Vocab: Spring 3

Apostate: a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
In an omish community, if you were to apostate and leave you would be shunned for ever.

Effusive: expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained heartfelt manner.
After the man saved his life, he was very effusive in repsonse.

Impasse: a situation in which no progress is possible, esp. because of a dissagrement; a deadlock.
United states terrorist policy is impasse towards reaching their demands.

Euphoria: a feeling of great happiness or well-being.
When a runner wins a marathon, they get a great feeling of euphoria as they cross that finish line.

Lugubrious: looking or sounding sad and dismal.
He looked pretty lugubrious after the accident.

Bravado: a disposition toward showy defiance or false expressions of courage.
A man shouldn't show a bravado but actually show is courage.

Consensus: general agreement.
The people came to a great consensus on who to pick as a represenative.

Dichotomy: a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.
The kids had a dichotomy between the boys and girls.

Constrict: make narrower, esp. by encircling pressure.
The snake constricted the tiny rat.

Gothic: of or relating to the goths or their extinct East Germanic language,. which provides the earliest manuscript of any Germanic language.
Germany's gothic culture existed in 4th-6th centuries AD.

Punctilio: a fine or petty point of conduct or procedure.
Some countrys show other country representatives with punctilio attitudes.

Metamorphosis: the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.
Metamorphosis is usally just for insect or amphibians but can almost be connected to humans because some people need to mature and stop immature.

Raconteur: a person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way.
Its fun listening to the Raconteur story's that are filled with excitement.

Sine Qua Non: an essential element or condition.
If he wanted to go to the party with his parents he would have to agree to their sine qua non.

Quixotic: exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical
A vast and perhaps quixotic project.

Vendetta: a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murdere or the muderes family.
Serial murderers family's probably feel all the victims family's vendetta towards them.

Non Sequitur: a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.
In murder cases jury's do non sequitur's all the time when chosing if they are guilty or not.

Mystique: a fascinating aura of mystery, awe, and power surrounding someone or something.
He was covered in a mystique aura.

Quagmire: a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot.
The swamp has a few quagmires in it.

Parlous: full of danger or uncertainty; precarious.
James Bond was a parlous fellow.