--The pastor's daughter was a apostate to her father's religion.
Effusive: unduly demonstrative, lacking reserve/pouring out, overflowing
--When meeting boy foreign exchange students, I notice American girls become effusive with flirtatious behavior.
Impasse: a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock
-- Death is impasse.
Euphoria: a state of happiness and self-confidence/a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania
--Lidia though being married would make set her in an euphoria state. But her fiance's death brought an end to her fantasy.
Lugubrious: mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, orunrelieved manner
--Lidia was lugubrious after the death of her fiance.
Bravado: a pretentious, swaggering display of courage
--Conner Patzman is full of Bravado.
Consensus: majority of opinion/general agreement or concord; harmony
--the consensus was that we would order pizza instead of going out.
Constrict: to draw or press in; to cause to contract or shrink; compress/to slow or stop the natural course of development of
--The snake constricted around the child's neck rendering him helpless.
Dichotomy: division in two parts, kinds, etc./division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups
--The dichotomy within the party itself is what caused the loss of the election to the rival party.
Gothic: noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, originating in France in the middle ofthe 12th century and existing in the western half of Europe through the middle of the 16thcentury, characterized by the use of the pointed arch and the ribbed vault, by the use offine woodwork and stonework, by a progressive lightening of structure, and by the use ofsuch features as flying buttresses, ornamental gables, crockets, and foils/pertaining to the Middle Ages; medieval
--The architecture student visited France to study Gothic cathedrals, so he may bring that style back in his works.
Punctilio: a fine point, particular, or detail, as of conduct, ceremony, or procedure/strictness or exactness in the observance of formalities or amenities
--The club insisted that every little punctilio had to be followed during initiation, or else the ceremony had to start over.
Metamorphosis: a complete change of form, structure, or substance, as transformation by magic or witchcraft/any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances,etc.
--The boy seemed to undergo a complete metamorphosis into a respectful young adult after going through the Scared Straight program.
--The children's grandfather was a true raconteur, he had an interesting story for just about any situation.
Sine qua non: an indispensable condition, element, or factor; something essential
--Kasie is sine qua non for parties; you just can't have one without her.
Quixotic: extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical or impracticable/impulsive or rashly unpredictable
--The man figured that any day might be his last, so he lived his life quixotically and didn't worry about consequences.
Vendetta: a private feud in which the members of the family of a murdered person seek toavenge the murder by killing the slayer or one of the slayer's relatives, especially suchvengeance as once practiced in Corsica and parts of Italy/a prolonged and bitter feud, rivalry, contention, or the like
--Jessica swore a vendetta on the person that cut in front of her in line at Six Flags.
Non Sequitur: an inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises
--Her argument was solid until she reached the end, where we found an obvious non sequitur.
Mystique: a framework of doctrines, ideas, beliefs, or the like, constructed around aperson or object, endowing the person or object with enhanced value or profoundmeaning/an aura of mystery or mystical power surrounding a particular occupation orpursuit
--I am eternally occupied with the mystique behind surfing and the surrounding culture.
Quagmire: an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog/a situation of which extrication is very difficult
--The man seemed to be stuck forever in the quagmire that is credit card debt.
Parlous: perilous, dangerous
--Some times the most parlous journeys have the biggest pay off. Other wise they woulddn't be worth making.
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