Week 1

• sycophant (n): one who is eager to please for personal gain; or more informally, a suck-up or brown-noser
• lugubrious (adj.): extremely sad, gloomy, or mournful
• pernicious (adj): causing great harm & destruction, wicked
• insouciant (adj): unconcerned or unworried, often to the point of arrogance
• ubiquitous (adj): present everywhere at once, omnipresent
• non sequitur (n): a statement that is totally unrelated to the statement that it follows
• restive (adj): uneasy, agitated; having little patience; unwilling to be controlled
• diatribe (n): A bitter verbal or written attack on someone or something
• jingoistic (adj): extremely fervent and patriotic, to the point of even expressing hostility toward other countries.
• implacable (adj): not easily calmed or pacified; impossible to change or move