Final Vocabulary List (Part 2)

-Shenanigans: (n) mischief, trickery

-Ricochet: (v) to move in this way, as a projectile

-Schism: (n) division or disunion; the parties so formed

-Eschew: (v) to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid

-Plethora: (n) over abundance; excess

-Ebullient: (adj) overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited

-Garrulous: (adj) wordy, diffuse; excessively talkative in a rambling manner

-Harangue: (n) intense verbal attack

-Interdependence: (n) the quality or condition of being interdependence, or mutually reliant upon each other

-Capricious: (adj) erratic, unpredictable of change

-Loquacious: (adj) talkative, chattering; to talk much

-Ephemeral: (adj) lasting a short time; short-lived

-Inchoate: (adj) not yet completed; not yet developed

-Juxtapose: (v) to place close together for comparison and contrast

-Perspicacious: (adj) having keen mental perception and understanding

-Codswallop: (n) nonsense, rubbish

-Mungo: (n) a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste

-Sesquipedalian: (adj) containing many syllables, given to using long words

-Wonky: (adj) unsteady, shaky, unreliable, boring

-Diphthong: (n) a vowel sound, occupying a single syllable, during the articulation of which the tongue moves from one position to another, causing a continual change in vowel quality 

-Obsequious: (adj) obed-ient; dutiful; fawning

-Beatitude: (n) exalted happiness

-Bete Noire: (n) a person or thing that one particularly dislikes or dreads

-Bode: (v) to be an omen of

-Dank: (adj) unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly

-Ecumenical: (adj) general; universal: promoting Christian unity throughout the world

-Fervid: (adj) heated in spirit, enthusiasm; intensely hot, burning

- Fetid: (adj) having an offensive odor; stinking

- Gargantuan: (adj) gigantic, enormous

- Heyday: (n) the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.; prime

-Incubus: (n) a nightmare

-Infrastructure: (n) the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organisation

-Inveigle:(v) to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk; to acquire by beguiling talk or methods

- Kudos: (n) honor, glory, acclaim

- Lagniappe: (n) tip, bonus, gratuity 

- Prolix: (adj) extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy

- Protege: (n) a person under the care of someone interested in his or her career or welfare.

- Prototype: (n) the original or model on which something is based on for formed; someone who serves to illustrate the typical qualities of something 

- Sycophant: (n) a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite

- Tautology: (n) needless repetition of an idea

- Truckle: (v) to submit or yield obsequiously or tamely

- Accolade- (n) any award, honor, or laudatory notice

- Acerbity- (n) sourness; harshness or severity as of temper or expression

- Attrition- (n) a reduction or decrease in number, size, it strength 

- Bromide- (n) a person who is platitudinous and boring; a trite saying

- Chauvinist- (n) a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic; a person who believe one gender is superior to another

- Chronic- (adj) constant; habitual; inveterate; having long had a disease 

- Expound- (v) to explain; to interpret

-Factionalism- (adj) of a faction or factions; self-interested

-Immaculate- (adj) free from spot or stain; free from moral blemish; pure; free from fault

- Imprecation- (n) the act of imprecations; cursing

- Ineluctable- (adj) incapable of being evaded; inescapable 

- Mercurial- (adj) changeable; animated; lively

- Palliate- (v) to relieve or lessen without curing; alleviate; to try and conceal the gravity if excuses, apologies 

- Protocol- (n) a supplementary international agreement; the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality 

- Resplendent- (adj) shining brilliantly; gleaming; splendid

- Stigmatize- (v) to set some mark of disgrace; to mark with a stigma or brand.

- Sub Rosa- (n) confidentially; secretly; privately

- Vainglory- (n) excessive elation or pride over one's own achievements, abilities; boastful vanity

- Vestige- (n) a mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that us no longer present or in existence

- Volition- (n) the act of willing, or choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing; a choice of decision made by the will

-Apostate: (n) person who abandons his religion, cause, party 

- Effusive: (adj) extravagantly demonstrative of emotion; gushing; overflowing

- Impasse: (n) a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock

- Euphoria: (n) a state of intense happiness and self-confidence

- Lugubrious: (adj) mournful, dismal, or gloomy 

- Bravado: (n) a pretentious, swaggering display of courage

- Consensus: (n) majority of opinion.

- Dichotomy: (n) a division into two parts, kinda; contrast between two different things

- Constrict: (v) to draw or press in; compress

- Gothic: (adj) pertaining to a style of architecture originating in France in middle of 12th century 

- Punctilio: (n) a fine point as of conduct; strictness or exactness in the observation of formalities or amenities

- Metamorphosis: (n) a complete change of form, structure, or appearance as transformation 

- Raconteur: (n) a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly

- Sine qua non: (n) an indispensable condition, element, or factor; something essential 

- Quixotic: (adj) impulsive and often rashly unpredictable; extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; impractical 

- Vendetta: (n) a fued in which members of the family of a murdered  person seek to avenge the murder by killing the slayer's relatives

- Non Sequitur: (n) a statement that has an illogical conclusion; an inference or conclusion that does not follow the premises 

- Mystique: (n) framework of doctrines, ideas, beliefs constructed around a person or object; an aura of mystery surrounding a particular pursuit 

- Quagmire: (n) an area of boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; soft or flabby

- Parlous: (adj) dangerous, perilous