Vocab List #5

acumen – noun. a tapering point; shrewdness shown by keen insight

            - My only question mark would be over his tactical acumen in the premier league.
adjudicate – verb. bring to an end; settle conclusively; put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of

            - The Judge adjudicated the case.
anachronism – noun. an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

            - The anachronism history teacher was very out of place in a computer class; especially with his tweed jacket and bowtie.
apocryphal - adj. being of questionable authenticity; of or belonging to the Apocrypha
            - The apocryphal paper that the student turned made the teacher weary.

disparity – noun. inequality or difference in some respect

            -Two friends had a disparity over who gets to date the boy.
dissimulate – verb. hide (feelings) from other people

            -I dissimulated what I was feeling from my friends because I was not in the mood to share.
empirical - adj. derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; relying on medical quackery

            - Empirical investigation in scientific history
flamboyant - adj. richly and brilliantly colorful; elaborately or excessively ornamented; 

            - When going to a ball you may or may not want the most flamboyant dress you can find.
fulsome - adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

            - Kathy holds herself in a fulsome manor sometimes which people don’t respond to well.
immolate – verb. offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction

            - In Africa tribes immolate people like it is a regular thing.
imperceptible - adj. impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses

            - Kathy told everyone a imperceptible story that everyone thought was a lie.
lackey – noun. a male servant (especially a footman); a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

            - The lackey for the manager earned no respect from any of his co-workers.
liaison – noun. a channel for communication between groups; a usually secretive relationship

            -The Liasison to the CEO was not doing his job because he was horrible at communicating.
monolithic - adj. characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity; imposing in size or bulk or solidity.

            - A group of monolithic students came into the museum and were too hard to handle.
nihilism – noun. a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake; complete denial of all established authority and institutions; the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal

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patrician - adj. of the hereditary aristocracy or ruling class of ancient Rome or medieval Europe; of honorary nobility in the Byzantine empire; belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; noun a person of refined upbringing and manners; a member of the aristocracy

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propitiate - verb make peace with

            -  The two friends propitiated their friendship after realizing it was a stupid thing to fight over.
sic - adv. intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase); verb urge a dog to attack someone

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sublimate - adj. made pure; noun the product of vaporization of a solid

            - The women sublimated herself after realizing she did not want to sin anymore