Vocab #5!

Acumen; keen insight, sharpness, the ability to judge well, shrewdness.
The girl had an acumen for choosing her friends.

Adjudicate; to settle or determine judicially.
The judge had to adjudicate the case.

Anachronism; Something or someone that is not in correct historical time or chronological order.
The girl felt she was an anachronism and should've been born in the 60's.

Apocryphal; Of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
The teacher thought the paper was an apocryphal.

Disparity; Lack of similarity or equality.
Her fingerprint was a disparity.

Dissimulate; To disguise or conceal under a false appearance.
He didn't want the girl to know his feelings so he had to dissimulate them.

Empirical; Derived from experience
Her advice on boys was empirical.

Flamboyant; Strikingly bold or brilliant, showy.
The dress was flamboyant and had many bright colors and designs.

Fulsome; Offensive to good taste, excessive, overdone.
Her makeup was fulsome and tacky.

Immolate; To sacrifice, to kill by fire.
He had to immolate his happiness for his family.

Imperceptible; very light, subtle, gradual.
The weight loss was imperceptible, but improved over time.

Lackey; A servile follower, person who is treated like a servant.
He didn't want to do his homework so he forced his lackey to do it for him.

Liaison; Communication and contact between two or more parties; intimate relationship.
The class had a liaison about the novel.

Monolithic; Consisting of one piece, solid or unbroken.
The rock was monolithic.

Mot juste; The exact, appropriate word.
He found that "Sorry" was the mot juste in that situation.

Nihilism; Total rejection of established laws and institutions.
The rebel found that nihilism was a better route for him than conforming to the man.

Patrician; A person of noble or high rank.
The queen was a patrician.

Propitiate; To appease.
She tried to propitiate her friend by giving her advice.

Sic; Written parenthetically to denote that a word or phrase has been written intentionally strange or incorrect or has been quoted verbatim.
"We are very excited for the season and we hope your (sic) excited too!"

Sublimate; To make nobler or purer.
She decided to sublimate all the influences in her life.