Vocab 10-12
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- Keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgement S: perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity A: ignorance, stupidity, obtuseness
- acumen
- to act as judge in a matter; to settle throught the use of a judge or legal tribunal S:arbitrate, referee, mediate
- adjudicate
- a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other S: chronological error
- anachronism
- 0f doubtful or questionable authenticity S: fictitious, mythical, spurious, bogus A: authentic, genuine, true
- apocryphal
- a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or guality; a dissimilarity,, unlikeness S: discrepancy, incongruity A:similarity, likeness, congruity
- disparity
- to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions S: dissemble, pretend, misrepresent A: reveal
- dissimulate
- derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory; so verifiable S:observed, experiential, pragmatic A:theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural
- empirical
- highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant, or bold S:showy, ostentatious, florid A:staid, sedate, decorous, seemly, sober
- flamboyant
- offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening S:inordinate, repulsive A:understated, muted, restrained, agreeable
- fulsome
- to kill as a sacrifice, especially by fie; to destroy or renounce for the sake of another S;slay, kill A;save, rescue, preserve
- immolate
- extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind S;minimal, undetectable A;conspicuous, noticeable, flagrant
- imperceptible
- a uniformed male servant; a servile follower S:footman, toady,flunky, hanger-on A; lord, liege,employer, boss
- lackey
- contact or means of communication between groups, someone acting as such a contact; any close relationship, a thickening or binding agent used in cooking S:intermediary, channel
- liaison
- characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity S:undifferentiated, massive,tense A:diversified, variform, multifarious
- monolithic
- the most suitable or exact word or expression S;right word A;misnomer, misusage, malapropism
- mot juste
- a total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values,; extreme radicalism A;conservatism
- nihilism
- member of the ruling class; a person of high or noble rank or of prominent social standing; belonging to, befitting, or characteristic of such a person S:aristocrat, peer, noble;highborn A:peasant, commoner, plebeian
- patrician
- to make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself; to conciliate, satisfy, or appease S;placate, mollify A;estrange, alienate, provoke, annoy
- propitiate
- thus so; intentionally written so
- sic
- to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel S;rechannel, elevate
- sublimate