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Vocabulary
Abound a great in number
Affront - To insult intentionally, especially openly
Agog highly excited
Autodidacts a person who is self-taught
Baffle confuse
Bicker, squabble to engage in a bad-tempered argument, often over
trivial matter, quarrel
Bloviating pompous, bombastic, tedious, harangue
Bonanza - a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden
opportunity to make money)
Caty , wily cunning and cleaver
Cavil - find fault with, usually on trivial matters
Chafe annoyed , gall, irritate by rubbing or friction
chore a routine or minor duty or task
concoct devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive creativity
Corral to gather up
Cynicism - a cynical feeling of distrust
Defection - the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your
political party or a cause (often in favour of opposing beliefs or causes)
Despondent - without or almost without hope
Detractor - To reduce the value, importance, or quality of something
Dispensation distributed
Dissect analyze, understand
Dissimilitude dissimilarity or diversity
Divisive discord
Drought low rainfall
Earnest - Showing or expressing sincerity or seriousness
Ebb become less
Effect (v) - bring about, make, cause, produce, create
Endure Still in existence or Last
Entreaty - An earnest request or petition
Eyesore - something very ugly
Felicitous happy
Fleeting - Passing quickly; ephemeral
Found, deem - consider, think, believe, hold, account, judge,
Garble - make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
Ground-breaking - being or producing something like nothing done or
experienced or created before
Grumpy surly, bad tempered, sullen
Hapless - Luckless; unfortunate
Harbinger, herald forerunner, precursor
Hewing sticking to
hindsight the ability to understand after something has happened what
should have been done or what caused the event
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Inaptitude - Lack of talent or ability; the quality or state of being
inappropriate
Incendiary controversial
Incontestable - not able to be disputed.
Insouciance - carefreeness, light-heartedness, lightsomeness
Irony - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually
occurs
Labyrinthine related to, resemble, to exhibit similarity or likeness to
Languish - To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor
Latitude - freedom from normal restraints in conduct
Legion - amounting to a large indefinite number
Liberally open to new ideas, modern, not bound by traditional thinking
Litany - any long and tedious address or recital
Logorrhoea - Excessive use of words
Meteoric shooting star
Mince cut up into very small pieces
Misnomer - an incorrect or unsuitable name
Monument - a burial vault (usually for some famous person)
Moribund, thriving about to die
Necropolis - A burial site or cemetery
Nonchalance move back, regress
Notorious - well-known for some bad or unfavourable quality
Obeisance respect
Obnoxious annoying , offensive
Onerous - Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome
Palatable - acceptable to the taste or mind
pauper one who is extremely poor
perfunctory done routinely and with little interest or care
Persnickety - characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial
details
Philistine treat art derisively
Polemical - A person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or
refutation
Polyglot knowing or using several language
Polymath - person who is learned in many fields, consummate
Potentate absolute ruler
Preeminent - Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding
Premeditated - To form an intent to carry out (an action, such as a
crime); intend to carry out; planned
Procrastination delay, waste of time, dilatory
Promulgate - announce and make widely known
Prophetic - Foretelling events as if by divine inspiration, horoscope
Protean - versatile
Quirks eccentric, unconventional, distinct, unusual
Raconteur - One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit
Rambling roaming, wandering
Rapacious, predatory having or showing a strong or excessive desire o
acquire possess things, greedy
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Reclusive - isolation, withdrawn
Renegade disloyal person who betrays his religion or political party
Repast - A meal or the food eaten or provided at a meal.
Repel push back, force back
Revelry carousing, partying, fun, boisterous
Rile up angry, annoyed
Riveting fascinating, thriller
Rococo heavily embellished
roundabout indirect, evasive or vagueness
Sabotage destroy
salutary - beneficial, useful, valuable, helpful, profitable, good, practical,
good for you, advantageous, win-win
Sartorial - means of or relating to clothing
Saturnine - bitter or scornful, showing a brooding ill humour, gloomy
Scathing contemptuous, scorn
shirk - To avoid or neglect
Shunned avoid using, engaging
skewer - To ridicule or criticize harshly
Steer clear of - avoided Stimulant - An agent, especially a chemical agent such as caffeine, that
temporarily arouses or accelerates physiological or organic activity.
Surge increase; rush
Tabloid - Lurid or sensational
Tempestuousness - Moving rapidly or violently
Terse brief and to the point
Treacly overly sweet or sentimental
Trenchant - clearly or sharply defined to the mind
Trope figure of speech, image, figure
Truculence pugnacity, eager to fight
Trumpet proclaim, announce, advertise
Waning gradual decrease
Whit small part or amount