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Gambol

To jump or skip about playfully

Ambivalent

Having opposite and conflicting feelings about someone or something

Eclat

Dazzling or conspicuous success or acclaim; great brilliance

Abeyance

A state of being temporarily inactive, suspended, or set aside

Imbue

To soak or stain thoroughly; to fill the mind

Carte blanche

Full freedom or authority to act at one's own discretion

Fastidious

Overly demanding or hard to please, excessively careful in regard to details, easily disgusted

Cataclysm

A sudden, violent, or devastating upheaval

Beleaguer

To set upon from all sides, to surround with an army, to trouble, harass

Debauch

To corrupt morally, seduce, to indulge in dissipation, and act or occasion of dissipation or vice

Lampoon

A malicious that tired, to satirize, ridicule

Savoir faire

The ability to say and do the right thing in any situation, social competence

Queasy

Nauseated or an easy, causing nausea or uneasiness, troubled

Inchoate

Just beginning, not fully shape or formed

Picaresque

Involving or characteristics of clever rogues or adventurers

Opt

To make a choice or decision

Refractory

Stubborn, hard or difficult to manage, not responsive to treatment or cure

Philistine

Lacking in, hostile to, or smugly and different to cultural and artistic values or refinements, such a person

Nemesis

An agent or force inflicting vengeance or punishment, retribution itself, an unbeatable

Malleable

Capable of being formed into different shapes, capable of being altered, adapted, or influenced