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AP Lit. Vocab 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Relating to or involving general ideas or qualities rather than specific people, objects, or actions; not concrete |
| Aggrandizement | Making something appear great or greater; praising highly |
| Animosity | A strong feeling of dislike or hatred |
| Arduous | Very difficult |
| Autonomy | Existing or acting apart from others; self-governing |
| Bovine | Relating to cows; looking or acting like a cow |
| Catalyst | A person or thing acting as the stimulus in bringing about a result |
| Circumspect | Thinking carefully about possible risks before doing or saying something |
| Contentious | Likely to cause people to argue or disagree; involving a lot of arguing |
| Dearth | A shortage, scarcity, or inadequate supply |
| Deprecate | To criticize or express disapproval of something or someone |
| Didactic | Designed or intended to teach people something, sometimes in an annoying or unwanted way |
| Disposition | The usual attitude or mood of a person or animal; the tendency to act or think in a particular way |
| Eclectic | Including things taken from many different sources |
| Endemic | Growing or existing in a certain place or region; common in a particular area or field |
| Eulogy | A speech that praises someone who has died |
| Expunge | To remove something completely |
| Flagrant | Very bad; too bad to be ignored |
| Garbled | To be unclear or confusing |
| Hegemony | The social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group; influence or control over another country or group of people |
| Immenant | Happening very soon; ready to take place |
| Impugn | To criticize (a person's character, intentions, etc.) by suggesting that someone is not honest and should not to be trusted |
| Inert | Unable to move; moving or acting very slowly |
| Insurgent | Rising in opposition to civil authority or established leadership |
| Kinetic | Of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated with it |
| Loquacious | Liking to talk and talking smoothly and easily; given to fluent or excessive talk |
| Meticulous | Marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details |
| Nefarious | Evil or immoral |
| Opulent | Very comfortable and expensive; very wealthy |
| Peerless | Having no equal; better than all others |
| Placate | To stop someone from being angry; to appease; to pacify |
| Predilection | A natural liking for something; a tendency to do or to be attracted to something |
| Proselytize | To try to persuade people to join a religion, cause, or group |
| Raze | To tear down completely; level to the ground |
| Renaissance | A situation or period of time when there is a new interest in something that has not been popular in a long time; a period of new growth or activity |
| Reticent | Restrained in expression, presentation, or appearance; not willing to tell people about things |
| Savory | Having a pleasant taste or smell; morally good |
| Sordid | Very bad or dishonest; very dirty |
| Stultifying | Causing someone or something to be dull, slow, stupid, foolish, or illogical; causing impairedness, invalidation, or ineffectiveness |
| Surreptitious | Done in a secret way |
| Tenet | A belief or idea that is very important within a group |
| Turpitude | A very evil quality or way of behaving |
| Untenable | Incapable of being defended against attack or criticism |
| Viable | Capable of being done or used; capable of succeeding |
| Volatile | Likely to change in a very sudden or extreme way; having or showing extreme or sudden changes of emotion; likely to become dangerous or out of control |
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