is indifferent to other cultures |
| precocious | mature or advanced for one's age |
| propriety | conformity to an established set of rules |
| quid pro quo | one thing in return for another |
| quintessential | the perfect embodiment |
| red herring | something intended to divert attention from the real problem |
| revel | to take pleasure in |
| rhetoric | the use of exaggeration |
| scintillating | animated |
| spartan | sparce |
| stigma | a mark of disgrace |
| stoic | not showing emotion |
| suave | smooth and polite |
| svengali | a person who completely dominates another through mind power |
| sycophant | a suck up |
| teetotaler | someone who abstains from drinking alcohol |
| tete-a-tete | a private conversation between two people |
| tirade | a long speech |
| tryst | an appointment to meet at a specified place or time, esp. between lovers |
| ubiguitous | seeming to be present everywhere at once |
| unrequited | not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| untenable | that cannot be held, defended, or tamed |
| vicarious | shared in or experienced by imagined participation |
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