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

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

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