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Lesson 32 AP English
Lesson 32
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Amenity | agreeable ways or manners; quality of being agreeable or pleasent |
| Anathema | vigorous denunciation; one who is intensly disliked |
| Atypical | unusual or abnormal; odd |
| Balky | refusing to proceed in an expected direction |
| Bourgeois | middle class |
| Concert | agreement in purpose or feeling; consensus |
| Confluence | a coming together |
| Corpulence | state of being very fat |
| Dirge | funeral hymn |
| Disconcerting | upsetting, frustrating |
| Endemic | peculiar to or a trait of a group or area |
| Focus | to concentrate |
| Hilarity | boisterous merriment |
| Indict | to charge |
| Latent | not visible, dormant |
| Monumental | massive, very important |
| Myriad | a very large and indefinite number |
| Oscillating | moving back and forth, swinging |
| Pithy | concise and meaningful |
| Premeditated | thought out beforehand |
| Presage | foreknowledge of the future; prediction |
| Quixotic | idealistic but impractical |
| Reserve | self-restraint |
| Stasis | motionlessness |
| Warranted | justified |