My Favorite Words #2

Continuing from this post:

    * capricious
    * whimsical
    * inessential
    * crux
    * pensive
    * poignant
    * qualm
    * hackneyed
    * imperceptible
    * sang-froid
    * farcical
    * zeitgeist
    * idyllic
    * modus vivendi (okay, not a word, but awesome nonetheless)
    * bourgeois (repeatedly used in The Beautiful Fall)
    * perusal
    * gamut
    * bellwether
    * amalgam

In case you were wondering/haven't noticed, probably 80% of the aforementioned (Ha! Shannon!) words came from The New York Times...Their writers have awesome jargon...