n.) keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgement
Acument
v.) to act as judge in matter; to settle through the use of a judge or legal
tribunal
Adjudicate
n.) a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons
in regard to each other
Anachronism
adj.) of doubtful or questionable authenticity
apocryphal
n.) a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a
dissimilarity, unlikeness
Disparity
v.) to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions
Dissimulate
adj.) derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience,
observation, or experiment, rather than by theory; so verifiable
empirical
adj.) highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold
flamboyant
adj.) offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening
fulsome
v.) to kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire; to destroy or renounce for the
sake of another
Immolate
adj.) extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or
the mind
imperceptible
n.) a uniformed male servant; a servile follower
Lackey
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
Liaison
adj.) characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity
monolithic
n.) the most suitable or exact word expression
Mot juste
n.) a total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; extreme
radicalism
Nihilism
n.) a member of the ruling class; a person of high or noble rank or
prominent social standing; (adj.) belonging to, befitting, or characteristic of such
person
Patrician
v.) to make someone or something favorable inclined toward oneself; to
conciliate, satisfy, or appease
Propitiate
(adv) thus so; intentionally written so
Sic
v.) to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher
or more acceptable channel
Sublimate
perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity
Acument
arbitrate, referee, mediate
Adjudicate
showy, ostentatious, florid
Flamboyant
footman, toady, flunky, hanger-on
Lackey
n.) aristocrat, peer, noble (adj.) highborn
Patrician
placate, mollify
Propitiate
slay; kill
Immolate