Unit 10 vocab

Mrs. Blankenship

264455297	adjudicate	to act as a judge in a matter; to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal; to arbitrate; referee; mediate; to appease, placate, mollify
264455298	fulsome	offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting; sickening; inordinate; excessive, inordinate, repulsive
264455299	acumen	keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy or judgement; insight, perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity
264455300	dissimulate	to hide or disguise one's true thoughts or feelings or intentions; to dissemble, pretend; to misrepresent
264455301	anachronism	a chronological misplacing of events, objects, persons or customs in regard to each other; a chronological error
264455302	empirical	derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment rather than by theory; so verifiable; observed, experimental, pragmatic
264455303	apocryphal	of doubtful or questionable authenticity; fictitious, mythical, spurious, bogus
264455304	disparity	a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity; discrepancy, incongruity, difference
264455305	flamboyant	highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored, strikingly brilliant or bold; showy, ostentatious, ornate, florid
264455306	immolate	to kill as a sacrifice, esp. by fire, to destroy or renounce for the sake of another; to sacrifice; to slay, kill
264455307	sublimate	to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel; to re-channel, redirect, elevate
264455308	mot juste	the most suitable or exact word or expression; the right word
264455309	propitiate	to make someone or something favorably inclined towards oneself; to conciliate, satisfy, or appease; mollify placate
264455310	imperceptible	extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind; minimal, slight, undetectable
264455311	lackey	a uniformed male servant; a servile follower; a toady; flunky; hanger on
264455312	nihilism	a total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; extreme racism; total repudiation of the "establishment"
264455313	liaison	the contact or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such a contact; any close relationship, channel; an intermediary, channel, contact
264455314	monolithic	characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity; undifferentiated, massive, dense
264455315	sic	thus so; intentionally written so; thus, so
264455316	patrician	a member of the ruling class, a person of high or noble rank or of prominent social standing; belonging to, befitting, or characteristic of such a person; an aristocrat, peer, noble, highborn