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Vocab Week 5 LWO
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acuity | sharpness; acuteness |
| delineate | portray, sketch, accurately describe, picture, render |
| depraved | marked by evil or corruption; perverted, degenerate, vicious, corrupt |
| enervate | weaken or lessen the mental/moral/physical vigor; enfeeble; impair, cripple, paralyze |
| esoteric | intended to be understood by a select few; private, secret; cryptic, arcane, recondite |
| fecund | fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive; fertile, teeming, prolific |
| fiat | arbitrary order or decree; command or act of will or conciousness; dictum, ukase |
| figment | fabrication of the mind; arbitrary notion, invention, fancy |
| garner | to acquire as result of effort; to gather/store away - for future; collect, accumulate, accrue |
| hallow | holy, sacred; honor greatly, revere; venerate, bless |
| idiosyncrasy | peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify; quirk, mannerism |
| ignominy | shame and disgrace; humiliation, disrepute, odium |
| mundane | earthly, worldly, practical and material affairs, concerned with what is ordnary; prosaic, humdrum, routine, subliminary |
| nuance | subtle or slight variation, delicate gradation or shade of difference; shade, nicety, refinement |
| overweening | concieted, presumptuous, excessive; arrogant, unbridled, inflated |
| penchant | strong attraction or inclination; proclivity, predilection |
| reputed | according to reputation or general belief; putative, reputable |
| sophistry | reasoning that seems plausible but is flase logic; specious reasoning |
| sumptuous | costly, rich, magnificent; lavish, munificent, opulent, splendid |
| ubiquitous | present or existing everywhere; persuasive, universal |