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vocabulary12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| • Acumen: | accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight |
| • Fatuous: | Vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish. |
| • Hubris: | Overbearing pride or presumption. |
| Antebellum: | Belonging to the period before a war, especially the American Civil War. |
| chicanery: | Deception by trickery or sophistry. |
| equinox: | Either of two points on the celestial sphere at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator. |
| belie: | To show to be false: |
| feckless: | Careless and irresponsible. |
| • Kowtow: | To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China. |
| • Nanotechnology: | The science and technology of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules . |
| • Plagiarize: | To use and pass off as one's own. |
| • Obsequious : | Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning |
| • Sanguine: | Of the color of blood; red. The fancy way for saying your blood is red u say sanguine. |
| • Xenophobe: | A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples. |
| omnipotent: | One having unlimited power or authority . |
| nihilism: | :The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement. |
| gauche: | Lacking social polish; tactless. |
| churlish : | Difficult to work with, such as soil; intractable. |