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Acumen (n)

Enhance your vocabulary with words showcasing keen judgment, act as a judge in a matter, and prevent chronological errors. Explore the depths of dubious authenticity and elegant verbosity in communication. Discover ways to hide your true intentions and derive knowledge from practical experience. Dive into the world of vivid flamboyance and disingenuous displays. Sacrifice understood perspectives to achieve perceived imperceptibility. Delve into societal structures with relationships of power and influence. Learn techniques to pacify and redirect impulses for higher pursuits.

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Acumen (n)

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  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

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