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AP Lang vocab quiz
Lessons 1-6 'Words Are Important' (Incomplete)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cavil | To find fault unnecessarily, to detect petty flaws |
| contiguous | Neighbouring, adjacent, sharing a boundary |
| fruition | Enjoyment derived from use or possession |
| incursion | An aggressive raid/invasion |
| magnanimous | courageously noble in mind and heart, generous in forgiving |
| pariah | A social outcast |
| syllogism | Reasoning from the general to the specific |
| torpid | Deprived of the power of motion or feeling |
| urbane | Polite, refined |
| atrophied | elementary, earliest stages of development |
| bucolic | rustic, countryside characteristics |
| concomitant | occuring concurrently (at the same time) |
| dotage | A deteriortion of mental faculties; being senile |
| enjoin | To direct with authority |
| erstwhile | In the past, formerly |
| extenuate | To lessen the magnitude or seriousness |
| nicety | careful treatment, delicate feeling/character |
| preponderance | The greatest part/portion, influence |
| rescind | To make void, annul, cancel |
| rhapsody | excessive enthusiastic expression of feeling |
| tenet | An opinion, principle |
| aberration | A deviation from proper course, off track |
| acrimonious | Bitter/sharp in language, nasty behaviour |
| acumen | Quickness, accuracy |
| aegis | Protection, control, guidance |
| besetting | constantling troubling |
| brackish | distasteful, salty taste |
| callow | immature |
| captious | Arguement intended to confuse |
| compendious | containing all the essentials |
| complicity | involvement as an accomplice |
| cynosure | an object that's the focal point of attention/admiration |
| defalcation | Funds have been mishandled |
| endemic | native, prevalent in a particular region |
| extradite | to give up to legal authority, banish |
| forensic | having to do with law |
| fulminate | thunderous verbal attack, to explode |
| indenture | contract bindinga party for a specific term |
| vituperation | insulting/abusive language |
| chicanery | deception by trickery |
| circumlocution | roundabout speech/ writing, use of uneccesary words |
| condign | deserved, appropriate |
| desuetude | disuse |
| flaccid | lacking firmness, limp |
| maudlin | overly sentimental |
| peregrination | travel, journey, traverse |
| to postulate | to demand, assume |
| proclivity | predisposition, natural inclination |
| proscribe | forbid, condemn |
| redolent | suggestive, reminiscent |
| traduce | slander (humiliation/disgrace) |
| venal | bribbery |
| venial | excusable |
| chimera | illusion |
| complacent | contented to a fault |
| complaisant | accommodating |
| dissident | disagreeing |
| empirical | relying on experiment observations |
| encomium | a tribute |
| hirsute | hairy |
| intestate | dying without a will |
| lugubrious | mournful, gloomy |
| megalomaniac | phsycopathic obsession with grandiose/extravagant things/ actions. |
| solecism | violation of etiquette, grammatical mistake |
| soporific | a drug that induces sleep - hypnotic |
| styptic | a substance that stops bleeding |
| subversive | rebellious, destructive |
| turgid | overblown, excessively ornate |
| arrogate | to take claim for oneself without right |
| banal | commonplace, predictable |
| dereliction | abandonment, neglect |
| egregious | offensive |
| euphemism | an agreeable word used instead of pottentially offensive words |
| expletive | profane/ obscene term (blasphemy) |
| indemnify | to protect against damage, loss, injury - compensate |
| intransigent | uncompromising, unreasonable |
| lambent | flickering lightly, soft glow |
| macabre | suggesting the horror of death and decay - gruesome |
| mulct | fine, penalty |
| orthography | art/study of correct spelling |
| ostracize | to exclude from a group - shun |
| prolix | tediously prolonged, wordy |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name, pen name, alias |
| quintessence | pure, perfect embodiment of something |
| stertorous | heavy snoring, gasping sound, hoarsely breathing |
| viviparous | giving birth to live young which develop within the maternal body |
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