AP LANG

lothario

rake; seducer; lover

maverick

one who acts independently

nemesis

agent of retribution; just punishment

philanderer

one who makes love insincerely; one

who engages in passing love affairs

philippic

bitter verbal attack

procrustean

designed to secure conformity; drastic

protean

changeable; taking on different forms

Pyrrhic victory

a victory that is exceptionally costly

quixotic

romantically idealistic; impractical

saturnine

sluggish; gloomy; grave

solecism

substandard use of words;violation of good manners

spoonerism

an unintentional exchange of sounds

sybarite

one who is fond of luxury and soft living

tawdry

cheap; gaudy; showy

acidulous

somewhat acid or sour

avaricious

excessively greedy

baleful

deadly; sinister

bellicose

warlike; of a quarrelsome nature

bilious

bad-tempered; bitter

bumptious

arrogant; disagreeable conceited

captious

critical; quick to find fault; quibbling

churlish

rude; surly

complaisant

willing to please; tending to consent to others’ wishes

contrite

crushed in spirit by a feeling of guilt

convivial

festive; sociable

craven

cowardly

debonair

courteous, gracious and having a sophisticated charm; suave; urbane

dyspeptic

grouchy; gloomy; a person who suffers from indigestion

lachrymose

sad; mournful; inclined to shed many tears

jingoist

one who boasts about his patriotism and favors

a warlike foreign policy