Abeyance: temporary inactivity
Ambivalent: simultaneous and contradictory feelings
Beleaguer: trouble, harass
Carte blanche: full discretionary power
Cataclysm: a momentous and violent event marked by overwhelming upheaval and demolition; event that brings great changes
Debauch: to lead away from virtue or excellence
Éclat: ostentatious display; publicity
Fastidious: having high and often capricious standards; difficult to please
Gambol: to skip about in play
Imbue: to permeate or influence as if by dyeing
Inchoate: being only partly in existence or operation
Lampoon: a harsh satire usually directed against an individual
Malleable: capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers
Nemesis: a formidable and usually victorious rival or opponent
Opt: to make a choice especially to decide in favor of something
Philistine: person guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
Picaresque: of, relating to, or being a type of fiction dealing with the episodic adventures of a usually roguish protagonist
Queasy: causing nausea
Refractory: resisting control or authority
Savior-faire: the ability to say or do the right or graceful thing
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