Thanks to Pam Hussen these peculiar words caught my eye. This is what they mean.
Nouns
Pedagogue: a teacher, schoolteacher or a person who is pedantic, dogmatic, and formal
Ennui: a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom
Guile: insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception
Paragon: a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence (verb: to compare, parallel, to be a match for, rival)
Vicissitude: a chance or variation occurring in the course of something
Acumen: keen insidet, shrewdness
Fusillade: a general discharge or outpouring of anything
Platitude: a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
Festoon: a fabric suspended, draped, a bound at intervals to form graceful loops or scall open folds
Temerity: reckless boldness, rashness
Adjectives
Impecunious: having little or no money; penniless; poor
Salient: prominent or conspicuous OR projecting or pointing outward
Vapid: lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat OR without liveliness or spirit; dull or tedious
Kafkaesque: of pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of Franz Kafka OR marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity
Munificent: extremely liberal in giving; very generous
Crass: without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity, gross, obtuse, stupid
Trenchant: clearly or sharply defined
Mellifluous: sweetly or smoothly flowing: sweet-sounding
Obdurate: stubbornly resistant to moral influence
Obsequious: obedient
Sedulous: persistently or carefully maintained
Deft: dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever
Profligate: utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute
Pithy: brief, forceful and meaningful in expression; full or vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible
Turgid: swollen, distended, tumid OR inflated overblown or pompous; bombastic
Tantamount: equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification
Ersatz: serving as a substitute; synthetic; artificial
Fecund: very productive or creative intellectually
Nefarious: extremely wicked or villainous: iniquitous
Miscreant: depraved, villainous, or base
Torpid: inactive or sluggish
Sanguine: cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident
Verbs
Usurp: to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc) by force or without legal right
Abscond: to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoud capture and legal prosecution
Ameliorate: to make or become better, more bearable or more satisfactory; improve
Enervate: to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken
Expatiate: to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion
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