Acumen (n)

Keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgment

Syn: perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity

Ant: ignorance, stupidity

**accuracy

Adjudicate (v)

To act as judge in a matter; to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal

Syn: arbitrate, referee, mediate

**Judge, judicial

Anachronism (n)

A chronological misplacing of events, object, customs, or persons in regard to each other

Syn: chronological error

***anti-chronological

Apocryphal (adj)Of doubtful or questionable authenticity

Syn: fictitious, spurious, bogus

Ant: similarity, likeness, congruity

**mythical

Disparity (n)A difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity, unlikeness

Syn: discrepancy, incongruity

Ant: similarity, likeness, congruity ***discrepancy

Dissimulate (v)

To hide or disguise one’s true thoughts, feelings, or intentions

Syn: dissemble, pretend, misrepresent

Ant: reveal

**deceive

Empirical (adj)

Derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory

Syn: observed, experiential, pragmatic

Ant: theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural

**empirical evidence

Flamboyant (adj)

Highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold

Syn: showed, florid

Ant: sedate, staid

**flashy

Fulsome (adj)

Offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening

Syn: inordinate, repulsive

Ant: restrained, understated, muted

**full of it

Immolate (v)

To kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire; to destroy or renounce for the sake of another

Syn: slay, kill

Ant: save, rescue

**annihilate

Imperceptible (adj)

Extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind

Syn: minimal, undetectable

Ant: conspicuous, noticeable

**NOT perceivable

Lackey (n)A uniformed male servant; a servile follower

Syn: footman, toady

Ant: lord, liege, employer, boss **flunky

Liaison (n)

Contact or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such a contact

Syn: intermediary, channel

** link

Monolithic (adj)

Characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity

Syn: massive, dense

Ant: diversified, variform

**mammoth

Mot juste (n)

The most suitable or exact word or expression

syn: right word

Ant: misnomer, misusage

***mot = word, juste=just)(Just the right word)

Nihilism (n)

A total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; extreme radicalism

Ant: conservatism

**radicalism

Patrician (n)

A member of the ruling class; a person of high or noble rank or of prominent social standing

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

**privileged

Propitiate (v)

To make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself; to conciliate, satisfy, or appease

Syn: placate, mollify

Ant: estrange, alienate

**pacify

Sic (adv)

Thus so; intentionally written so

Sublimate (v)

To redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel

Syn: rechannel, elevate

**suppress