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Vocab Week 3
Ap English Vocab
Word | Defenition |
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anagram | a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase |
assertion | a decleration made emphatically the act of affirming or asserting or stating something |
coherent | sticking together - orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner |
fulminate | a salt or fulminic acid - cause to explode violently and with a loud noise - come on suddenly and intensely - criticize severly |
goad | a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something - a pointed instrument that is used to probe into a state of motion - to stab or urge with a pointed stick -prove with constant criticism - give heart or criticism to |
inexplicable | incapable of being explained or accounted for |
noncommittal | refusing to bind oneself to a particular course of action or view |
proboscis | a long flexible snout as of an elephant - the human nose |
quixotic | unrealistic - not sensible about practical matters |
surmise | a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence - to infer from incomplete evidence |
anecdote | short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) |
epilogue | a short passage added at the end of a literary work - a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play |
extemporaneous | with little or no preparation or forethought |
fidelity | accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal - the quality of being faithful |
forte | used chiefly as a direction or description in music - used as a direction in music - to be played relatively loudly the stronger part of a sword blade between the hilt and the foible - (music) with great loudness; an asset of special worth or utility |
gourmet | a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) |
hypochondriac | suffering from hypochondria - a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments |
prodigy | an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality - an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person - someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration - a sign of something about to happen |
stigma | a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease - an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod- the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil - a symbol of disgrace or infamy |
climactic | consisting of or causing a climax |