Vocab #10

Psychosomatic

Adj; describing illness or symptoms brought by the mind (Greek) (comes from mind and body)

Inopportune

Adj; Inconvenient and ill-timed (moment…)

Mitigate

V; To lessen (you mitigate the of )

Quixotic

Adj; Unrealistic and dreamy (comes from Don Quixote guy with midlife crisis who becomes knight to go on quests)

Narcissistic

Adj; In love with one’s self extremely vain (noun is narcissism or narcissist)

Inherent

Adj; Naturally belonging to

Finagle

V; to weasel or worm your way out of something (yiddish) (finagle your way out of…)

Simpatico

Adj; On good terms with

Penultimate

Adj; Next to last.

Je ne sais quoi

N; that indefinable characteristic, x factor (I don’t know what literally in French) (that certain …)