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Hamon1SemesterExam
First Semester Exam AP Lang III
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abide | to tolerate, wait patiently, or withstand. verb |
| abominable | unpleasant or disagreeable. adjective |
| aggrieved | wronged offended or injured. adjective. verb. moun |
| allusive | reference to somehting implied or inferred. adjective. adverb. noun |
| alteration | a change or modification. noun |
| ascribed | to credit or assign. verb |
| aspiration | strong desire or longing, a goal. act of breathing breath. noun |
| asunder | apart or widely separated. adverb. adjective |
| belaboring | to explain, worry about, or work at. to beat vigorously. verb |
| coherence | overall sense of understanding. noun |
| colloquial | involving or using conversation. adjective |
| complacency | a feeling of quiet pleasure or security. noun |
| condescending | showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority. adjective |
| constituent | serving to compose or make up a thing. adjective |
| delusive | misleading or deceptive. adjective |
| discord | lack or concord or harmony between persons. noun |
| discourse | conversation. noun |
| dissension | strong disagreement. noun |
| emphatic | using emphasis in speech or action. forceful or insistent. adjective |
| emulate | to try to equal or excel. verb. adjective |
| enterprises | a boldness or readiness in undertaking. ingenuity. noun |
| eradicate | to remove or destroy utterly. verb |
| erudite | characterized by great knowledge. adjective |
| exhortative | acting or intended to encourage, incite, or advise. adjective |
| extenuate | to underestimate, underrate, or make light of. verb |
| fawning | behaving affectionately. verb, noun, adjective |
| hardihood | audacity or impudence. noun |
| imminent | likely to occur at any moment. adjective |
| immunities | exemption from any natural or usual liability. noun |
| imperious | domineering in a haughty manner, dictatorial. adjective |
| inconceivable | unbeleivable. adjective |
| inequities | favoritism or bias. adjective |
| inevitable | sure to occur. adjective, noun |
| inferred | to guess, speculate, or surmise. verb |
| insidious | stealthily treacherous or deceitful. adjective |
| invective | vehement or violent denunciation. noun adjective |
| invoke | to call on as in prayer or supplication. verb |
| lamentable | regrettable or unfortunate. adjective |
| lexicographers | a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary. noun |
| naught | lost or ruined. noun adjective |
| odious | deserving or causing hatred. adjective |
| oligarch | member of a small governing faction. noun |
| omnipotent | almightlyy or infinite power. adjective noun |
| pedantic | overly concerned in minute details or formalisms especially in teaching. adjective |
| pejorative | having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force. adjective |
| perspective | the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship. noun adjective |
| posterity | all descendants of one person. noun |
| preamble | an introductory statement. noun |
| preclude | to make impossible. verb |
| prescribed | to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin. verb |
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