Vocabulary list 5

shenanigans-silly or high spirited behavior; secret or dishonest behavior or maneuvering.

-Can you stop with your shenanigans in class please?
ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impact

-The ball ricocheted off the wall and hit the ground.
schism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences

-The problem created a schism within the group. 
eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

-It would be smart to eschew from the subject.
plethora - noun extreme excess

- There is a plethora of food for dinner.
ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained

-The runner is ebulliently fast during her race.
garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation

-The speaker is garrulous in her ways of speech.
harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

-The teacher harangued his students for their behavior. 
interdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)

-There is interdependence within the community. 
capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable

-She has a capricious attitude about making decisions. 
loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation

- He has loquacious intelligence.
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

- A glowing moth is ephemeral in that it only lives a week because it doesn't have a mouth to eat from. 
inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

-The book is inchoately finished. 
juxtapose - verb place side by side

-the desk and the chair are juxtaposed. 

perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise;mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

-Sarah has perspicious intelligence. 
codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing

-Sleep deprived I wrote a codswallop and it was awful.

mungo-noun cloth made from recycled woven or felted fabric

-The mungo was a beautiful piece of patchwork. 
sesquipedelian-adj.(of a word) polysyllabic; long; characterized by long words; long-winded

-The essay contained sesquipedelian vocabulary throught it. 
wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side

-The wonky dog was very scared when he saw himself I'm the mirror.
diphthong-noun a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another; a compound vowel character; a ligature

- She was a diphthong in her diction.