Unit 10 Vocab Flashcards
Perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity
Acumen
(N) keenness of insight;quickness or accuracy of judgment
Acumen
(V) To act as judge in a matter; to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal
Adjudicate
Arbitrate referee mediate
Adjudicate
(N)A chronological misplacing of events object’s customs or persons in regard to each other
Anachronism
Chronological error
Anachronism
(Adj)Of doubtful or questionable authenticity
apocryphal
Fictitious mythical spurious bogus
Apocryphal
(N)A difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality , a dissimilarity ,unlike ness
Disparity
(V)To hide or disguise one’s true thoughts, feelings, or intentions
Dissimulate
Discrepancy incongruity
Disparity
Dissemble pretend misrepresent
Dissimulate
(Adj) Derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory so verifiable
Empirical
Observed experiential pragmatic
Empirical
Highly elaborate, or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold
Flamboyant
Showy ostentatious floorid
Flamboyant
Offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening
Full some
Inordinate, repulsive
Fulsome
To kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire: to destroy a renounce for the sake of another
Immolate
Slay, kill
Immolate
(Adj) Extremely slight incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind
Imperceptible
Minimal undetectable
Imperceptible
(N) A uniformed male servant a servile follower
Lackey
Footman toady flunky hanger on
Lackey
The contact or means of communication between groups: someone acting as such a contact: any close relationship; a thickening or binding agent used in cooking
liaison
Intermediary channel
Liaison
(Adj) Characterized by massiveness solidness and total uniformity
Monolithic
Undifferentiated massive dense
Monolithic
(N) The most suitable or exact word or expression
Mot juste
Right word
Mot juste
A total rejection of existing laws institutions and moral values extreme radicalism
Nihilism
A member of the ruling class: a person hired or noble rank or of prominent social standing: belonging to befitting,characteristic of such a person
Patrician
Aristocrat Noble Highbourne peer
Patrician
To make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself conciliate satisfy or appease
Propitiate
Placate mollify
Propitiate
The so intentionally written so
Sic
To redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulses into a higher a more acceptable channel
Sublimate
Rechannel elevate
Sublimate
