Vocabulary: Fall List 5 ❗️

shenanigans - noun secret or dishonest activity or maneuvering

-None of my teachers put up with shenanigans.  
ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; 

verb spring back; spring away from an impact

-After shooting the bee-bee gun, the bee-bee ricocheted off of the fence. 
schism - noun division of a group into opposing factions; the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences

-The Catholic Church is a schism of Christianity. 
eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

-Sometimes it's better to eschew from people who bring drama to their lives. 
plethora - noun extreme excess

-In the War Zone, there's a plethora of students that there's hardly anywhere to sit. 
ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained

-He had a very ebullient personality. 
garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation

-Garrulous is practically the same thing as loquacious. 
harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

-His parents harangued him into going to that school. 
interdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)

-The countries agreed on being allies and interdependence. 
capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable

-His mind was easily capricious. 
loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation

-The two professors had a very loquacious conversation. 
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; nounanything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

-Their relationship was ephemeral. 
inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

-His feelings are inchoate. 
juxtapose - verb place side by side

-All of the cans in the store were juxtaposed. 
perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise;mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

-Since the teacher was perspicacious all the students looked up to him. 
codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing

-When people are tired or sleepy they talk codswallop. 
mungo - noun cloth made from recycled woven or felted material.

-Tom's are a brand that are built from mungo. 
sesquipedelian - adj characterized by long words; long-winded:

-Shakespeare's writings seem kind of sesquipedelian at times. 
wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side

-The bolt on the bike was loose, resulting in wonky wheels. 
diphthong - noun a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another

-The piece of literature contained various words that included dipthongs.