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AP English 1st Tri
words for AP English 1st Trimester
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fatalist | Someone who believes that future events are already determined and humans are powerless to change them |
| chicanery | Trickery, deceitfulness, especially legal or political |
| nihilism | the belief that there are no values or morals in the universe |
| delinate | to describe accuratly |
| sedition | the incitement of public disorder or rebellion |
| incandescent | brilliant; giving off heat or light |
| penchant | a strong taste or liking for something; a predelection |
| inaugurate | to begin officially |
| benefactor | one who provides help especially in the form of gift or donation |
| remonstrate | to argue against; to raise objections |
| latent | present but not visible or apparent |
| adroit | skillful, dexterous, socially at ease |
| aesthetic | having to do with artistic beauty |
| elliptical | missing a word or words |
| adulation | wild or excessive admiration |
| chastise | to inflict punishment on |
| chasm | a deep gaping hole |
| elusive | hard to pin down |
| chimera | an illusion; a foolish fancy |
| adverse | unfavorable, antagonistic |
| pedestrian | unimaginative; banal |
| pejorative | negative; disparaging |
| oblique | indirect |
| truthfulness | veracity |
| deleterious | harmful |
| acquiesce | to comply passivly |
| acrid | harsh like acid |
| acrimonious | full of spite; bitter |
| acumen | keenness of judgeent |
| belittle | to put someone down |
| belligerent | combative, quarrelsome |
| categorical | unconditional; absolute |
| catharsis | purification that brings emotional relief |
| censure | to condemn severely for doing something |
| defame | to libel or slander to ruin the good name of |
| deference | submission to another's will |
| effusion | a pouring forth |
| egalitarian | believing in the social and economic equality of all peopel |
| egocentric | believing that one is the center of everything |
| impetuous | impulsive; extremely impatient |
| implement | to carry out |
| impotent | powerless; helpless |
| manifesto | a piblic declaration of beliefs or principles, usually political one |
| patriarch | a person of nobel birth |
| paucity | scarcity |
| refute | to prove to be false |
| reiterate | to say again |
| relegate | to banish |
| scintillate | to sparkle |
| scrupulous | strict; hesitant for ethical reasons |
| abstinent | voluntarily not doing something that may affect one's reputation |
| abstract | theoretical; impersonal |
| acerbic | bitter; sour ;severe |
| abysmal | extremely hopeless or wretched |
| accolade | an award |
| accost | to approach and speak to someone |
| caricature | a portrait of description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated |
| castigate | to criticize severely |
| catalyst | anyone or anything that makes something happen with our being derectly |
| deduce | to conclude from the evidence |
| impeccable | |
| fatalist | Someone who believes that future events are already determined and humans are powerless to change them |
| chicanery | Trickery, deceitfulness, especially legal or political |
| nihilism | the belief that there are no values or morals in the universe |
| delinate | to describe accuratly |
| sedition | the incitement of public disorder or rebellion |
| incandescent | brilliant; giving off heat or light |
| penchant | a strong taste or liking for something; a predelection |
| inaugurate | to begin officially |
| benefactor | one who provides help especially in the form of gift or donation |
| remonstrate | to argue against; to raise objections |
| latent | present but not visible or apparent |
| adroit | skillful, dexterous, socially at ease |
| aesthetic | having to do with artistic beauty |
| elliptical | missing a word or words |
| adulation | wild or excessive admiration |
| chastise | to inflict punishment on |
| chasm | a deep gaping hole |
| elusive | hard to pin down |
| chimera | an illusion; a foolish fancy |
| adverse | unfavorable, antagonistic |
| pedestrian | unimaginative; banal |
| pejorative | negative; disparaging |
| oblique | indirect |
| truthfulness | veracity |
| deleterious | harmful |
| acquiesce | to comply passivly |
| acrid | harsh like acid |
| acrimonious | full of spite; bitter |
| acumen | keenness of judgeent |
| belittle | to put someone down |
| belligerent | combative, quarrelsome |
| categorical | unconditional; absolute |
| catharsis | purification that brings emotional relief |
| censure | to condemn severely for doing something |
| defame | to libel or slander to ruin the good name of |
| deference | submission to another's will |
| effusion | a pouring forth |
| egalitarian | believing in the social and economic equality of all peopel |
| egocentric | believing that one is the center of everything |
| impetuous | impulsive; extremely impatient |
| implement | to carry out |
| impotent | powerless; helpless |
| manifesto | a piblic declaration of beliefs or principles, usually political one |
| patriarch | a person of nobel birth |
| paucity | scarcity |
| refute | to prove to be false |
| reiterate | to say again |
| relegate | to banish |
| scintillate | to sparkle |
| scrupulous | strict; hesitant for ethical reasons |
| abstinent | voluntarily not doing something that may affect one's reputation |
| abstract | theoretical; impersonal |
| acerbic | bitter; sour ;severe |
| abysmal | extremely hopeless or wretched |
| accolade | an award |
| accost | to approach and speak to someone |
| caricature | a portrait of description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated |
| castigate | to criticize severely |
| catalyst | anyone or anything that makes something happen with our being derectly |
| deduce | to conclude from the evidence |
| impeccable | flawless; entirely above reproach |
| imperial | like an emperor or an empire |
| impervious | not allowing anything to pass through |
| patent | obvious |
| paternal | fatherly |
| pathology | the science of diseases |
| recondite | hard to understand |
| recrimination | a beitter couteraccusation |
| redolect | fragrant |
| redundant | unnecessarily repetitive |
| sanquine | cheerful; optimistic |
| sardonic | mocking; scornful |
| tantamount | equivalent to |
| venerate | to revere; to treat as holy, especially something with age |
| wistful | yearning, sadly longing |
| acute | sharp; shrewd |
| adherent | follower |
| adament | stubborn; unyeilding |
| admonish | to scold gently; to warn |
| bemused | condised; bewildered |
| cerebral | brainy; intellectually refined |
| chagrin | humiliation; embarressed disappointment |
| charism | magical- seeming ability to attract followers |
| charlatan | fraud |
| definative | conclusive; providing the last word |
| degenerate | to break down |
| egregious | extremely bad; flagrant |
| elicit | to bring out |
| fastidious | meticulous; demanding |
| impugn | to attack the truth or integrity of somthing |
| inane | silly; senseless |
| largess | the generous giving of gifts |
| marshal | to arrange in order; to gather together for the purpose of doing something |
| patrician | a person of noble birth |
| patronize | to treat as inferior |
| pedantic | boringly scholarly or academic |
| querulous | complaining; grumbleing |
| relinquish | to release or let go of |
| scrutinize | to examine very carfully |
| secular | having nothing to do with religious or spiritual concerns |
| abnegate | to deny oneself things; to reject |
| abortive | unsuccessful |
| beleaguer | to surroind;to besiege |
| candor | truthfulness; sincere honesty |
| decadent | deterioration in the term of morals |
| decimate | to kill or destroy |
| edify | to enlighten; to instruct, especially in moral or religious matters |
| farcical | absurd; ludicrous |
| gesticulate | to make gestures; especially when speaking or in p;ace of speaking |
| hedonism | the pursuit of pleasures as a way of life |
| illicit | illegal; not permitted |
| languish | to become weak; listless |
| malleable | easy to shape or bend |
| mandate | a command or authorization |
| neologism | a new word or phrase; a new usage of a word |
| nepotism | showing favoritism to friends or family in business or politics |
| panecea | so,ething taht cures everything |
| paradigm | a model or example |
| paradox | a true statement or phenomenon that nonetheless seems to contradict itself |
| rebut | to contradict; to argue in opposition of |
| recalcitrant | stubbornly defiant of authority or control |
| salient | sticking out; conspicuous; leaping |
| tangetial | only superficially related to the matter on hand; peripheral |
| vapid | without liveliness; dull; spirtless |
| wanton | malicious; unjustifiable; unprovoked; egregious |
| aberration | something not typical |
| abhor | to hate very much; to detest |
| bastion | stronghold; fortified place |
| beget | to give birth to; to lead to; to cause |
| cadence | rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds |
| debacle | a violent breakdown; sudden overthrow |
| eccentric | not conventional; irregular |
| genre | a type or category |
| hackneyed | overused, trite; stale |
| ideology | a system of social or political ideas |
| juxtapose | to place side by side |
| lament | to mourn |
| magnate | a rich powerful or very successful businessman |
| malaise | a feeling of depression, uneasiness, or queasiness |
| nebulous | vague; hazy; indistinct |
| obdurate | stubborn and insensitive |
| painstaking | extremely careful; with great attention to detail |
| palliate | to relieve or alleviate something without getting rid of the problem; to assuage |
| rancor | bitter, long lasting ill will or hatred |
| rapacious | greedy, plundering, avaricious |
| sacrilege | a violation of something sacred |
| taciturn | talkative by nature |
| ubiquitous | being everywhere at the same time |
| vacillate | to be indecisive; to waver |
| zealous | enthusiastically devoted to something; fervent |
| labyrinth | a maze |
| cacophony | harsh sounding mixture of words, sounds, or voices |
| bane | poison, torment, cause of harm |
| facetious | humorous; not serious |
| garrulous | talkative; chatty |
| banal | unoriginal; ordinary |
| qualify | to modify or restirct |
| abate | to subside |
| narcissism | excessive love of one's body or oneself |
| abdicate | to step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| ramification | a consequence |
| iconoclast | one who attacks popular beliefs or institutions |
| magnanimous | forgiving; gracious; noble in spirit |
| ebullient | boiling; bubbling with excitement |
| daunt | to make fearful |
| facile | fluent; skillful in a superficial way |
| dearth | lack; scarcity |
| abash | to make ashamed; to embarrass |
| tacit | implied; not spoken |
| judicious | exercising sound judgment |
| machination | scheming activity for an evil purpose |
| saccharine | sweet; excessively or disgustingly sweet; 1984 |
| laconic | using few words, to the point of seeming rude |
| pacify | to calm someone down; to placate |
| fabrication | a lie |
| harbinger | a forerunner, a signal of |
| paltry | in significant; worthless |
| faction | a group; usually a small part of a larger group |
| belabor | to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent |
| cajole | to persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to |
| debilitate | to weaken; to cripple |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity; an eccentricity |
| lampoon | to satirize; to mock; to parody |
| abject | hopeless; extremely sad and servile; desperate |
| sagacious | discerning; shrewd; keen in judgement |
| eclectic | choosing the best from many sources |
| ignominy | deep disgreace |
| kinetic | having to do with motion |
| hapless | unlucky |
| obfuscate | to darken; to confuse |
| malefeasance | an illegal act, especially by a public official |
| idyllic | charming in a rustic way; naturally peaceful |
| qualitative | having to with quality of something |
| debauchery | wild living; excessive intemperance |
| genteel | refined; polite |
| palpable | capable of being touched; obvious; tangible |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked |
| malinger | to pretend to be sick to avoid work |
| callow | immature |
| abridge | to shorten; to condense |
| absolute | total ;unlimited |
| absolve | to forgive or free from blame |
| belie | to give galse impression of |
| capitulate | to surrender |
| capricious | unpredictable; likely to change at any moment |
| decorous | proper; in good taste |
| efface | to erase; to rub away the features of |
| imminent | just about to happen |
| immutable | unchangable |
| impartial | not favoring one side or the other |
| manifest | visible |
| parody | a satirical situation |
| parsimonious | stingy |
| partisan | one who supports a particular person, cause, or idea |
| recant | to publicly take back |
| reciprocal | mutual; interchangeable |
| salutary | healthful; curative |
| sanctimonious | pretending to be religious or devout |
| tangible | touchable; palpable |
| unconscionable | not controlled by conscience |
| vehement | intense; forceful |
| venal | capable of being bribed |
| willful | deliberate; intent on having one's way |
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