| Term | Definition |
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| culinary | (adj) describes anything relating to cooking or the kitchen |
| gourmet | (adj./n.) an expert of fine food and drink |
| gourmand | (n.) a person with discriminating taste in food and wine; person who likes food too much (glutton) |
| epicurean/epicure | (adj./n.) person with discriminating taste in food and wine, overally refined |
| gluttony | (n.) excessive eating or drinking, a person who overdoes something |
| voracious | (adj.) ravenous, excessively hungry; excessively greedy; insatiably hungry for things other than food |
| savory | (adj) appetizing to taste or smell; (n.) piquant/sharply pungent or salty appetizer |
| omnivorous | (adj.) eating both meat and vegetable foods; taking in/devouring anything available |
| gastronomy/gastronomical | (n./adj.) art or science of good eating; regional style of cooking |
| palatable | (adj) acceptable to taste or sufficiently flavorable to be eaten; pleasing to the palate |
| potable | (adj.) fit to be drunk (as in you can drink it :] ) |
| succulent | (adj.) figuratively or literally 'juicy' |
| propitious | (adj.) presenting favorable circumstances or positive outcomes |
| auspicious | (adj.) marked by success or producing favorable circumstances |
| boon | (n.) timely benefit, stroke of good luck |
| adverse | (adj.) turned against, opposing; unfavorable to one's interests or well being; antagonistic |
| detrimental/detriment | (adj./n.) causing damage, harm or loss |
| travesty | (n.) exaggerated imitation of something; any grotesque parody of something or disastrous mockery |
| debacle | (n.) a sudden, disastrous downfall; defeat |
| fiasco | (n.) a complete failure |
| rout | (n.) overwhelming defeat or disorderly retreat after battle |
| enormity | (n.) monstrous evil or outrage; immensity |
| recalcitrant/recalcitrance | (adj./n.) stubbornly resists to authority; someone who stubbornly resists authority |
| obdurate | hardened against feeling; hardhearted |
| fracticious | (adj.) peevish, cranky; unwillingness to respect authority |
| refractory/refractoriness | (adj./n.) stubbornly resistant to authority |
| refraction | bending of a sound or light wave |
| intractable | (adj.) difficult to manage or govern (applies to children or those behaving like kids) |
| obstreperous | (adj.) aggressively and noisily defiant |
| intransigent/intransigency | (adj./ n.) not to come to an agreement; stubbornly uncompromising |
| incorrigible | (adj.) unable to be reformed or corrected (refers to kids) |
| dogged | (adj.) stubbornly persevering, often against all odds |
| dogmatic | (adj.) describes a person who stubbornly asserts an unproven opinion |
| etiquette | originally described a card giving instructions for proper behavior at court |
| decorum | (n.) behavior appropriate to a prevailing social code; pleasing set of manners and awareness of what is considered proper within any one social group (sort of superficial) |
| finesse | (n.) denotes refinement and subtlety in a given situation; suggests situations less superficial than those regarding decorum |
| seemly | (adj.) describes behavior that is appropriate, fitting the accepted rules of conduct |
| protocol | (n.) codes of expected conduct in any given social situation |
| gaffe | a blunder, an awkward social moment; foe pa; embarrassing error or mistake |
| propriety | (n.) observation of existing social norms |
| boor | (n.) (emphasizes social cluelessness) a person with no social sense, one with rude or non-existent manners |
| churl | (n.) a bad disposition, surliness |
| nuance | (n.) refers to subtle or slight variation and a sensitivity to those variations (important in social scenes) |
| savoir fare | phrase meaning "to know what to do", refers to using the correct fork or having grace and tact to put others at ease |
| mettle | courage |
| resolute | (adj.) bold and determined, unwavering in purpose |
| undaunted | (adj.) not discouraged nor disheartened; willing to forge ahead, whatever the odds |
| intrepid | (adj.) resolute, fearlessly brave |
| audacity | (adj.) fearlessly often recklessly, daring (without prudence or convention) |
| restive | (adj.) to resist control or be impatient under restriction; a bold resistance to control |
| fortitude | (n.) strength of mind to endure pain or difficulty with courage |
| brazen | (adj.) able to undergo adversity with bold self-assurance; this type of person is insolent (rude), even shameless, in their audacity |
| temerity | (n.) extreme of boldness; person who exhibits a foolish disregard for danger |
| iconoclastic | (n.) person who seeks to overthrow popular ideas or institutions |
| cheeky | (adj.) saucy, impudently bold |
| jejune | (adj.) dull, bland, or uninteresting and is usuallt used to describe speech or writing; childish or immature |
| niggardly | (adj.) frugal, tightfisted in giving or spending |
| forte | (n.) something at which a person excels; in reference to music: load and forceful |
| hoary | (adj.) gray-or white-haired, old |
| hirsute | full of hair |
| gadfly | (n.) a person who acts as a provocative stimulus or catalyst to action; irritating critic |
| gadabout | (n.) person who roams about in search of amusement or social activity |
| goad | someone who prods or urges to action |
| piebald | (adj.) spotted or patchy, epecially black and white |
| pates | top of the head |
| toothsome | (adj.) delicious or luscious; sexually attractive and exciting |
| caryatid | (n.) architectural term for a structural column sculpted in the form of a draped female figure |
| adventitious | (adj) not inherent, or coming from an external source (accidental) |
| pulchritude | (n.) great beauty |
| sedulous | (adj.) describes hard work, consistently applied to the task at hand |
| herculean | (adj.) really difficult or really powerful |
| stamina | (n.) endurance, the physical or mental strength to keep going |
| meticulous | (adj.) emphasizes painstaking care with details |
| punctilious | (adj.) suggests attention to every minute detail or point (more so than meticulous) |
| fastidious | (adj.) overly exacting, unnecessarily squemish |
| assiduous | (asj,) diligence, persistence |
| tenacious | (adj.) describes a person who holds on, whether it be an object, goal or point of view |
| alacrity | (n.) speedy and cheerful willingness to do something |
| frenetic | (adj.) overly eager, wildly excited, short, frenzied |
| dotage | (n.) deterioration of mental faculties that comes with aging, senility |
| venerable | (adj.) commanding respect because of old age or dignity |
| puerile | (adj.) childish, juvenile |
| qizened | (adj.) dried up, withered (fruit or a person :] ) |
| pubescent | (adj.) having reached puberty or the stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes capable of sexual reproduction |
| dowager | (n.) a widow who holds property or a title that comes from her deceased husband; an old woman of high social standing |
| senescence | (n.) old age |
| callow | (adj.) immature or lacking adult experience |
| superannuated | (adj.) ineffective or outmoded because of advanced age |
| ingenue | (n.) a naive or innocent young women |
| ardor | burning passion or fiery devotion |
| zealot | (n.) a person who feels extreme passion or devotion, sometimes to the exclusion of almost anything else |
| amorous | (adj.) love or sexual attraction for another person |
| concupiscence | (n.) feelings of lust towards people |
| fervent | (adj.) burning enthusiasm |
| fanatical | (adj.) possessed with enthusiasm to the point of being irrational |
| manic | (adj.) passion to the point of madness |
| evangelical | (adj.) describes a person who has an ardent or crusading enthusiasm for something |
| vehement | (adj.) characterized by (or carrying) an intense emotion or conviction (people are not vehement, but they do things with vehemence) |
| effusive | (adj.) unrestrained in emotional expression; gushy |
| hell-bent | (adj.) recklessly determined to do or achieve something |
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