Vocab List # 8

1. abeyance- a state of temporary disuse or suspension

2. ambivalent- having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas of something or someone

3. beleaguer- set with difficulties

4. carte blanche- complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks

5. cataclysm- a large-scale and violent event in the natural world

6. debauch- destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt

7. eclat- enthusiastic approval

8. fastidious- very attentive and concerned about accuracy and detial

9. gambol- run or jump about playfully

10. imbue- inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality

11. inchoate- just begun and not so fully formed or developed

12. lampoon- publicly criticized (someone or something) by using ridicule or sarcasm

13. malleable- easily influenced; pliable

14. nemesis- the inescapable or implacable agent of someones or somethings downfall

15. opt- make a choice of a range of possibilities

16. philistine- a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them

17. picaresque- of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of  a rough and dishonest but appealing hero

18. queasy- nauseated; feeling sick

19. refractory- stubborn or unmanageable

20.  savior-fair - the ability to act and speak appropriately in social situations