Monday, September 10, 2012

Vocab #5 9/10-9/14

1.Acumen- The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions
2.Adjudicate-Make a formal judgment or decision about a problem or disputed matter
3.Anachronism- something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time
4.Apocryphal-false
5.Disparity-lack of similarity or equality:difference
6.Dissimulate-to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble:
7.Empirical-provable or verifiable by experience or experiment
8.Flamboyant-strikingly bold or brilliant; showy
9.Fulsome-offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive; overdone or gross
10.Immolate-to kill as a sacrificial victim, as by fire; offer in sacrifice
11.Imperceptible-not perceptible; not perceived by the senses
12.Lackey-a servile follower;underling
13.Liaison-a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection
14.Monolithic-characterized by massiveness,invulnerability
15.Mot juste-the exact/appropriate word
16.Nihilism-total rejection of established laws and institution
17.Patrician-a person of noble or high rank
18.Propitiate-to make favorably inclined; appease
19.Sic-Set a dog or other animal on (someone or something).
20.Sublimate: purified or exalted
 

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