Answer:
Revenge of the Geeks" by Alexandra Robbins is about the authors personal experience observing and analyzing the behaviors of excluded High School and Middle School students. Specifically, how they turn the things for which they are bullied or excluded into their successes later in their lives.
A. expensive, elaborate
Shakespeare's plays were always filled with elaborate decorations and speech.
vindicate - redeem (it means to clear someone of suspicion)
discern - recognise
miscreant - delinquent/criminal
precedence - priority
interdict - prohibit
brazen - shameless
inveterate - deep-rooted
abjure - reject
bereft - lacking something