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acumen |
quickness or accuracy of judgment, perspacity, acuity |
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adjudicate |
to act as judge in a matter, arbitrate, referee, mediate |
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anachronism |
chronological error |
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apocryphal |
of doubtful or questionable authenticity, fictitious, mythical, bogus |
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disparity |
a dissimilarity, unlikeness, discrepancy |
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dissimulate |
to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions, pretend, misrepresent |
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empirical |
derived from, dependent on, or guided by practical experience, observed, pragmatic, experiential |
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flamboyant |
highly elaborate or ornate, vividly colored, showy, ostentatious, florid |
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fulsome |
offensively insincere or excessive, disgusting, sickening, inordinate, repulsive |
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immolate |
to kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire, slay, kill |
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imperceptible |
extremely slight, incapapble of being percieved by the senses or the mind, minimal, undetectable |
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lackey |
a uniformed male servant, a servile follower, footman, toady, flunky, hanger-on |
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liason |
the contact or means of communication between groups, any close relationship, intermediary, channel |
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monolithic |
characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity, undifferentiated, massive, dense |
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mot juste |
the most suitable or exact word or expression, right word |
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nihilism |
a total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values, extreme radicalism |
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patrician |
a member fo the ruling class, a person of high or noble rank, aristocrat, perr, noble, highborn |
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propitiate |
to nake someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself, placate, mollify |
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sic |
thus so, intentionally written so |
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sublimate |
to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual inpulse into a higher or more acceptable channel, rechannel, elevate |
