Monday, October 6, 2014

Vocab Fall List #5

1. shenanigans - secret or dishonest activity or manuevering.
2. ricochet - spring away from an impact
3. schism - division of a group into opposing factions
4. eschew - avoid and stay away from deliberately
5. plethora - extreme excess
6. ebullient - joyously unrestrained
7. garrulous - full of trivial conversation
8. harangue - address forcefully
9. interdependence - a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities
10. capricious - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason
11. loquacious - full of trivial conversation
12. ephemeral - lasting a very short time
13. inchoate - only partly in existence
14. juxtapose - different things placed side by side
15. perspicacious - acutely insightful and wise
16. codswallop - nonsensical talk or writing
17. mungo - low grade wool
18. sesquipedelian - using long words 
19. wonky - turned or twisted toward one side
20. diphthong - a compound vowel where it starts with one vowel and moves to the other

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