Denouement
OUTCOME; UNRAVELING OF THE PLOT OF A PLAY OR WORK OF LITERATURE
Intelligentsia
an educated and intellectual elite
Palatable
(adj.) agreeable to the taste or one's sensibilities; suitable for consumption.
Repartee
A quick, witty reply
Termagant
a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman
Succinct
Brief, concise
Provincial
(adj.) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; (n.) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outl
Myopic
(adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
Insouciance
Casual lack of concern , indifference
Deleterious
Harmful
Cryptic
(adj.) puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
Insipid
lacking interest or flavor
Manifesto
A PUBLIC DECLARATION OF BELIEFS OR PRINCIPLES, USUALLY POLITICAL ONES
Proclivity
(n.) A natural or habitual inclination or tendency (especially of human character or behavior)
Suave
(adj.) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses
Sacrosanct
extremely sacred; beyond criticism
Perspicacity
(noun) mental sharpness; keen insight; shrewdness
Inveigh
(v.) to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval
Epicurean
a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Capitulate
(v.) to end resistance, give up, surrender, throw in the towel
Altercation
(n.) an angry argument
Dogmatic
authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated
Internecine
(adj.) mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed
Penurious
(adj.) - without money, great poverty
Stentorian
VERY LOUD, BOOMING (OF A VOICE)
Reticent
Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
Anaphora
A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences.
Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the m
FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION
An estimation of something as worthless
JOBBERNOWL
a stupid person, a blockhead
ETAOIN SHRDLU
A nonsense phrase; an absurd or unintelligible utterance
HORNSWOGGLE
To swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax