Vocabulary 5

Shenanigan: A playful or mischievous act; a prank. "The young children were being very mischievous"

Ricochet: to bounce or skip with or as if with a glancing rebound "when playing racquetball, the ball ricochets off the wall."

Schism: a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief. "The government schism was the worst the country has ever seen."

Eschew: deliberately avoid using; abstain from.

"he appealed to the crowd to eschew violence"

Plethora: a large or excessive amount of (something).

"a plethora of committees and subcommittees"

Ebullient: cheerful and full of energy.

"she sounded ebullient and happy"

Garrulous: excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.

"Polonius is portrayed as a foolish, garrulous old man"

Harangue: lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner. "the kind of guy who harangued total strangers about PCB levels in white."

Interdependence: a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities

Capricious: given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior. "a capricious and often brutal administration"

Loquacious: tending to talk a great deal; talkative

Ephemeral: lasting for a very short time. "fashions are ephemeral"

Inchoate: just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.

"a still inchoate democracy"

Juxtapose: place or deal with close together for contrasting effect.

"black-and-white photos of slums were starkly juxtaposed with images."

Perspicacious: having a ready insight into and understanding of things. "it offers quite a few facts to the perspicacious reporter"

Codswallop: Brit nonsense

Mungo: cloth made from recycled woven or felted material.

Sesquipedalian: characterized by long words; long-winded. "the sesquipedalian prose of scientific journals"

Wonky: crooked; off-center; askew.

"you have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth"

Diphthong: a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another