Unit 10-H Definitions
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hillpiedmont on May 4, 2010
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These flashcards have the vocabulary words on the front and the definition of each word on the back. The following words are in Unit 10.
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French | English |
|---|---|
 Acumen | Keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgment. |
| Adjudicate | To act as judge in a matter; to settle through the use of a judge or a legal tribunal. |
| Anachronism | A chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other. |
| Apocryphal | Of doubtful or questionable authenticity. |
| Disparity | A difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity, unlikeness. |
| Dissimulate | To hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions. |
| Empirical | Derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory; so verifiable. |
| Flamboyant | Highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold. |
| Fulsome | Offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening. |
| Immolate | To kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire; to destroy or renounce for the sake of another. |
| Imperceptible | Extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind. |
| Lackey | A uniformed male servant; a servile follower. |
| Liaison | The contract or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such a contact; any close relationship; a thickening or binding agent used in cooking. |
| Monolithic | Characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity. |
| Mot Juste | The most suitable or exact word or expression. |
| Nihilism | A total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; extreme radicalism. |
| 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. |
| Propitiate | To make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself; to conciliate, satisfy, or appease. |
| Sic | Thus so; intentionally written so. |
| Sublimate | To redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel. |
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