Week 5_ vocabulary (children literature)

subterfuge: a deceptive device or stratagem.

kismet: destiny; fate.

turpitude: baseness; depravity.

ephemeral: lasting a very short time.

inveigle: to persuade or obtain by ingenuity or flattery.

portentous: foreboding; ominous.

facetious: playfully jocular; humorous.

deign: to condescend.

restive: resisting control; stubborn.

schadenfreude: a malicious satisfaction in the misfortunes of others.

pari passu: without partiality; equably; fairly.

mawkish: sickly or excessively sentimental.

panache: dash or flamboyance in manner or style.

adventitious: added extrinsically; not essentially inherent.

kvetch: to complain habitually.

pejorative: disparaging; belittling.

cognoscente: a person with special knowledge.

alacrity: a cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptness.

bravura: a showy display.

vivify: to endue with life; to enliven.

sonorous: yielding sound; impressive in sound.

anathema: a curse; a person or thing cursed, or intensely disliked.

laconic: using or marked by the use of a minimum of words.

deleterious: harmful.

platitude: a banal, trite, or stale thought or remark.

quash: to annul; also, to crush; to subdue.

meretricious: tawdry.

bumptious: crudely, presumptuously, or noisily self-assertive.

laudable: praiseworthy; commendable.

inamorata: a woman whom one is in love with.

penchant: a strong liking.