| WORD | MEANING |
|---|---|
| convalescent | (of a person) recovering from an illness or operation |
| forlorn | pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely |
| insouciant | showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent |
| groundswell | a buildup of opinion or feeling in a large section of the population |
| bluster | talk in a loud, aggressive, or indignant way with little effect |
| inchoate | just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary |
| exult | show or feel elation or jubilation esp as the result of a success |
| bleat | speak or complain in a weak, querulous, or foolish way |
| hearken | listen |
| finagle | obtain something by devious or dishonest means |
| cruft | badly designed, unnecessarily complicated, or unwanted code or software |
| corral | gather together and confine (a group of people or things) |
| throb | feel pain in a series of regular beats |
| recalcitrant | having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline |
| prescient | having or showing knowledge of events before they take place |
| newspeak | ambiguous euphemistic language used chiefly in political propaganda |
| apparatchik | an official in a large political organization |
| twaddle | trivial or foolish speech or writing; nonsense |
| imbroglio | an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation |
| serenade | a piece of music sung or played in the open air, typically by a man at night under the window of his lover |
| trenchant | vigorous or incisive in expression or style |
| kerfuffle | a commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views |
| denouement | the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved |
| flagrant | (of something considered wrong or immoral) shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring |
| perp walk | an act of walking into or out of a police station, courthouse, etc., that a person in police custody is made to perform for the benefit of the media |
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