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Words of The Day Review
all 100 words & descriptions
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English
10th Grade
06/15/2012

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Avant Garde:
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A group of innovaters especially int he arts
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Accolade:
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any award, honor or high praise
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Acrimony:
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Sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, or disposition
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Angst:
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A feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish
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Anomaly:
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An odd peculiar,or strange condition, situation, quality, incongruity, or inconsistency
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Pariah:
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One who is rejected, despised, outcast
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Status Quo:
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The existing state of affairs
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Baroque:
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Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation
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Bonafide:
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Made or carried out in good faith, sincere, authentic, genuine
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Boondoggle:
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An unnecessary or wasteful activity often associated with craft or fraud
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Bourgeois:
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Relating to or typical of the middle class, especially in middle class espousing respectability
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Bravado:
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A show of bravery or defiance, often intended to make an impression or mislead someone
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Brogue:
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A strong dialectal accent in English, especially a strong Irish or Scottish accent in English
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Brusque:
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Abrupt and curt in manner or speech, discourteously blunt
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Byzantine:
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Highly complicated, intricate and involved
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Cacophony:
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Harsh or discorded, sound or dissonance, a jumbled mass of noise
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Camdrie:
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A spirit of friendly good fellowship
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Capricious:
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Governed or characterized by caprice or whim. Impulsive, unpredictable
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Carte Blanche:
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To be given full discretionary power
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Catch-22:
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A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently contradictory rules or conditions
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Caustic:
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Corrosive; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical reaction; marked by incisive sarcasm
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Charisma:
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Exceptional personal magnetism or charm
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Cloying:
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Causing distaste or disgust due to an excess of something originally pleasing
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Dichotomy:
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Division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups; a dichotomy between thought and action
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Deja Vu:
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An impression of having seen or done something before
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Dilettante:
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A person with a superficial interest in a field of knowledge; a dabbler
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Disheveled:
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Being in loose dissaray; marked by disorder, untidy
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Elan:
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Enthusiastic vigor and liveliness
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Ennui:
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Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from a lack of interest; boredom
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Globalization:
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Extending to other or all parts of the world; world wide integration and development
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Paradigm:
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A display in fired arrangement such as boys, boy's. boys', boy
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Marginalize:
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To place in a position of margin, importance, influence or power
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Compulsory:
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Required, mandatory; obligatory
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Aesthetic:
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Having a sense of the beautiful, characterized by a love of the beautiful
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Esoteric:
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Intended for or understood by only a restricted number of people
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Euphemism:
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A mild, indirect, or vague word used instead of one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive
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Androgynous:
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Having both male and female characteristics
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Quotidian:
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Usual or customary; everyday
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Intuitive:
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Perceived by, resulting from, or having intuition
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Caricature:
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A picture, description, etc, ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things
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Fait Accompli:
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An accomplished, presumably irreversible deed or fact
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Fastidious:
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Possessing or displaying meticulous attention to detail
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Faux Pas:
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A social blunder
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Fiasco:
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A complete failure
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Finagle:
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Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, to use crafty or deceitful methods; finagle out of work or school
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Freudian Slip:
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A slip that results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals
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Glib:
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Having a ready flow of words yet lacking the accuracy or understanding to use them, superficial, shallow, smooth or slippery, artfully persuasive in nature
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Gregarious:
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Fond of the company of others, sociable
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Harbinger:
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Anyone or anything that foreshadows a future event, omen; sign; (Frost is a harbinger for winter)
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Hedonist:
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A person whose life is dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure or self gratification
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Heresy:
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Opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system
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Idiosyncratic:
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Peculiar to a specific individual or group
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Idyllic:
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Excellent and delightful in all respects, suggestive of idyll, charmingly simple and serene
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Indelicate:
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Offensive to a sense of generally accepted propriety, modesty, or decency
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Infintismal:
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Indefinetley or exceedingly small,(an example would be the infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system)
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Insidious:
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Awaiting a chance to entrap, treacherous, harmful but enticing, seductive, having a gradual culminating effect, subdtle
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Junket:
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A trip or journey, especially one made by an official at public expense
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