VOCABULARY #7

shenanigans: (noun) mischief; prank; trickery; deceive.

- Due to their shenanigans, Bob and his friends were always getting into trouble.

ricochet: (noun) rebound; the act of bouncing off of a surface. 

- When I shot a gun, the bullet ricocheted off a wall and hit the neighbor's cat. 

schism: (noun) division or disunion into mutually opposed parties.

- An unfortunate schism had occurred between the two basketball teams. 

eschew: (verb) to abstain or keep away from; shun or avoid.

- It's best to eschew from those children, they are said to be a bad influence. 

plethora: (noun) excess; overabundance.

- Kim was filled with a plethora of excitement after winning an academic award.

ebullient: (adjective) overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; high spirited.

- The winter of 2000 had been an ebullient time in Ken's life.

garrulous: (adjective) excessively talkative; wordy and diffuse.

- The garrulous girl slowly began to annoy me as she babbled on about her life.

harangue: (noun) a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack.

- I began a harangue on my brother once I found out what his grades were.

interdependence: (noun) the quality or condition of being reliant on each other.

- The couple's relationship had reached an extreme level of interdependence.

capricious: (adjective) subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden notion or unpredictable change.
- A capricious attitude will keep you from making friends. 

loquacious: (adjective) talking or tending to much or to freely; talkative; chattering.
- I'm quite loquacious when I'm around people I feel comfortable with. 

ephemeral: (adjective) lasting a very short time; short-lived.
- Don't spend your money on ephemeral items.

inchoate: (adjective) not organized; lacking order.
- The boy's room was an inchoate disaster.

juxtapose: (verb) to place together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- The two images were juxtaposed on the overhead.

perspicacious: (adjective) having keen judgement or understanding.
- She was perspicacious enough to acknowledge that missing school was not a wise idea.

codswallop: (noun) nonsense; rubbish.
- The girl's ideas were a load of codswallop.

mungo: (noun) a low-grade wool from felted rags or waste.
- The homeless man's attire was quite mungo.

sesquipedalian: (ajective) given to using long words.
- The President delivered a sesquipedalian speech regarding health care.

wonky: (adjective) unreliable; not trustworthy.
- The boy is not well liked by his peers due to his wonky behavior.   

dipthong: (noun) a complex speech sound or glide that begins with one vowel and gradually changes to another vowel within the same syllable.
- The -oi in boil is a dipthong; it makes a vowel sound by sliding from one vowel sound to the next.