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Insouciant
free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant
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Accolade (ák'e-làd)
- 1. an expression of approval
- 2. a special aknowldgement such as an award
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Acrimony (ák're-mò'nè)
Bitter, sharp animostiy, especially in speech
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Angst (ängkst)
A feeling of anxiety or apprehension
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Baroque (be-ròk')
Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation
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Boondoggle (boon' dô'gel)
An unnecessary or wasteful activity.
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Bourgeois (boor-zhwä')
Relating to or typical of the middle class, especially in espoising respectibility and conventional middle-class values
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Brusque (brúsk)
Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt.
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Byzantine (bíz;en-tèn')
Highly complicated; intricate and involved
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Cacophony (ke-kóf'e-nè)
Jarring, discordant sound
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Capricious (ke-prísh'es)
Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable
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Cloying (kloi)
Causing distaste or disgust because of an excess of something orginally pleasant
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Dichotomy (dì-kót'e-mè)
The division into two constrasting things or parts
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Dilettante (díl'í-tànt')
- 1. A person with a superficial interest in an art or field of knowledge; a dabbler
- 2. Superficial; amateurish
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Élan (à-län')
- 1. Enthusicastic vigor and liveliness
- 2. Distsinctive style of hair
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Ennui (ón-wè')
Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom
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Esoteric (és;e-tér'ík)
Intended for or understood by only a restricted number of people
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Faux pas (fò pä')
A social blunder
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Euphemism (yoo'fe-míz'em)
- 1. A mild, indirect, or vauge word used instead of one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive
- 2. The use of such words
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Gregarious (grí-gâr'è-es)
Seeking and enjoyinig the company of others; sociable
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Glib (glíb)
- 1. Performed with a natural offhand ease
- 2. marked by ease and fluency of speech or writing that often suggests or stems from insincerity, superficialty, or deceitfulness
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Hedonist (hèd'n-íst)
A person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses
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Harbinger (här'bín-jer)
Something that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner
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Idiosyncratic (íd'è-ò-sìng-krát'ík)
Peculiar to a specific individual or group
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Indelicate (ín-dél'í-kít)
Marked by lack of good tast or consideration for the feelings of others; tactless or improper
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Kitsch (kích)
Art or other objects appealing to popular taste, as by being gaudy or overly sentimental
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Litany (lít'n-è)
a repetitive recital or list
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Lurid (loor'íd)
Characterized by vivid description or explicit details that are meant to provoke or shock
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Machiavellian (mák'è-e-vél'è-en)
Characterized by cunning and deceit
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Malaise (má-làz')
A general sense of unease
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Maudlin (môd'lín)
Excessively sentimental
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Misnomer (mís-nò'mer)
a name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object
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non sequitur (nón sék'wí-ter)
a statement that does not follow logically from what precedes it
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nouveau riche (noo'vò rèsh'
characterized by newly acquired wealth, especially when it is flaunted
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Ostentatious (ós'tén-tà'shes)
characterized by showiness meant to impress others; pretentious in display
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Ostracize (ós'tre-sìz')
to exclude from a group
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Panacea (pán'e-sè'e)
a remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all
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Peevish (pè'vísh)
Discontented or irritable
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Perfunctory (per-fúngk'tk-rè)
done routinely and with little interest or care
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Philistine (fíl'í-stèn')
a person who is smugly indifferent or antagonistic to art and culture
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Precocious (prí-kò'shes)
displaying or characterized by unsually early development or maturity, especially in intelligence
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Propriety (pre-orì'í-tè)
conformity to prevailing customs and usages
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Quintessential (kwín'te-sén'shel)
being the best or most typical example of its kind
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Rhetoric (rét'er-ík)
language that is intended to persuade, especially when viewed as pretentious, insincere, or without intellectual merit
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Scintillating (sín'tl-à'tíng)
lively and exceptionally intelligent; animated and brilliant
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Spartan (spär'tn)
- 1. rigorously self-disciplined or self-restrained
- 2. having a simple or severe manner or appearance
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Stoic (stò'ík)
seemingly indifferent to pleasure and pain; showing little or no emotion
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Svengali (své-gä'lè)
a person who manipulates or controls another for malicious purposes, especially by force of personality
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Sycophant (sík'e-fent)
a person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a submissive way
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Tirade (tì'ràd')
a long, angry speech, usually of a critical nature
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Tryst (tríst)
an agreement, as between lovers, to meet at a certain time and place
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Tête-à-tête (tàt'e-tàt')
a private conversation between two people
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Ubiquitous (yoo-bík'wí-tes)
being or seeming to be everywhere a the same time
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Unrequited (ún'rí-kwì'tíd)
not given, rewarded, or flet in return
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Untenable (ún-tén'e'bel)
- 1. impossible to maintain or defend, as against criticism
- 2. impossible to tolerate or endure
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Vicarious (vì-kâr'è-es)
experienced or felt by empathy with or imaginary participation in the life of another person
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Waft (wäft)
to move or cause to move gently and smoothly through the air
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Apotheosis (uh-poth-ee-oh-sis)
- 1. the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god
- 2. the ideal example; epitome; quintessence
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