Vocabulary Week 5

Because this water is so clear, it is easy to see the sandy bottom. There is nothing clouding the lucidity and beauty of it.
Karla spoke with lucidity and we all understood what the plan of attack was.

This eagle's acumen helps it to spot and catch its prey from high in the sky. It has to both have very good sight, and be shrewd so as not to miss its prey as it flies.
With her acumen, the teacher never missed a note that was passed in her class.

This painting of a Polish insurrection clearly shows the chaos that usually ensues when such an event occurs. Although it is a bit harder to see, there are military figures wearing green and red, and there are citizens who are wearing regular clothes.
The slaves began planning an insurrection in the barn a mile from the farm.

Many ships probably relied on this steadfast lighthouse to help guide them near the cliff. The clouds in the background also remind me that a lighthouse usually must survive very forbidding storms.

Even so, Laura remained steadfast in her belief that she could do it alone.

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation his work to free the southern slave is probably the most famous emancipation in history.

William Seward pushed hard for the emancipation of the slaves, even before Lincoln did.

1. lucidity-n.-- easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible.
2. conciliatory-adj.-- tending to overcome distrust or animousity of; appease.
3. countermand-v.-- to revoke or cancel a command or order, etc.
4. acumen-n.-- keen sight; shrewdness.
5. insurrection-n.-- an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion or resistance against civil authority or an established government.
6. fidelity-n.-- strict observance of promises, duties, etc.; loyalty.
7. complicit-adj.-- choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others.
8. steadfast-adj.-- fixed in direction; firm in purpose, resolution, faith, etc.
9. emancipation-n.-- freeing someone from the control of another.
10. bolster-v.-- to support or prop up as if with a long narrow pillow.