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Vocabulary #11

vocab AP english test

QuestionAnswer
Historionic theatrical, exaggerated
Laud praise
Obstreperous noisy and boisterous
Portend fortell
Retraction withdrawal, cancellation of a statement
Titter giggle quietly
Adversity hardship
Broach start to discuss, approach
Deference respect
Esoteric obscure and difficult to understand
Hoary old
Lavish on a grand scale, wasteful
Obtuse mentally dull
Portent a warning sign, omen
Tome large book
Advocate support
Brusque blunt, abrupt
Defoliate cause leaves to fall off
Epouse promote, take up, support
Hone sharpen, increase, whet
Obsequious servile, submissive
Thwart prevent, frustrate
Adamant muscular
Equivocate speak ambiguously; avoid telling the truth
Larency Theft, robbery, stealing
Ponderous weighty, slow and heavy
Retention preservation, withholding
Timorous cowardly, fearful
adroit skilful
Brevity being brief
Decorum dignified, decent, correct behavior
Err make a mistake
largess generosity
obsolete no longer valid
Pontificate speak pompously, dogmatically
Reticent restrained holding something bac, uncommunicative
tirade stream of verbal abuse
adulation strong admiration, worship
bristle to show irritation
brawny muscular
Acrid sharp, pungent
boorish ill-mannered
cynical believing that people act only out of selfish motives
epistle a letter (form of cummunication)
Heresy against orthodox opinion
lance spear, spike, javelin
obscure difficult to understand, partially hidden
terse concise, to the point
bourgeois middle class
debility weakness, incapacity
Hiatus interruption, pause
languid tired, slow
poised calm,collected, self-possessed
resplendent c=shining, glowing
therapeutic medicinal, curative
acuity sharmness
braggart someone who boasts
debunking exposing flase claims or myths
epitomized typified, characterized, personified
languish decay, fade away, get weaker
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