vocabulary test

still remember once i was at holland village's kfc with desmond and caleb doing the vocabulary exercise book. so many years ago. and caleb will always get almost everything right. anyway here's a list of words i learnt this holiday.

espionage, enchilada, soliloquy, faux pas, ventriloquist, benefaction, confrere, harbinger, presage, passe, quintessence, gung-ho, tirade, coup de grâce, quid pro quo, obtuse, depravity, obnoxious, hilt, diabolic, impasse, recalcitrant, sobriquet, volition, quiddity, grassroots, furor, cul-de-sac, introspective, scour, vainglory, emaciation, querulous, masochist, acolyte, contraband, tardiness, retrospect, firmament, nonchalance, appraising, insidious, chasm, travesty, understatement, cretin, vertigo, predicament, surreptitious, epitome, careening, narcissist, sub rosa, candor, delirious, albeit, vestiges, crestfallen, woebegone, farce, pronto, precarious, digerati, apposite, veneer, ingenue, kamikaze, transient, pervasive, frolicking, elude, inexorable, nonplussed, forlorn, extradite, idiosyncrasy, paralegal, allegory, vociferous, deprecate, punitive, ad verbatim, sire, acquiesced, reverie, jollification, solace, ineluctable, colloquial, platonic, rancour, cynosure, ectoplasmic, hedonist, conceit