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Week Twenty Four Vocab Flashcards

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aberration

(noun) - break in pattern, a departure from what is right, proper, expected, normal

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Synonyms: deviation, anomaly, irregularity

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savoir-faire
(noun) - panache, style, handle things delicately, the ability to say and do the right thing in any situation; social competence

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Synonyms: tact, finesse, sophistication

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ad-hoc

(adj) - for this specific purpose; improvised

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Synonyms: makeshift

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bane

() - the source or cause of fatal injury, death, destruction; death or ruin itself

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Synonyms: spoiler, bête noire

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bathos
(noun) - the intrusion of commonplace or trite material into a context whose tone is lofty or elevated; grossly insincere or exaggerated sentimentality

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Synonyms: mawkishness, mush, schmaltz

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