Vocab List #5 11H

An obsessively fashion-conscious man

• fop

• deference

• quandary

• panegyric

A curse

• imprecation

• non sequitur

• vignette

• ebullient

Something that does not logically follow

• non sequitur

• nebulous

• pedantic

• elegy

Cheerfully confident; optimistic

• sangine

• rakish

• deference

• impair

To remove offensive passages from a novel, play, etc.

• bowdlerize

• fop

• elegy

• panegyric

To weaken; to cause to become worse

• impair

• sanguine

• imprecation

• ebullient

An expression of praise; a formal public eulogy

• panegyric

• rakish

• ebullient

• vignette

A puzzling situation; a dilemma

• quandary

• pedantic

• bowdlerize

• elegy

Extremely enthusiastic; bubbling (with enthusiasm)

• ebullient

• elegy

• fop

• non sequitur

courteous yielding to the opinion or wishes of another

• deference

• impair

• sanguine

• vignette