Tuesday, September 3, 2013

VOCAB #3

1.) Apostate: a person who forsakes his/her religion 

2.) Effusive: undugly demonstative; lacking reserve

3.) Impasse: without emotion

4.) Euphoria: a  state of intense happiness and self-confidence

5.) Lugubrious: mournful, dismal; or gloomy

6.) Bravado: swaggering display of courage 

7.) Consensus: majority of opinion 

8.) Dichotomy: division in two parts

9.) Constrict: to draw or press in

10.) Gothic:  dark and deep

11.) Punctilio: a fine part/point

12.) Metamerphosis: a profound change in form from one stage to the next in life history as an 
organism 

13.)Raconteur: a person skilled in telling stories

14.) Sine Qua Non:  an indespesable condition, factor or element

15.) Quixotic: resembeling Don Quixotic

16.) Vendetta: any prolonged and bitter feud or rivarly 

17.) Non Sequitur:  a statement containing an illogical conclusion

18.) Mystique:  an aura or mysteic power or feeling

19.) Quagmire: a area of boggy ground whose surface yields under the tred; a bog

20.) Parlous: to a large extent 

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