Vocab 1 Flashcards
acumen
make good judgements (acute)
affiliations
to connect/ join
beholden
to owe someone favor
benign
not harmful, kind and gentle
Brazen
bold, no shame
Ceded
to give up
Coalesce
to come together
Contemptuous
be scornful, disrespectful
Deftness
skillful and clever
Deviously
skillful use of underhand tactics
DIscern
to recognize ( dis-apart + cerene-to see)
Dispargered
to be of little worth, to criticize someone
elicit
to bring out an emotion
Eloquence
fluent or persuasive writing or speaking
Exposition
description and explanation of idea or theory
Flaccid
soft or loose hanging, without water
happenstance
coincidence
impudence
rude
impute
represent something undesireable
“by imputing the interest rates they potentially introduce a measurement error”
indifferent
no particular interest
laudatory
express praise
litigation
to take legal action
nascent
coming into existence
nettles
to irritate
objurgation
to object severely
perceptual
interpret through ones senses
predecessor
to come before
profound
very great or intense
prosecuting
institute or conduct legal proceedings against
shrewdness
quality of having or showing good powers of judgement.
supine
lying upwards, failing to act or protest
surmounted
to overcome
systamatically
fixed plan
transient
last for a short time
venality
openness to bribery and corruption