Acumen: keep insight; shrewdness
Adjudicate: to settle judicially
Anarchism: an error in chronology
Apocryphal: of doubtful authenticity
Disparity: made up of different and often
inconsistent elements
Dissimulate: to hide under a false appearance
Empirical: originating in or based on
observation or experience
Flamboyant: marked by strikingly
elaborate or colorful display of behavior
Fulsome: characterized by abundance
Immolate: to offer on sacrifice
Imperceptible: not perceptible by a
sense or by the mind; extremely slight or gradual
Lackey: someone who does menial tasks
and runs errands for another
Liaison: a close bond or connection; interrelationship
Monolithic: consisting of or constituting
a single unit
Mon Juste: the exact, appropriate word
Nihilism: a viewpoint that traditional
values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
Patrician: a person of high birth
Propitiate: to gain or regain the favor
or goodwill of
Sic: to incite or urge to an attack, pursuit,
or harassment
Sublimate: to divert the expression of
from its unacceptable form to one that is considered more socially or
culturally acceptable
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