Sadlier Oxford's Vocabulary Workshop Level H Unit 10
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acumen | (n.) keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgment SYN: perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity ANT: ignorance, stupidity, obtuseness |
| adjudicate | (v.) to act as judge in a matter; to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal SYN: arbitrate, referee, mediate |
| anachronism | (n.) a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other SYN: chronological error |
| apocryphal | (adj.) of doubtful or questionable authenticity SYN: fictitious, mythical, spurious, bogus ANT: authentic, genuine, true |
| disparity | (n.) a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity, unlikeness SYN: discrepancy, incongruity ANT: similarity, likeness, congruity |
| dissimulate | (v.) to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions SYN: dissemble, pretend, misrepresent ANT: reveal |
| empirical | (adj.) derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory; so verifiable SYN: observed, experiential, pragmatic ANT: theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural |
| flamboyant | (adj.) highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold SYN: showy, ostentatious, florid ANT: staid, sedate, decorous, seemly, sober |
| fulsome | (adj.) offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening SYN: inordinate, repulsive ANT: understated, muted, restrained, agreeable |
| 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, preserve |
| imperceptible | (adj.) extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind SYN: minimal, undetectable ANT: conspicuous, noticeable, flagrant |
| lackey | (n.) a uniformed male servant; a servile follower SYN: footman, toady flunky, hanger-on ANT: lord, liege, employer, boos |
| liaison | (n.) the contact or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such a contact; any close relationship; a thickening or binding agent used in cooking SYN: intermediary, channel |
| monolithic | (adj.) characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity SYN: undifferentiated, massive, dense ANT: diversified, variform, multifarious |
| mot juste | (n.) the most suitable or exact word or expression SYN: right word ANT: misnomer, misusage, malapropism |
| nihilism | (n.) a total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; extreme radicalism ANT: conservatism |
| 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 SYN: (n.) aristocrat, peer, noble; (adj.) highborn ANT: (n.) peasant, commoner, plebeian |
| propitiate | (v.) to make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself; to conciliate, satisfy, or appease SYN: placate, mollify ANT: estrange, alienate, provoke, annoy |
| 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 |
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