Vocab # 2

accoutrements- noun personal clothing, accessories; the equipment, excluding weapons and clothing, of a soldier

ex) The accoutrements of Elle Woods, yes from the movie Legally Blonde, made everyone think she was a rich princess.

apogee - noun apoapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth; a final climactic stage

ex) Many of the students at Harvard thought that Elle would soon see her apogee!

apropos - adj. of an appropriate or pertinent nature; adv. by the way; at an opportune time
ex) Elle did not have an apropos appearance at law school because she was just worried about getting Warner back and not her education.
bicker - noun a quarrel about petty points; verb argue over petty things
ex) Her bickering skills needed a little brushing up since she was use to getting what she wanted.
coalesce - verb fuse or cause to grow together; mix together different elements
ex) While sad with the blues of her hopeless love life, Elle tried to coalesce the characteristics of her new friend from the salon, Paulette, with those of her UPS lover.
contretemps - noun an awkward clash, unfortunate occurance
ex) Her efforts failed when Paulette had a contretemps with the UPS guy and they hit heads:/
convolution - noun the action of coiling or twisting or winding together; a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain; the shape of something rotating rapidly
ex) Elle life suddenly became a convolution when she got stuck in the middle of a case that involved a dear friend.
cull - noun the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality; verb remove something that has been rejected;look for and gather
ex) She had to find the strength and motivation to work hard after she was deemed a cull by Warner
disparate - adj. including markedly dissimilar elements;fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
ex) Elle found that her disparate approach to law gave her an advantage over the others.
dogmatic - adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
ex) Elle's client was seen as having a dogmatic life because she "killed" her husband and Elle was the only one who believed she was innocent.
licentious - adj. lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained
ex) Her strong dedication to her morals and style attracted her teacher who surprisingly had a licentious slip and "hit up" Elle!
mete - verb to distribute equally out
ex) She could not and would not mete out her affection for a grade.
noxious - adj. injurious to physical or mental health
ex) The wicked Vivian had witnessed this slip and she believed Elle was the culprit of the noxious actions.
polemic - adj. of or involving dispute or controversy; noun a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma); a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
ex) This created a polemic because Vivian thought Elle was sleeping with the professor just to get attention and she disapproved of Elle's lack of morals.
populous - adj. densely populated
ex) The next morning at the little but populous court room, stuff went down.
probity - noun complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles
ex) Elle was determined to uphold the probity of herself and her client after the previous fiasco.
repartee - noun adroitness and cleverness in reply
ex) Elle Woods had become an expert in repartee and she exampled this skill as she hounded the witness on the stand.
supervene - verb something that happens after an event to change the future of what is to come next
ex)The case looked hopeless until Elle's beauty knowledge supervened.
truncate - adj. terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; verb make shorter as if by cutting off; approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; replace a corner by a plane
ex) Elle truncated the responses of the witness and practically shouted to the world that the witness could not have had a perm done and been in the shower when the murder was committed and therefore killed her father!
unimpeachable - adj. beyond doubt or reproach; completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach; free of guilt; not subject to blame
ex) In the end when Elle cleared her name with Vivian and proved her client innocent as well as proving herself by staying true to herself, she earned the unimpeachable respect of her colleagues and found the guy of her dreams and she lived happily,legally ever after!!!:)