Vocabulary List #5 and Sentences

1. acumen:  (noun) keen insight; shrewdness
    The United States' CIA must have an immense of acumen to know as much as they do.
2. adjudicate: (verb)  to pronounce or decree by judicial sentence. 
    Man was made to destroy other men through there power to adjudicate.
3. anachronism:  (noun) something or someone that is not in its correct historical 
or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongsto an earlier time
    If Monty Python was walking around in the busy streets of New York, that would be an       anachronism.
4. apocryphal: (adjective)  of doubtful authorship or authenticity. 
    I am displeased with the students and their apocryphal homework.
5. disparity:  (noun) lack of similarity or equality; inequality; difference 
    The Civil War was a fight against disparity.
6. dissimulate: (verb)  to disguise or conceal under a false appearance 
    Secret agents often are good at dissimulating themselves.
7. empirical: (adjective)  derived from or guided by experience or experiment 
    My grandparents are both empirical.
8. flamboyant: (adjective)  strikingly bold or brilliant 
    Cheerleaders are often very flamboyant.
9. fulsome: (adjective)  offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive;overdone or gross 
    People who say that Saturday Night Live is fulsome must be strict to their taste of humor.
10. immolate: (verb)  to sacrifice 
      The Aztec's immolated someone every day.
11. imperceptible: (adjective)  very slight, gradual, or subtle 
      Someone's life develops at a imperceptible rate.
12. lackey: (noun)  a servile follower 
      Being a lackey must involve always serving others.
13. liaison: (noun)  the contact or connection maintained by communicationsbetween units of the armed forces or of any otherorganization in order to ensure concerted action,cooperation
      Most people who connect via the internet are a liaison.
14. monolithic: (adjective)  solid; of one peace; unbreakable
      Someone who is monolithic finds that they are out of the loop.
15. mot juste:  the exact, appropriate word 
      It is hard to find the mot juste when writing at a quick pace.
16. nihilism: (noun)  total rejection of established laws and institutions 
      Gangsters are a good example of a nihilism to the government
17. patrician: (noun)  a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat 
      A commoner finds it hard to be elevated to the rank of patrician
18. propitiate: (verb)  to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate 
      When a teacher makes an exception for you, the teacher is propitiating you.
19. sic: (verb)  to attack 
      I tell my dog to sic the robber.
20. sublimate: (verb)  to divert the energy of (a sexual or other biological impulse) from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use
      A bear once tried to eat my friend, but i was able to sublimate it by leading it away from him using a handful of oysters.