E2: Last Vocabulary List

Quiz on June 8

• Acumen: keen insight; shrewdness
• Adulting: the ability to take care of business all the time (pay bills, keep up a house, be social, and mostly legal)
• Caustic: capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue; severely critical or sarcastic
• Dilettante: a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for enjoyment; may find a true passion in one of these or in the promotion of others; a dabbler
• F.O.C. (pronounced "folk"): family of choice—people who have a tighter bond than just friendship and support each other emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and (sometimes) financially (for short periods)
• Friends: people who come together for support and mutual mental and emotional (sometimes financial) benefit.
• Friendly: treating other people with courtesy and sincerity without wishing to move into friendship
• Halcyon: calm; peaceful; tranquil
• Jobing: doing the best one can with the good and the bad that life throws down (references the Judeo-Christian story of Job)