Vocab list #5
1. acumen- keen insight; shrewdness.
Remarkable acumen in business matters.

2. anachronism- an error in chronology in which a person, object etc. are assigned a date or a period not in the correct one.

3. apocryphal- false; spurious
He told a apocryphal story about how the breakup happened but the truth was later revealed.

4. disparity- lack of similarity or equality
The woman was constantly reminded about the disparity of wealth.

5. dissimulate- to disguise or conceal under a false appearance

6. empirical- derived from or guided by experience or experiment


7. flamboyant- strikingly brilliant; colorful
The flamboyant colors of the Mexican dress really popped.

8. fulsome- offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive
A table filled with a heaped of fulsome greasy foods.

9. immolate- to sacrifice, destroy by fire
The brother sacrificed himself to save his mother.

10. imperceptible- very slight or gradual, or subtle
The imperceptible road was quiet steep.

11. lackey- a servile flower, toady
In danger of humiliation he sent a lackey to sit next to him.

12. liaison-the contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action,cooperation
It would have been against their principles to remark on an open liaison.

13. monolithic- consisting of one piece made by stone
The monolithic cow heard is now prone to disease.

14. mot juste- the exact appropriate word.
My mom had to find the mot juste way to not use profanity.

15. nihilism- total rejection of established laws and institutions

16. patrician- a person of very good background, education, or good refinement
Tom cruise could be cast in a role as a patrician senator.

17. propitiate- to make favorably inclined; conciliate

18. sic- used in brackets to show an error written off of the original copy

19. sublimate- divert into a culturally higher or socially more sociable activity