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100 Words to Make You Sound Smart

Baroque. AdjectiveExtravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation.Synonym: Over-decorated.Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, 1770 This well-known painting is a portrait of Master Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy iron dealer.. Although this masked vigilante [Spider-man] so

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100 Words to Make You Sound Smart

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    1. 100 Words to Make You Sound Smart Semester Two Vocabulary Week 27 Words

    2. Baroque Adjective Extravagant, complex, or bizarre, especially in ornamentation. Synonym: Over-decorated. Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough, 1770 – This well-known painting is a portrait of Master Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy iron dealer.

    3. Capricious Adjective Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable. Synonyms: Arbitrary, or flaky.

    4. Élan Noun Enthusiastic vigor and liveliness. Distinctive style or flair. Synonyms: Panache or zing.

    5. Fiasco

    6. Indelicate Adjective Marked by a lack of good taste or consideration for the feelings of others; tactless or improper. Synonyms: Crude or embarrassing.

    7. Mantra Noun A word or phrase that is expressed repeatedly, as in reaffirming an idea or motivating someone.

    8. Ogle Verb To stare at something, especially in a desirous or impertinent manner. Synonym: Gawk.

    9. Quid pro quo Noun Something given in return for something else or accepted as a reciprocal part of an exchange. Synonyms: Equivalent or tradeoff.

    10. Svengali Noun A person who manipulates or controls another for malicious purposes, especially by force of personality.

    11. Vile Adjective Loathsome, disgusting. Morally depraved or wicked. Synonym: foul. The boiled duck egg, seen left, is a delicacy in the Philippines which they call balut.

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