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20 Cards in this Set
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acumen
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quickness of judgement, keenness of insight; acuity
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adjudicate
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to act as a judge, settle legally
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anachronism
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chronological misplacing of events; time error
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apocryphal
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doubtful or questionable authenticity
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disparity
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difference in rank, inequity in amount, unlikeness; discrepency
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dissimulate
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to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions
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empirical
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derived from, dependant upon, or guided by practical expeirience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory
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flamboyant
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highly elaborate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant
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fulsome
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offensively insincere, disgusting, sickening
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immolate
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to kill as sacrifice, especially by fire
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imperceptible
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extreamly slight, minimal, undectable
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lackey
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a uniformed male servant, follower, flunky
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liaison
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the means of communication between groups, someone acting as contact, close relationship, binding agent in cooking
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monolithic
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characterized by massiveness or solidness
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mot juste
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the most suitable or exact word or expression
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nihilism
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a total rejection of existing laws and moral values
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patrician
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a member of a ruling class, a person of high noble rank; belonging to such a person
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propitiate
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to make something favorably inclined towards oneself, to satisify or appease
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sic
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intentionally written so, thus so
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sublimate
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to redirect the energy of biological impulse into a more acceptable channel
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