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LTF #3
3rd 6 weeks PreAp Vocab List
| Question | Definition |
|---|---|
| ABSTRUSE | difficult to understand, recondite, concealed |
| AFFABLE | friendly, courteous, amiable |
| AUDACITY | excessive boldness, rashness, daring |
| CONTRITE | extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant |
| CREDULOUS | believing on slight evidence, gullible |
| DEPRAVITY | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act |
| DEPRECATE | to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval |
| DIDACTIC | instructive, designed to teach |
| DORMANT | inactive, sleeping |
| ENIGMATIC | mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling |
| ERUDITE | scholarly |
| EXOTIC | foreign, unfamiliar |
| FUSE | to mix or join (usually by melting) |
| IMMUTABLE | unchanging |
| INCORRIGIBLE | incapable of being reformed or improved |
| LOATHE | to detest |
| MITIGATE | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe |
| NULLIFY | to cause not to be in effect; to negate |
| PACIFISTIC | opposed to war ro use of force |
| PRETENTIOUS | making an extravagant outward show, self-important |
| PROLOGUE | introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action |
| RECANT | to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke |
| SERVILE | overly submissive |
| TREPIDATION | fear, trembling, agitation |
| VILIFY | to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against |