Unit 10 vocab 🐥

acumen 💡

• (n.) keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgment

adjudicate 🧑‍⚖

• (v.) to act as judge in a matter

• to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal

anachronism 🕰❌

• (n.) a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other

apocryphal ❓

• (n.) of doubtful or questionable authenticity

disparity ⚪⚫️

• (n.) a difference of inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality

• a dissimilarity, unlikeness

dissimulate 😶‍🌫

• (v.) to hide or disguise one’s true thoughts, feelings, or attentions

empirical 🧪

• (adj.) derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory

• so verifiable

flamboyant 🦩

• (adj.) highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold

fulsome 🤢

• (adj.) offensively insincere or excessive

• disgusting or sickening

immolate 🔪

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

• to destroy or renounce for the sake of another

imperceptible 🔎

• (adj.) extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind

lackey 🧍‍♂

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

liaison 🗣

• (n.) the contact or means of communication between groups

• someone acting as such a contact

• any close relationship

• a thickening or binding agent used in cooking

monolithic 🐘

• (adj.) characterized by massiveness, solidness, 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; a person of high rank

• (adj.) belonging to, befitting, or characteristic of such a person

propitiate 🙏

• (v.) to make someone or something favorably inclined towards oneself

• to conciliate, satisfy, or appease

sic 🖊

• (adv.) thus so; intentionally written so

sublimate 🤲🏻

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