Mystical Terms of High School

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Mystical Terms of High School
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Acumen
n.   Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of
judgment or insight.
the Irish (0-2) looked overmatched. And with
every stalled drive, 2-yard run and quarterback
sack, the offensive acumen of Coach Charlie Weis
was more open to question. Notre Dame has not
scored on offensive touchdown and has negative-8
yards...
The acumen of the prosecutor was the murderer's
downfall.
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presence of a pretension so manicured, so
recherché, that my feeble prattling about the
late works of Shusaku Endo seemed jejune by
comparison. As a youth, I had dreamed of one day
being acclaimed the most pretentious man in
Manhattan. Ruefully, I now...
Jejune
Juvenile, childish, immature Dull uninformed

Youre a jejune.
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Total Rejection of established laws and
institutions Anarchy, terrorism, or other
revelutionary activity
...Republicans enough time to credibly return the
focus to the economy, or to immigration, or to
the fight against radical Islamic nihilism. But
at present the party remains stuck in defensive
blame shifting -- what Jack Welch identified as
the third stage of crisis...
The nihilism of the students caused them to get
sent to the principals office.
Nihilism
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Quasar
a star like object that may send out radio waves
and other forms of energy many have large red
shifts or an increase in the wavelength of
radiation
The far off quasar was first discovered forty
years ago.
...or so gravitational lenses are now known in
which a galaxy or cluster of them produces arcs
or multiple images of a distant quasar. But for a
perfect bull's-eye one galaxy must be lined up
behind another at the right distance. This
geometry is so rare...
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