Vocabulary #5

shenanigans - noun secret or dishonest activity or maneuvering

Financial shenanigans were happening under the table between the business man and a potential buyer.
ricochet - noun a glancing rebound; verb spring back; spring away from an impact

The ball ricocheted off the cement wall.

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 schisms of Christianity has led to all the different religious branches of today.  
eschew - verb avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of

Jane eschewed from her ex-boyfriend at the dance. 
plethora - noun extreme excess

There was a plethora of food provided by the parents.
ebullient - adj. joyously unrestrained

The teacher's ebullient attitude spread throughout her classroom.
garrulous - adj. full of trivial conversation

The garrulous student distracted the students around him.
harangue - noun a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; verb deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

The student made a harangue in front of the whole student body that surprised everybody.
interdependence - noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)

There must be an interdependence between a business firm in order to be organized.  

capricious - adj. determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; changeable

The lottery is often a capricious result.
loquacious - adj. full of trivial conversation

The loquacious group of girls never stopped in silence.
ephemeral - adj. lasting a very short time; noun anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

Laura's ephemeral stay at her grandparent's house upset them dearly.
inchoate - adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

The inchoate government of the Wampagos Indians led to their decimation.
juxtapose - verb place side by side

Costco juxtapose two popular items together, toilet paper and water, to make more profit. 
perspicacious - adj. acutely insightful and wise; mentally acute or penetratingly discerning

The elderly are often more perspicacious than teenagers.
codswallop - noun nonsensical talk or writing

The old man's codswallop bored and confused the children. 
mungo - noun cloth made from recycled woven or felted material.

The one of a kind dress was made of mungo. 
sesquipedelian - noun characterized by long words

The complex short story had sesquipedalian which made it difficult for readers to understand.  
wonky - adj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; turned or twisted toward one side

Temptation often makes an individual wonky.
dipthong - noun a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another

Loud is an example of a dipthong.