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AP World Lit. Vocab
Test 1 Vocab words for Mrs Roses class
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| appall | to fill with honor or dismay |
| denounce | to accuse publicly |
| despondent | filled with despondancy |
| explicit | clearly stated and leaving nothing implied |
| foreboding | a prediction portent, or presatiment especially of something bad or harmful |
| futile | that could not succeed |
| loathed | to feel intense dislike, digust, or hatred for |
| menace | a threat or the act of threatening |
| mortify | to punish(one's body) or control (one's physical desires and passion) as a means of religious or ascetic discipline |
| oblivion | a forgetting or having forgotten |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| reverberate | to reecho or resound |
| revile | to regard or treat as vile |
| surmise | an idea or opinion formed from evidence that is neither positive nor conclusive |
| swarthy | having a dark complexion |
| haughty | arrogant |