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AP lang. exam
Academic Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aspiration | 1. strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition 2. articulation accompanied by an audible puff of breath, as in the h-sound of how, or in the release of initial stops, as in the k-sound of key |
| Abide | 1. to remain; continue; stay 2. to continue in a particular condition, attitude, relationship, etc. |
| Abominable | 1. repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome |
| Aggrieved | 1. wronged, offended, or troubled 2. deprived of legal rights or claims (law) |
| Allusive | 1. having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusion |
| Alteration | 1. a change; modification or adjustment |
| Ascribed | 1. to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute 2. to attribute or think of as belonging, as a quality or characteristic |
| Asunder | 1. apart or widely separated |
| Belaboring | 1. to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary |
| Coherence | 1. logical interconnection; overall sense or understandability |
| Colloquial | 1. characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal |
| Complacency | 1. a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc |
| Condescending | 1. showing or implying a usually patronizing descent from dignity or superiority |
| Constituent | 1. serving to compose or make up a thing; component |
| Delusive | 1. tending to delude; misleading; deceptive |
| Discord | 1. lack of concord or harmony between persons or things 2. disagreement; difference of opinion |
| Discourse | 1. communication of thought by words; talk; conversation 2. any unit of connected speech or writing longer than a sentence |
| Dissension | 1. strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord |
| Emphatic | 1. uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive |
| Emulate | 1. to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass |
| Enterprises | 1. a project undertaken or to be undertaken, esp. one that is important or difficult or that requires boldness or energy 2. boldness or readiness in undertaking; adventurous spirit; ingenuity |
| Eradicate | 1. to remove or destroy utterly; extirpate |
| Erudite | 1. characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly |
| Exhortative | 1. serving or intended to exhort 2. Acting or intended to encourage, incite, or advise |
| Extenuate | 1. to represent (a fault, offense, etc.) as less serious |
| Fawning | 1. To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious behavior |
| Hardihood | 1. boldness or daring; courage |
| Imminent | 1. likely to occur at any moment; impending |
| Immunities | 1. the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like |
| Imperious | 1. domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing |
| Inconceivable | 1. not conceivable; unimaginable; unthinkable |
| Inequities | 1. an unfair circumstance or proceeding |
| Inevitable | 1. unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary |
| Inferred | 1. to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence |
| Insidious | 1. intended to entrap or beguile 2. stealthily treacherous or deceitful |
| Invective | 1. an insulting or abusive word or expression |
| Invoke | 1. to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for |
| Lamentable | 1. that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate |
| Lexicographers | 1. a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary |
| Naught | 1. to come to nothing; be without result or fruition; fail |
| Odious | 1. deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable |
| Oligarch | 1. one of the rulers in an oligarchy |
| Omnipotent | 1. almighty or infinite in power, as God |
| Pedantic | 1. overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching |
| Pejorative | 1. having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force |
| Perspective | 1. the state of one's ideas, the facts known to one, etc., in having a meaningful interrelationship |
| Posterity | 1. succeeding or future generations collectively |
| Preamble | 1. an introductory statement; preface; introduction |
| Preclude | 1. to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible |
| Prescribed | 1. to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin |
| Refutations | 1. an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof |
| Remonstrated | 1. to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval |
| Salvage | 1. the act of saving anything from fire, danger, etc |
| Subjugation | 1. to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master |
| Subsiding | 1. to sink to a low or lower level |
| Subterfuge | 1. an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc |
| Subversion | 1. the downfall, ruin, or destruction of |
| Supplications | 1. pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition. |
| Temper | 1. a particular state of mind or feelings 2. to soften or tone down |
| Tribulation | 1. grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering |
| Unprecendented | 1. without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled |
| Vehement | 1. zealous; ardent; impassioned |
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