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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Anachronism | something out of place or time |
| Gloam | twilight/dusk |
| Liminal | in-between state |
| Zeitgeist | spirit of the times, mood of cultural moment |
| Quixotic | unrealistic, impractical, overly romantic |
| Salacious | lustful, lascivious |
| Interloper | trespasser, intruder, imposter |
| Prodigal | wasteful, excessive, inefficient |
| Phantasmagoria | rapidly, haphazardly shifting sequence of images, as in a dream |
| Cloying | sickeningly sweet, overly sentimental |
| Prescient | having foreknowledge, prophetic |
| Surreptitious | secretive, covert |
| Feckless | ineffective, incompetent |
| Schadenfreund | fighting please in others' misfortunes |
| Chimerical | highly unrealistic, fanciful |
| Polemical | purposely controversial in order to raise debate |
| Demagoguery | appeals to prejudice and base emotions to encourage others to take a political action |
| Cryptic | hard to read or follow, mysterious, puzzling |
| Serendipity | fortunate occurrences by accidend |
| Snarky | fault-finding, testy, irritable |
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