1. Acumen (n) Keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgment
Syn: perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity
Ant: ignorance, stupidity
**accuracy

2. Adjudicate (v)
To act as judge in a matter; to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal
Syn: arbitrate, referee, mediate
**Judge, judicial

3. Anachronism (n)
A chronological misplacing of events, object, customs, or persons in regard to each other
Syn: chronological error
***anti-chronological

4. Apocryphal (adj) Of doubtful or questionable authenticity
Syn: fictitious, spurious, bogus
Ant: similarity, likeness, congruity
**mythical

5. Disparity (n)
A difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity, unlikeness
Syn: discrepancy, incongruity
Ant: similarity, likeness, congruity ***discrepancy

6. Dissimulate (v)
To hide or disguise one’s true thoughts, feelings, or intentions
Syn: dissemble, pretend, misrepresent
Ant: reveal
**deceive

7. Empirical (adj)
Derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory
Syn: observed, experiential, pragmatic
Ant: theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural
**empirical evidence

8. Flamboyant (adj)
Highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold
Syn: showed, florid
Ant: sedate, staid
**flashy

9. Fulsome (adj)
Offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening
Syn: inordinate, repulsive
Ant: restrained, understated, muted
**full of it

10. 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
**annihilate

11. Imperceptible (adj)
Extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind
Syn: minimal, undetectable
Ant: conspicuous, noticeable
**NOT perceivable

12. Lackey (n) A uniformed male servant; a servile follower
Syn: footman, toady
Ant: lord, liege, employer, boss **flunky

13. Liaison (n)
Contact or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such a contact
Syn: intermediary, channel
** link

14. Monolithic (adj)
Characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity
Syn: massive, dense
Ant: diversified, variform
**mammoth

15. Mot juste (n) The most suitable or exact word or expression
syn: right word
Ant: misnomer, misusage
***mot = word, juste=just) (Just the right word)

16. Nihilism (n)
A total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; extreme radicalism
Ant: conservatism
**radicalism

17. 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
**privileged

18. Propitiate (v)
To make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself; to conciliate, satisfy, or appease
Syn: placate, mollify
Ant: estrange, alienate
**pacify

19. Sic (adv)
Thus so; intentionally written so

20. Sublimate (v)
To redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel
Syn: rechannel, elevate
**suppress