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I'm Kelsey. I'm planning on going into an architectural or materials engineering career. I have two incredibly funny puppies and I love watching movies.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Vocab #3

Apostate- someone who abandons faith and rejects it

Effusive- unrestrained in emotional expression

Impasse- a road, passage, or situation having no exit

Euphoria- a feeling of intense excitement

Lugubrious- looking or sounding sad

Bravado- a bold manner or a show of boldness

Consensus- general agreement 

Dichotomy- a division or contract between two things (or choices)

Constrict- make narrower

Gothic- language or type of style
 
Punctilio- a fine point of conduct; strictness or exactness

Metamorphosis- a change of form

Raconteur- a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way

Sine Qua Non- an essential condition

Quixotic- unrealistic and impractical•

Vendetta- bitter quarrel

Non Sequitur- a conclusion or statement that does not follow previous statement

Mystique- a fascinating aura of mystery

Quagmire- a soft boggy area of land; a situation from which extrication is very difficult

Parlous- full of danger or uncertainty

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