VOCAB. UNIT

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Sharpness, particularly of the mind or senses

- keenness, acuteness

ACUITY

To portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially

-depict, picture, render

DELINEATE

Marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principals

- perverted, degenerate, vicious, corrupt

DEPRAVED

To weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of ; enfeeble

- impair, cripple, paralyze

ENNERVATE

Intended or understood by only a select few; private, secret

- cryptic, arcane, recondite

ESOTERIC

Fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive

- fertile, teeming, prolific

FECUND

An arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness

- edict, dictum

FIAT

A fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion

- creation, invention, fancy

FIGMENT

To acquire as a result of effort; to gather and store away for future use

- collect, accumulate, accrue

GARNER

To set apart as holy or sacred; sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly; revere

- venerate, bless

HALLOW

A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify

- eccentricity, quirk, mannerism

IDIOSYNCRASY

Shame and disgrace-dishonor, humiliation, disrepute

IGNOMINY

Concerned with what is ordinary; earthly, worldly; relating to practical and material affairs

- humdrum, routine, prosaic

MUNDANE

A subtle or slight variation (as in color, meaning, quality)

- Delicate gradation or shade of difference; shade

NUANCE

Conceited, presumptuous, excessive, immoderate

- arrogant, inflated, unbridled

OVERWEENING

A strong attraction or inclination

- proclivity, propensity; predilection

PENCHANT

According to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance; alleged

- supposed

REPUTED

Reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy

- Specious reasoning

SOPHISTRY

Costly, rich, magnificent

- lavish, opulent, splendid or munificent

SUMPTUOUS

Present or existing everywhere

- omnipresent, pervasive, universal

UBIQUITOUS