Expanding Vocab

free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant

• 1. an expression of approval
• 2. a special aknowldgement such as an award

Bitter, sharp animostiy, especially in speech

A feeling of anxiety or apprehension

Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation

An unnecessary or wasteful activity.

Relating to or typical of the middle class, especially in espoising respectibility and conventional middle-class values

Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt.

Highly complicated; intricate and involved

Jarring, discordant sound

Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable

Causing distaste or disgust because of an excess of something orginally pleasant

The division into two constrasting things or parts

• 1. A person with a superficial interest in an art or field of knowledge; a dabbler
• 2. Superficial; amateurish

• 1. Enthusicastic vigor and liveliness
• 2. Distsinctive style of hair

Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom

Intended for or understood by only a restricted number of people

A social blunder

• 1. A mild, indirect, or vauge word used instead of one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive
• 2. The use of such words

Seeking and enjoyinig the company of others; sociable

• 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

A person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses

Something that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner

Peculiar to a specific individual or group

Marked by lack of good tast or consideration for the feelings of others; tactless or improper

Art or other objects appealing to popular taste, as by being gaudy or overly sentimental

a repetitive recital or list

Characterized by vivid description or explicit details that are meant to provoke or shock

Characterized by cunning and deceit

A general sense of unease

Excessively sentimental

a name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object

a statement that does not follow logically from what precedes it

characterized by newly acquired wealth, especially when it is flaunted

characterized by showiness meant to impress others; pretentious in display

to exclude from a group

a remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all

Discontented or irritable

done routinely and with little interest or care

a person who is smugly indifferent or antagonistic to art and culture

displaying or characterized by unsually early development or maturity, especially in intelligence

conformity to prevailing customs and usages

being the best or most typical example of its kind

language that is intended to persuade, especially when viewed as pretentious, insincere, or without intellectual merit

lively and exceptionally intelligent; animated and brilliant

• 1. rigorously self-disciplined or self-restrained
• 2. having a simple or severe manner or appearance

seemingly indifferent to pleasure and pain; showing little or no emotion

a person who manipulates or controls another for malicious purposes, especially by force of personality

a person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a submissive way

a long, angry speech, usually of a critical nature

an agreement, as between lovers, to meet at a certain time and place

a private conversation between two people

being or seeming to be everywhere a the same time

not given, rewarded, or flet in return

• 1. impossible to maintain or defend, as against criticism
• 2. impossible to tolerate or endure

experienced or felt by empathy with or imaginary participation in the life of another person

to move or cause to move gently and smoothly through the air

• 1. the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god
• 2. the ideal example; epitome; quintessence