Vocab Week 5

lucidity-easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible: a lucid explanation.

When something is easily understood, i thought of a lightbulb going off in your head.

conciliatory-tending to conciliate: a conciliatory manner; conciliatory comments. Reconcile

I think of being back on good terms with someone else or a group of other people and i thought of people shaking hands as a good way of showing reconcilliation which is similar to conciliatory

countermand-to revoke or cancel (a command, order, etc.).

I thought of countermand as taking something back, and i thought of a bank and making a withdrawal on your account, then i finally thought of taking back money or something and thats how i came up with the image

acumen-keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.

with keen insight, its usually to the point where it's so good you think that the person has x-ray powers to your mind or something =D.

insurrection-an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.

When i thought of resistance against an established government, i went off the beaten path as just as resistance so i thought of recent history of George W. Bush and the huge protest that happened in N.Y.

fidelity-
1.
strict observance of promises, duties, etc.: a servant's fidelity.
2.
loyalty: fidelity to one's country.

complicit-
choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, esp. with others; having complicity.

emancipation-
1.
the act of emancipating.
2.
noun
freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child