capacious - cah-PAY-shus - roomy, having a lot of space inside

Example: "Digital camera owners are asked to note that a camera won't be of much use without a capacious memory card to store photos or videos on."

imbroglio - im-BRO-lee-oh - an extremely confused, complicated or embarrassing situation

Example: "The Tiger Woods imbroglio might finally leave the front pages, now that he has confessed, apologized & promised to make reparation for his philanderings."

invictus - in-VIK-tus - Latin for "unconquered"

Example: "Invictus is the title of a poem by William Ernest Henley, which Nelson Mandela read & was inspired by, while in a South African prison."

egotist - ee-goh-tist - the practice of talking & thinking of oneself excessively due to an overblown image of self-importance

Example: "Ambrose Bierce once said, 'An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than me.'"

bourgeois - boor-SZHWA - of the middle class, boring, conventional, materialistic, "square"

Example: "With three new biographies of Andy Warhol renewing interest in the 50s artist , critic David Wallace-Wells belittled him for his Campbell's tomato soup cans and elaborate multiple reproductions of movie stars, calling him 'a pop artist out to out-bourgeois the bourgeois.'"

fait accompli - feht-ak-kom-PLEE - a done deed, a thing that has already happened

Example: "Delegates to the Copenhagen discussion on global waming have come to an early agreement that serious global changes have become a serious fait accompli."

epiphany - ee-PIF-uh-NEE - insight, realization, manifestation

Example: "The Week magazine recently quoted 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who in a sudden epiphany wrote: 'Science is organization of knowledge; wisdom is organization of life.'"