VOCAB #3

Definitions: 
1) Apostate: one who commits renunciation of a religious faith
2) Effusive: marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm
3) Impasse: a predicament affording no obvious escape
4) Euphoria: a feeling of well-being or elation
5) Lugubrious: exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
6) Bravado: blustering swaggering conduct
7) Consensus: general agreement
8) Dichotomy: a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities or the process or practice of making such a division 
9) Constrict: to make narrow or draw together
10) Gothic: of, relating to, or resembling the Goths, their civilization, or their language
11) Punctilio: a minute detail of conduct in a ceremony or in observance of a code
12) Metamorphosis: a typically marked and more or less abrupt developmental change in the form or structure of an animal 
13) Raconteur: a person who excels in telling anecdotes
14) Sine qua non: something absolutely indispensable or essential
15) Quixotic: foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals especially in romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action
16) Vendetta: an often prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful, or hostile acts or exchange of such acts 
17) Non sequitur: a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said
18) Mystique: an air or attitude of mystery and reverence developing around something or someone
19) Quagmire: a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position
20) Parlous: dangerously shrewd or cunning

Sentences: 
1) An apostate from Catholicism, John became an outsider among his very religious family.  
2) The basketball star received effusive thanks for making an appearance at the fundraiser. 
3) He reached an impasse when faced with the decision whether to continue working his low-wage job or spend big amounts of money to receive high education. 
4) The euphoria following the victory during the championship game had people running from their seats to celebrate. 
5) The lugubrious atmosphere of the city's Haunted House was almost comical in its excess in dark decorations.   
6) The bravado in the young athletes voice made him come across as vain, instead of humble.
7) The jury, after a long 2 hour meeting following the difficult case, reached a consensus. 
8) Jake made a comment to the professor about the obvious dichotomy between the students who the professor liked, who received good grades, and the ones he didn't. 
9) The broken seat belt constricted Ann to her seat after the crash, though it was unsafe to say in the car. 
10) I tend to stay away from the Gothic style homes while  house-hunting, for feelings that they are to morbid. 
11) He overlooked the punctilio in the ceremony of who was to give their speech first.
12) Her metamorphosis from awkward preteen to a confident young adult shocked her relatives, who hadn't visited her during those tender years.
13) My grandfather could be considered a true  raconteur; a quality that ended up in teaching me many lessons through his long anecdotes.
14) A love of children is a sine qua non of my job, since I am constantly caring for them and interacting with them. 
15) The young girl had quixotic dreams when it came to the future of her and her boyfriend of three months. 
16) Even years after, her mother still held a vendetta against her daughter's first boyfriend for breaking her daughter's heart. 
17) While fighting with my parents about how I need to keep up my grades, they added in a non sequitur about how my room had been looking dirty lately as well. 
18) The only new student we had all year had a certain mystique at first, though a week later we realized there was nothing very special about her. 
19) Because her divorced parents let her choose who she wanted to stay with, my friend was put in a serious quagmire trying to decide how to not hurt either parent's feelings. 
20) The parlous state of the country I hoped to visit as a eye-opening experience after graduating high school has me reevaluating if that is the best place to travel to.