Fall Vocabulary List

Here are the words I'm planning to use, and I'm open to suggestion.  If a particular word confuses, tickles or irritates you, or if you have a pet word that you'd like to see on the list, email it to: dpreston.learning@gmail.com.

adumbrate

apotheosis

ascetic

bauble

beguile

burgeon

complement

contumacious

curmudgeon

didactic

disingenuous

exculpate

faux pas

fulminate

fustian

hauteur

inhibit

jeremiad

opportunist

unconscionable

accoutrements

apogee

apropos

bicker

coalesce

contretemps

convolution

cull

disparate

dogmatic

licentious

mete

noxious

polemic

populous

probity

repartee

supervene

truncate

unimpeachable

accolade

acerbity

attrition

bromide

chauvinist

chronic

expound

factionalism

immaculate

imprecation

ineluctable

mercurial

palliate

protocol

resplendent

stigmatize

sub rosa

vainglory

vestige

volition

apposite

augur

bilk

charisma

debilitate

execrable

impinge

labyrinth

narcissism

niggardly

pastiche

precarious

rapport

utilitarian

vacuous

vagary

viable

xenophobia

zany

zealot

apostate

bravado

consensus

constrict

dichotomy

effusive

euphoria

gothic

impasse

lugubrious

metamorphosis

mystique

non sequitur

parlous

punctilio

quagmire

quixotic

raconteur

sine qua non

vendetta

acumen

adjudicate

anachronism

apocryphal

disparity

dissimulate

empirical

flamboyant

fulsome

immolate

imperceptible

lackey

liaison

monolithic

mot juste

nihilism

patrician

propitiate

sic

sublimate

beatitude

bete noire

bode

dank

ecumenical

fervid

fetid

gargantuan

heyday

incubus

infrastructure

inveigle

kudos

lagniappe

prolix

protege

prototype

sycophant

tautology

truckle

aberration

ad hoc

bane

bathos

cantankerous

casuistry

de facto

depredation

empathy

harbinger

hedonism

lackluster

malcontent

mellifluous

nepotism

pander

peccadillo

piece de resistance

remand

syndrome

abeyance

ambivalent

beleaguer

carte blanche

cataclysm

debauch

eclat

fastidious

gambol

imbue

inchoate

lampoon

malleable

nemesis

opt

philistine

picaresque

queasy

refractory

savoir-faire

abortive

bruit

contumelious

dictum

ensconce

iconoclastic

in medias res

internecine

maladroit

maudlin

modulate

portentous

prescience

quid pro quo

salubrious

saturnalian

touchstone

traumatic

vitiate

waggish

aficionado

browbeat

commensurate

diaphanous

emolument

foray

genre

homily

immure

insouciant

matrix

obsequies

panache

persona

philippic

prurient

sacrosanct

systemic

tendentious

vicissitude

affinity

bilious

cognate

corollary

cul-de-sac

derring-do

divination

elixir

folderol

gamut

hoi polloi

ineffable

lucubration

mnemonic

obloquy

parameter

pundit

risible

symptomatic

volte-face