Sadlier Level H Unit 10

definitions are not always official

Acumen

(n.) ability to pick something up quickly; keenness

Adjudicate

(v.) to act as a judge to settle a matter

Anachronism

(n.) something that is out of place, time wise (like a computer in a story set in the 1500s)

Apocryphal

(adj.) of doubtful or questionable authenticity

Disparity

(n.) a difference/inequality in degree, rank, quality, etc.

Dissimulate

(v.) to mask one’s thoughts/feelings/intentions

Empirical

(adj.) derived from practical experience, observation, or experiment

Flamboyant

(adj.) highly elaborate, strikingly brilliant/bold

Fulsome

(adj.) offensively insincere or sickening

Immolate

(v.) to kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire

Imperceptible

(adj.) incapable of being perceived by the senses

Lackey

(n.) a uniformed male servant; a servile follower

Liaison

(n.) the middle man when communicating between groups

Monolithic

(adj.) characterized by massiveness and total uniformity

Mot Juste

(n.) the most suitable or exact word or expression

Nihilism

(n.) a total rejection of existing laws; extreme radicalism

Patrician

(n.) a member of the ruling class or someone of high rank

(adj.) characteristic of such a person

Propitiate

(v.) to make someone favorably inclined toward oneself

Sic

(adv.) thus so; intentionally written so (like if someone is quoting something from an interview and the person was speaking with bad grammar, you follow the quote with “(sic)” to indicate the mistakes were left in writing on purpose cuz that’s how it was said")

Sublimate

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