Vocab Unit 10 Level H

Question 1

Acumen

Answer 1

(n) keenness I’m insight; quickness or accuracy of judgement

syn: perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity
ant: ignorance, stupidity, obtuseness

Question 2

Adjudicate

Answer 2

(v) to act as judge in a matter; to settle through the use of judge or legal tribunal

syn: arbitrate, referee, meditate

Question 3

Anachronism

Answer 3

(n) a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to eachother

syn: chronological error

Question 4

Apocryphal

Answer 4

(adj) of doubtful or questionable authenticity

syn: fictions, mythical, spurious, bogus
ant: authentic, genuine, true

Question 5

Disparity

Answer 5

(v) a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity; un likeness

syn: discrepancy, incongruity
ant: similarity, likeness, congruity

Question 6

Empirical

Answer 6

((adj) derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory; so verifiable

syn: observed, experimental, pragmatic
ant: theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural

Question 7

Flamboyant

Answer 7

(adj) highly elaborate or orange; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold

synm showy, ostentatious, florid
ant: staid, sedate, decorous, seemly, sober

Question 8

Fulsome

Answer 8

(adj) offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening

syn: inordinate, repulsive
ant: understated, muted, restrained, agreeable

Question 9

Immolate

Answer 9

(v) to kill as a sacrifice especially by fire; to destroy or renounce for the sake of another

syn: slay, kill
ant: save, rescue, preserve

Question 10

Imperceptible

Answer 10

(adj) extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the sense or the mind

syn: minimal, undetectable
ant: conspicuous, noticeable, flagrant

Question 11

Lackey

Answer 11

(n) a uniformed male servant; a servile follower

syn: footman, toady, flunky, hanger-on
ant: lord, liege, employer, boss

Question 12

Liaison

Answer 12

(n) the contact or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such contact; any close relashionship; a thicking or binding agent used in cooking

syn: intermediary, channel

Question 13

Monolithic

Answer 13

(adj) characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity

syn: undifferentiated, massive, dense
ant: diversified, variorum, multifarious

Question 14

Mot juste

Answer 14

(n) the most suitable or exact word or expression

syn: right word
ant: misnomer, misusage, malapropism

Question 15

Nihilism

Answer 15

(n) a total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; extreme radicalism

ant: conservatism

Question 16

Patrician

Answer 16

(n) a member of the ruling class; a person of high noble rank or of prominent social standing; belonging to, befittin, or characteristic of such a person

syn: aristocrat, peer, noble, highborn
ant: peasant, commoner, plebeian

Question 17

Propitiate

Answer 17

(v) to make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself; to conciliate, satisfy, or appease

syn: placate, mollify
ant: estrange, alienate, provoke, annoy

Question 18

Sic

Answer 18

(adv) thus so; initially written so

Question 19

Sublimate

Answer 19

(v) to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a more higher or acceptable channel

syn: rechannel, elevate

Question 20

Dissimulate

Answer 20

(v) to hide or disguise one’s true thoughts, feelings, or intentions

syn: dissemble, pretend, misrepresent
ant: reveal