- aplomb - coolness
- tepid - warm; Feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
- restive - Impatient especially under restriction/delay; tense
- savant - pundit; admitted to membership in a scholarly field
- coterie - exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- precocious - advanced; intelligent
- voracious - Excessively greedy and grasping; Devouring
- pedantic - academic; narrow focus on trivial aspects
- waggish - humorous; witty or joking
- remonstrate - argue in protest; censure severely
- surfeit - state of being full; excess; glut
- verbatim - word for word
- kibbutz - collective farm; children reared collectively
- doting - adoring;extravagantly loving
- lecherous - Given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity
- lore - traditional knowledge
- cumbersome - difficult to handle or use b/c of size;clumsy
- amalgam - A combination or blend of diverse things
- schmalz - excessive sentimentality in art or music
- schmalzy - Effusively or insincerely emotional
- nuance - A subtle difference in meaning, opinion or attitude
- intermittent - sporadic;Stopping and starting at irregular intervals
- idiosyncrasy - A behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
- sonority - Having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
- plaintive - mournful; sorrow
- stench - a stinking odor
- pedant - scholastic; bookworm
- parse - analyze; dissect a sentence
- affliction - A state of great suffering and distress due to adversity
- mercurially - erratic
- importunate - Expressing earnest entreaty
- conspicuous - Obvious to the eye or mind; blatant
- hoary - Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
- iota - A tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- detract - take away a part from
- gall - A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will; rancor
- schnook - a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despised
- reticent - Temperamentally disinclined to talk
- staggering - So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm
- obstreperous - Noisily and stubbornly defiant
- non sequitur - A reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
- ablutions - The ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels
- dour - Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
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