A

Ad nauseum - to the point of sickness

Amoral - seemingly having no moral standards

Antipathy - feeling totally opposed to something

Audacity - great daring

Austere - stand-offish

B

Badinage - chat

Banal (banality) - dull, boring

Belligerent - quick to get into a fight

Berate - to tell someone off for a long time

Bohemian - out of the ordinary

C

Charisma - having an attractive personality

Coerce - persuade by force

Coquette - flirt

Credulous - believing

Camaraderie - a spirit of friendship esp. in a team

D

Deranged - totally mad

Deferential - exceptionally polite and submissive

Derisision (derisive) - scorn

Diffident - shy

Duplicity (duplicitous) - deliberate deceit

E

Ebullient - exceedingly cheerful

Effrontery - cheek

Elucidate - clarify

Enigma - a mystery

Euphemism - to soften a blow

F

Facade - pretend facial expression

Fastidious - really fussy

Flamboyant - over the top

Flout - blatently disregard

Fortuitous - just at the right time

G

Gauche - socially awkward

Genial - pleasant

Gesticulate - to use your hands while talking

Gratuitous - unnecessary with a negative tone

Gregarious - sociable

H

hackneyed - a cliché

harangue - to go on and on

heinous - exceptionally evil

Herculean - very big

hyperbole - deliberate exaggeration

I

Idiosyncracy - a strange personal habit

Immaterial - irrelevant

Impropriety - something that is improper

Incorrigible - impossible to correct

Invective - abusive language

J

Jaded - exhausted

Jingoism - extreme patriotism

Jocular - cheerful

Judicious - wise, sensible

Juncure - a point in time

K

Kaput - broken

Kismet - fate

Kitsch - cheap, showy

Kosher - food permitted by Judaism

Kudos - glory, prestige

L

Laborious - a boring task requiring a lot of effort

Languid - totally lacking in energy

Licentious - undisciplined behaviour

Litotes - deliberate understatement

Lugubrious - gloomy

M

Malleable - material that is easily bent into shapes

Maverick - someone who does their own thing

Miscreant - a bad person

Misogyny - hatred of women

Mollify - to appease somebody