Question | Answer |
apostate | one who forsakes his or her religion, party, or cause |
bravado | a display of false or assumed courage |
consensus | a collective or general agreement of opinion, feeling, or thinking |
constrict | to make smaller or narrower, draw together, squeeze; to stop or cause to falter |
dichotomy | a division into two contradictory or mutually exclusice parts; a branching or forking in an ancestral line |
effusive | highly demonstartive; unrestrained |
auphoria | a feeling of great happiness or well-being; often with no objective basis |
gothic | characterized by or emphasing a gloomy setting and grotesque or violent events; such a literary or artistic style; a type of medieval architecture |
impasse | a dead end; a position from which there is no escape; a problem to which there is no solution |
lugubrious | sad, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree |
metamorphosis | a complete transformation, as if by magic |
mystique | an aura or attitude of mystery or veneration surrounding something or someone |
non sequitur | an inference or conclusion that does not follow logically from the facts or premises |
parious | full of danger or risk, perilous |
punctilio | a minute detail of conduct or procedure; an instant of time |
quagmire | soft, soggy mud or slush; a difficult or entrapping situation |
quixotic | extravagantly or romantically idealistic; visionary without regard to practical considerations |
raconteur | a person who tells stories and anecdotes with great skill |
sine qua non | an essential or indispensable element or condition |
vendetta | a prolonged feud, often btwn two families, characterized by retaliatory acts of revenge; any act motivated by vengeance |