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| acumen | (n) keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgement Syn: perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity Ant: ignorance, stupidity, obtuseness |
| adjudicate | (v) to act as judge in a matter; to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal Syn: arbitrate, referee, mediate |
| anachronism | (n) a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other Syn: chronological error |
| apocryphal | (adj) of doubtful or questionable authenticity Syn: fictitious, mythical, spurious, bogus Ant: authentic, genuine, true |
| disparity | (n) a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity, unlikeness Syn: discrepancy, incongruity Ant: similarity, likeness, congruity |
| dissimulate | (v) to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions Syn: dissemble, pretend, misrepresent Ant: reveal |
| empirical | (adj) derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory; so verifiable Syn: observed, experiential, pragmatic Ant: theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural |
| flamboyant | (adj) highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold Syn: showy, ostentatious, florid Ant: staid, sedate, decorous, seemly, sober |
| fulsome | (adj) offensively insincere or excessive; |
| immolate | (V) to kill as a sacrifice, especially from fire,to destroy or renounce. SYN: slay, kill. ANT:save,resue,preserve. |
| Imperceptible | (ADJ) extreamly slight, incapable of being perceived by the senses of the mind. SYN: minimal,undetectable. ANT:conspicous,noticeable,flagrant. |
| Lackey | (N) a uniformed male servant. SYN:footman,toady,flunky,hanger-on. ANT:lord,liege,employer,boss |
| liaison | (N) the contact or means of communication between groups. SYN: characterized by massiveness,solidness,and total uniformity. |
| Monolithic | (ADJ) characterized by massiveness,solidness, and total uniformity. SYN: undifferentated, massive,dense. ANT: diversified, variform. |
| mot juste | (N) the most suitable or exact words. STN:right word. ANT:misnomer,misusage,malapropism |
| nihilism | (N) a total rejection of existing laws,institutions,and moral values. ANT: conservatism |
| patrician | (N) a member of a ruling class, person of high or noble rank. sYN: aristocrat,peer,noble. ANT: peasant,commoner,plebeian. |
| propitiate | (V) to make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself. STN: placate,mollify. ANT:estrange,alienate, provoke |
| sic | (ADV) thus so; intentionally written so. |
| sublimate | (v) to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel. SYN: rechannel, elevate. |
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