| Term | Definition |
|---|
| acuity | sharpness, particularly of the mind or sense (syn) keenness, acuteness (ant) dullness, obtuseness |
| delineate | to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially (syn) dict, picture, rnder |
| depraved | marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principle (syn) perverted, degenerate, vicious, corrupt (ant) moral, virtuous, upright, uncorrupted |
| enervate | to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of;enfeeble, hamstring (syn) impair, cripple, paralyze (ant) invigorate, strengthen, buttress |
| esoteric | intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret (syn) occult, cryptic, arcane, recondite (ant) accessible, comprehensible, intelligible |
| fecund | fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive (syn) fertile, teeming, prolific (ant) infertile, barren, unproductive |
| fiat | an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or conciousness (syn) edict, dictum, ukase |
| figment | a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion (syn) ceration, invention, fancy |
| garner | to acquire as the result of an effort; to gather and store away as for future use (syn) collect,accumulate, accrue (ant) scatter, squander, waste, dissipate |
| hallow | to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere (syn) venerate, bless (ant) desecrate, defile, profane |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity that senves to distinguish or identify (syn) eccentricity, quirk, mannerism |
| ignominy | shame and disgrace (syn) dishonor, humiliation, disrepute, odium (ant) honor, glory, acclaim |
| mundane | earthly, worldly, relation to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary (syn) prosaic, humdrum, routine, sublunary (ant) heavenly, unworldly, spiritual, trancendental |
| nuance | a subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality), delicate graduation or shade of difference (syn) shade, nicety, refinement |
| overweening | conceited, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate (syn) arrogant, unbridled, inflated (ant) restrained, understated, modest, meek |
| penchant | strong attraction or inclination (syn) proclivity, propensity, predilection (ant) disinclination, aversion |
| reputed | according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation; alleged (syn) putative, reputable, supposed (ant) proven, corroborated, autherticated |
| sophistry | reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy (syn) specious reasoning |
| sumptuous | costly, rich, magnificent (syn) lavish, munificent, opulent, splendid (ant) skimpy, meager, stingy, niggardly, spartan |
| ubiquitous | prsent or existing everywhere (syn) omnipresent, pervasive, universal (ant) restricted, limited, rare, scarce |
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