Shostak level H, unit 10

Willard (United States of America)
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  1. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  2. adjudicate
    hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
  3. anachronism
    locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed
  4. apocryphal
    being of questionable authenticity
  5. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  6. dissimulate
    hide feelings from other people
  7. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  8. flamboyant
    tending to attract attention; marked by ostentatious display
  9. fulsome
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  10. immolate
    kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire
  11. imperceptible
    impossible or difficult to sense
  12. lackey
    a servile or submissive follower
  13. liaison
    a means of communication between groups
  14. monolithic
    imposing in size or bulk or solidity
  15. mot juste
    the appropriate word or expression
  16. nihilism
    complete denial of established authority and institutions
  17. patrician
    a person of refined upbringing and manners
  18. propitiate
    make peace with
  19. sic
    intentionally so written
  20. sublimate
    change directly from a solid into a vapor without melting
Created on Fri Aug 16 19:42:06 EDT 2013

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