Vocab List 4

1. Apostate-deserter of one's belief or cause. Even though she still believed in animal rights, people still saw her as an apostate when she stop petitioning for animals.
2. Effusive- lacking reserve. He had an effusive nature and was alwyas animated about what he was doing.
3. Impasse- showing or feeling no emotion. Her face may have been one of impasse, but she was very devastated.
4. Euphoria- strong feeling of hapiness. The euphoria he felt was caused by the nerves in his brain recieving pleasuring stimulus.
5. Lugubrious-excessively mournful. The lugubrious women never dated again because she couldn't get over the death of her husband.
6. Bravado- boasting, swagerness. No one like the boy because he was arrogant and walked with an insulting amount of bravado.
7. Consensus- general agreement. The arguement continued and no one could come to a consensus.
8. Dichotomy- division into two parts. The dichotomic government had a house and a senate.
9. Constrict- to make narrow as by squeezing. The mouse struggled tp breath as the snake slowly constricted the mouse.
10. Gothic- style of literature marked by gloomy settings and mysterious events. This gothic tale takes place in translyvannia and deals with vampires.
11. Punctilio- particular, strict, excat. Always on time, he was quite the punctilio.
12. Metamorphosis- change in form or appearance. The catterpillar goes through a metamorhposis.
13. Raconteur- a person skilled in telling stories. The raconteur Travis entertains many with his stories.
14. Sine qua non- something essential. The boys charasmatic natue became a sine qua non for the girl.
15. Vendetta- prolonged and bitter feud, rivarly, contention. The families vendetta consumed their thoughts.
16. Non sequitur- an inference that does not follow the premise. The idiots argument was a basic and flawed non sequitur.
17. Mystique- aura of mystery. The strange manor had a scary mystique to it.
18. Quagmire- a bog or a situation from which extrication is difficult. talking to my ex-girlfriend was a quagmire and took me forever to get out of.
19. Parlous-dangerous. Fighting the dragon was parlous and fatal for Beowulf.