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Lesson 31 AP English
Lesson 31
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alloy | mixture of metals |
| Altercation | heated or angry dispute |
| Blighted | destroyed or caused by decline or decay |
| Charismatic | having speacial qualities |
| Chary | careful, cautious |
| Convoke | to summon or call together |
| Despicable | very bad, contemptible |
| Embed | to enclose firmly in some mass |
| Embolden | to encourage one to be bold |
| Florid | flushed with color; flowery |
| Hiatus | gap, pause, interuption in time |
| Incurious | uninterested |
| Insubordination | disobedience to authority |
| Lassitude | feeling of weariness; fatigue |
| Montage | combination of elements that form a unified, single picture |
| Officious | overly dutiful |
| Premature | occuring earlier than normal |
| Presumptuous | arrogant; brazenly overstepping bounds |
| Relegate | to assign inferior position |
| Rescind | to cancel |
| Saturate | to soak |
| Sterile | incapable of reproducing |
| Tumultuous | marked by disturbance or uproar; great clatter or commotion |
| Unimpeachable | not to be called into question; blameless |
| Voracious | having a large appetite |