| Term | Definition |
|---|
| voyeur | A person who derives sexual gratification from observing the naked bodies or sexual acts of others |
| capricious | variable, flighty, mercurial |
| cognitive | pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning |
| parochial | biased, bigoted, insular, limited, narrow, petty, prejudiced, provincial, restricted |
| vicariously | In place of another; performed, exercised, received, or suffered |
| auspicious | promising success; propitious |
| boorish | crass, crude, gawky, |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| rancid | unpleasant, stale smell or taste |
| rebuke | stern disapproval |
| tenacity | determination, diligence |
| fastidious | hard to please , excessively particular |
| factitious | not spontaneous or natural |
| superfluous | excessive; being more than is sufficient or required |
| licentious | sexually unrestrained; lascivious |
| fecundity | fruitfulness or fertility, as of the earth. |
| convoluted | complicated |
| Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
| campy | To act in a deliberately artificial, vulgar, or banal way. |
| impertinent. | INSOLENT, RUDE |
| propensity | a natural inclination or tendency |
| beguile | to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead |
| embargo | ban, restriction, interdiction, postscription |
| connotation | connotation of "home" is "a place of warmth |
| ornamental | serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose |
| hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
| pontificate | to speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner |
| secede, secessionist | abdicate, apostatize, break with, disaffiliate, leave, quit, resign, retire, retract, retreat, |
| spooning | resting comfortably front to back like two matching spoons . |
| antithetic | directly opposed or contrasted; opposite. |
| conflate | to fuse into one entity |
| coalesce | to grow together or into one body |
| autonomous | existing and functioning as an independent |
| automysophobia | a fear of being dirty, unclean, or smelling bad |
| conundrum | a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words |
| pervasive | to become spread throughout all parts of |
| omnipotent | having very great or unlimited authority or power. |
| capitulate | to agree or surrender according to arranged or proposed terms |
| foreboding | a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil |
| auspicious | auguring favorable circumstances and good luck |
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