Vocabulary #3

1.apostate-a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
-The female apostate is to be kept in confinement until she recant or death

2.effusive-expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner.

-Her smile became wider and bowing thanks very effusive!

3.impasse-a situation in which no progress is possible, esp. because of disagreement; a deadlock.
-Impasse in the conference on disarmament.

4.euphoria-A feeling of great happiness or well-being.

-Just one man poured water into this wine of general euphoria.

5.lugubrious-looking or sounding sad and dismal.
-Lugubrious howl just outside -- within ten feet of them.

6.bravado-Defiant or swaggering behavior.
-Bravado in the face of fear and uncertainty?

7.consensus-general agreement.

-In such cases, reaching consensus was not an issue.

8.dichotomy-a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.

-Dichotomy of view is an urgent component of nca's immediate horizon

9.constrict-make narrower, esp. by encircling pressure.

-Constructed from timber.

10.gothic-relating to,l or resembling the Goths their civilization, or their language.
-Goth kids who like darkness will figure out some way to improve the storminess without raining on everyone else's parade.

11.punctilio-a fine or petty point of conduct or procedure.

-They will not part with the least punctilio in their opinions and practices.

12.metamorphosis- A transformation, as by magic or sorcery.
-Metamorphosis into a salmon fisher?

13.raconteur-a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.
-He is a born raconteur, lover of life, communicator.

14.sine qua non-something absolutely indispensable or essential.
-Sine qua non condition for the existence of the two identities.

15.quixotic-exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.

-Quixotic attempts at self-definition.

16.vendetta-a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer's family.

-I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

17.non sequitur-an inference that does not follow from the premises.
-But this is little more than a logical non sequitur.

18.mystique-an air or attitude of mystery and reverence developing around something or someone.
-Mystique of directors comes from cinema.

19.quagmire-a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot.

-Quagmire of a pitch both teams found it hard to get any rhythm

20.parlous-full of danger or uncertainty; precarious.

-The lebanon situation looks parlous despite an apparent ceasefire.