Vocabulary Fall list #5

acumen (noun): keen insight. adjudicate (verb): to settle or determine. anachronism (noun): something or someone that is not in its correct historical time. apocryphal (adj) : of doubtful authorship or authenticity. disparity (noun): inequality; There will always be disparity of wealth within this society. dissimulate (verb) : to disguise or conceal under a false appearance. empirical (adj): derived from or guided by experience or experiment flamboyant (adj): strikingly bold or brilliant; showy fulsome (adj) : offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive;overdone or gross immolate (verb) : to sacrifice imperceptible (adj): very slight, gradual, or subtle. lackey (noun) : a servile follower liaison (noun) : a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection. monolithic (adj): consisting of one piece; solid or unbroken mot juste (noun): the exact, appropriate word nihilism (noun): total rejection of established laws and institutions. patrician (noun) : a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. propitiate (verb) : to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate. sic (verb): to incite to attack sublimate(adj): to make nobler or purer & I want to thank Valerie Gonzales for the definitioins! :)