Vocabulary from Golden Globe Winners

The Golden Globe Awards were handed out on January 10, 2016. The Golden Globes is one of the few award shows that honors both film and television on the same night, so stars from different sections of the entertainment industry socialize with and applaud one another. Here are ten words from television shows, films and performances that took home awards at this year's Golden Globes.
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  1. impertinent
    improperly forward or bold
    Remember, whoever is most impertinent has the best chance. I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
    - Best Comedy Winner "Mozart in the Jungle," Season 1 Episode 4
  2. indifferent
    marked by a lack of interest
    Steve Jobs: I don't want people to dislike me. I'm indifferent to whether they dislike me.
    - Best Screenplay Winner "Steve Jobs" by Aaron Sorkin
  3. insubordinate
    not submissive to authority
    John Sculley: You're issuing contradictory instructions, you're insubordinate, you make people miserable.
    Steve Jobs: Even if that were true, it doesn't sound that diabolical to me.
    - Best Screenplay Winner "Steve Jobs" by Aaron Sorkin
  4. diabolical
    showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness
    hn Sculley: You're issuing contradictory instructions, you're insubordinate, you make people miserable.
    Steve Jobs: Even if that were true, it doesn't sound that diabolical to me.
    - Best Screenplay Winner "Steve Jobs" by Aaron Sorkin
  5. coordinate
    bring order and organization to
    Every human being has a basic instinct: to help each other out. If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception
    - Best Actor winner Matt Damon, in "The Martian"
  6. methodical
    characterized by orderliness
    Every day, we change the world, but to change the world in a way that means anything, that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It’s slow. It’s methodical. It’s exhausting. We don’t all have the stomach for it.
    - Best Drama Winner Mr. Robot Season 1, Episode 5
  7. obsess
    be preoccupied with something
    Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems.
    - Sadness, in Best Animared Feature winner "Inside Out"
  8. shard
    a broken piece of a brittle artifact
    A million shards of glass
    That haunt me from my past
    As the stars begin to gather
    And the light begins to fade
    When all hope begins to shatter
    Know that I won't be afraid
    - lyric from Best Song Winner "Writing's on the Wall"
  9. revenant
    someone who has returned from the dead
    As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe. Keep breathing. When there is a storm. And you stand in front of a tree. If you look at its branches, you swear it will fall. But if you watch the trunk, you will see its stability.
    - from Best Motion Picture, Drama, winner, The Revenant
  10. literal
    reflecting the essential or genuine character of something
    [ A room-sized computer has been placed where some office workers used to eat lunch. Some are wondering what this development "means"]
    Harry Crane: Look, I’m sorry you lost your lunch room, it’s not symbolic.
    Don Draper: No it's quite literal.
    -Best Actor, TV Drama, Jon Hamm in Mad Men Season 7, Episode 4
Created on Sun Jan 10 22:20:21 EST 2016 (updated Mon Jan 11 09:14:07 EST 2016)

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