Brooklyn Vocabulary #2

condition of weariness; lack of energy

• Lassitude

• Macabre

• Banal

• Recalcitrant

done, made, or acquired by stealth

• Beguiling

• Gallant

• Eulogized

• Surreptitiously

capable of winning favor; kissing up to someone

• Poignancy

• Derisive

• Ingratiating

• Beguiling

showy in dress or behavior

• Keened

• Gallant

• Enigma

• Eulogized

being an omen; unnatural or abnormal

• Pathological

• Somber

• Prodigious

• Macabre

to lead by deception or lying

• Timorous

• Eulogizing

• Serene

• Beguiling

lacking originality, freshness or novelty

• Ingratiating

• Derisive

• Banal

• Plutocrats

to enroll into service by being forced into it

• Leonine

• Conscripted

• Ingratiating

• Décolleté

an obscure speech or writing; can’t be understood

• Subterfuge

• Somber

• Enigma

• Leonine

disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death

• Somber

• Recalcitrant

• Lassitude

• Macabre