Chapter 4-6 Vocab Flashcards
Abstruse
Difficult to understand
Acumen
Quickness and keenness of o insight or judgement.
Ascertain
To discover or determine with certainty, especially through examination or experimentation.
Cerebral
Of or relating to the brain
Faculty
A natural power or ability
Obfuscate
To make difficult to understand
Ruminate
To think deeply about
Stymie
To prevent from making progress
Surmise
To guess; to draw a conclusion w/o sufficient evidence
Tenet
A principle or belief
Abeyance
Suspension; a condition of ring temporarily set aside
Abstemious
Eating a drinking little or in moderation
Circumvent
To Void or get around by clever maneuvering
Elude
To avoid capture
Eschew
To avoid, especially on moral or practical grounds.
Evasion
Clever avoidance
Malinger
To pretend to be ill or injured in order to avoid duty or work.
Oblique
Indirect; intentionally vague or ambiguous.
Shirk
To neglect, put off or avoid a duty or responsibility
Shun
To willfully ignore; to stay away from.
Converge
To come together at the same point
Crux
The main, central, or critical point or feature
Degradation
A decline to a lower condition, quality, or level.
Initiate
To take the first steps in a process; to begin something
