WCHS Unit 10-H
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| acumen | (n) keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgment
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| adjucicate | (v) to act as judge in a matter; to settle throught the use of a judge or legal tribunal
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| anachronism | (n) a chroniological misplaceing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other
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| apocryphal | (adj) of doubtful oor questionable authenticity
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| disparity | (n) a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity, unlikeness
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| dissimulate | (v) to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions
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| empirical | (adj) derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory; so verifiable
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| flamboyant | (adj) highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold
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| fulsome | (adj) offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening
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| immolate | (v) to kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire; to destroy or renounce for the sake of another
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| imperceptible | (adj) extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind
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| lackey | (n) a uniformed male servant; a servile follower
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| liaison | (n) the contact or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such a contact; any close relationship; a thickening or binding agent used in cooking
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| monolithic | (adj) characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity
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| mot juste | (n) the most suitable or exact word or expression
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| nihilism | (n) a total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; extreme radicalism
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| patrician | (v) 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
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| sic | (adv) thus so; intentionally written so
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| sublimate | (v) to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel
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| propitiate | (v) to make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself; to conciliate, satisfy, or appease
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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