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acumen
keeness of insight; quickness or acuracy
s perspicacity, schrewdness, acuity
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adjudicate
to act as a judge in a matter, to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal
s arbitrate, referee, mediate
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anachronism
chronological misplacing of events objects customs or persons in regard to each other
s chronoligical error
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apocryphal
of doubtful or quesiotnable authenticity
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disparity
a difference or inequality in age rank inlikeness
- s discrepancy, incongruity
- a similarity, likeness, congruity
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dissimulate
- to hide or disguise ones true thoughts
- s dissemble, pretend, misrepresent
- a reveal
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empirical
derived from dependant upon
- s observed experiental, pragmatic
- a theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural
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flamboyant
highly elaborate or ornate, vividly colored, trikingly brilliant or bold
- s showy, ostentatious, florid
- a staid, sedate, decorous, seemly, sober
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fulsome
offensively insincere or excessive, disgusting
- s inordinate, repulsive
- a understand, musted restrained, agreeable
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immolate
to kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire, to destroy or renounce for the sake of another
- s kill slay
- a save rescue, preserve
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imperceptible
extremely slight, incapable o fbeing percieved by the senses or the mind
- s minimal, undetectable
- a conspicuous, noticable, flagrant
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lackey
a uniformed male servant
s footman, toady, hanger-on
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liaison
the contact or means of communication
s intermediary, channel
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monolithic
characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity
undiffentiated, massive, dense
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mot juste
the most suitable or exact word
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patrician
a member of the ruling class, noble status,
- aristocrat, peer noble,
- peasant, commoner
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propitiate
to make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself, satisfy, appease
- placate, molify
- estrange, alienate
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sic
thus so, intentionally written so
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sublimate
ot redirect the energy of a biological or instincual impilse into a higher or more acceptable channel
s rechannel, elevate
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nihilism
total rejection of existing laws
a conservatism
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