| acumen |
superior insight; quickness and shrewdness of judgment, especially in practical matters. |
| befall |
to happen to. |
| candor |
the quality of openness, honesty, and straightforwardness in expression. |
| capitalist |
one who supports an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately owned, and prices are chiefly determined by open competition in a free market. |
| commune2 |
a group of people living together as a community, working collectively on land owned in common or by a government. |
| earthy |
realistic, practical, and unpretentious. |
| memoir |
an account of facts or events based primarily on the author's personal experience. |
| overweening |
particularly forward, vain, and self-promoting. |
| perspicacity |
keenness of mental perception or grasp; astuteness. |
| prostrate |
to lie or throw (oneself) flat on the ground, especially face down in an act of humility, worship, or the like. |
| terse |
effectively brief and to the point; concise; pithy. |
| titular |
having a title but none of the power or responsibility related to it; nominal. |
| tractable |
easy to manage or guide; docile. |
| unrelenting |
continuing with the same intensity, force, speed, or the like; not decreasing or weakening. |
| utopia |
(often capitalized) an imagined or proposed place or society that is ideal, especially in its laws, ethics, and treatment of humanity. |