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Lesson 45 AP English
Lesson 45
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Appreciate | To increase in value |
| Bigot | One who is utterly intolerant of any belief |
| Chaff | Worthless matter |
| Cliche | Overworked expression |
| Couple | To join or to link together |
| Discretion | To act on one's own power of individual decision |
| Emollient | Something that soothes |
| Fatalistic | Belief that evens are predetermined |
| Gamely | In a positive and spirited approach to a task |
| Idiosyncrasy | Characteristic habit particular to an individual |
| Ignominy | Dishonorable conduct |
| Indices | Plural of index, guides |
| Infidel | A person who has no religious faith |
| Malinger | To pretend illness to avoid work or duty |
| Motley | Exhibiting great diversity of elements |
| Ossify | to change or to harden into bone |
| Pestilence | A deadly epidemic disease |
| Preciosity | Meticulousness |
| Scurry | To hurry about, to scamper |
| Sophomoric | Immature |
| Surly | Churlishly rude, hostile |
| Transgression | Violation of law, sin |
| Vent | To giver utterance to |
| Verify | To prove the truth of |
| Wheedle | Convice by flattery, to coax |