Monday, September 10, 2012

Fall Vocab #5

Acumen: Keen insight; shrewdness

Adjudicate; To settle or determine an issue or dispute judicially

Apocryphal: Of doubtful authenticity

Disparity: Lack of similarity or equality

Dissimulate: To disguise or conceal under a false appearance

Empirical: Provable or verifiable by experiment or experience

Flamboyant: Strikingly bold or brilliant

Fulsome: Offensive to good taste; sickening; repulsive

Immolate: To sacrifice

Imperceptible: Very subtle; slight

Lackey: A footman ( Someone who runs errands or does favors for others)

Liaison: A connection or contract iniated by others

Monolithic: Consisting of one solid piece; unbroken

Mot Juste: The appropriate word or expression

Nihilism: Total rejection or destructiveness

Patrician: A person of high rank

Propitiate: To make favorably inclined

Sic: To attack; incite to attack

Sublimate: To modify the natural expression of in a socially acceptable manner

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