Carnie - Week 6 Vocab

badinage

banter, light repartee

colloquy

a conference, formal conversation

dissemble

to disguise, pretend, feign

expatiate

to elaborate, dilate, discourse

hegemony

dominance, predominance, leadership

macerate

to soften, to emaciate

maelstrom

a whirpool

nascent

beginning to exist, incipient

ostensible

pretending, seeming, apparent

peripatetic

walking about, itinerant

phlegmatic

unemotional, impassive, undemonstrative

precipitous

extremely steep

profligate

extravagant, wasteful; dissolute, immoral, abandoned

putative

supposed, reputed

raillery

banter, good-natured teasing

to flog a dead horse

to continue to make an issue of something that is over

the die is cast

an unchangeable decision has been made

a cat’s paw

a person used as a tool or a dupe

coup de grace

the finishing stroke

poly-

many

post-

after

phobia

fear

-ing

action or process