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CP English 4
30 day vocab Day 15
17
English
Not Applicable
10/10/2005

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peccadillo
Definition
a slight sin
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penury
Definition
abject poverty
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megalomania
Definition
grandoise delusions of one's own importantce
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imbroglio
Definition
a complicated and embarrassing situation
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braggadoclo
Definition
empty boasting
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panacea
Definition
a cure for all ills
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fiasco
Definition
a miserable and ridiculous failure
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elite
Definition
the best or most capable part of any group
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parvenu
Definition
one who flaunts, somewhat vulgarly, newly attained wealth (used contemptuously)
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malinger
Definition
to feign sickness to shirk work or duty
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jingoism
Definition
favoring a warlike foreign policy
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intelligentsia
Definition
the intelligent and educated classes
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chicanery
Definition
mean,petty trickery
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banal
Definition
commonplace; without sparkle or originality
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rationalize
Definition
to find a worthy motive for
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anomaly
Definition
a deviation from type; and a irregularity
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idiosyncrasy
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a charactoristic peculiarity
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