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AP Vocab 11-20
Vocabulary words from lessons 11-20
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| aberation | a departure from the usual course; a deviation; an abnormal development |
| adjudge | to decree or decide by law; to pass sentence |
| candor | openness; saying what one really thinks; frankness; impartiality |
| corroborate | to support or strengthen an idea or a statement; to attest to the truth of; to confirm |
| dearth | a scarcity, as of food; a lack; too small a supply of something |
| diurnal | occurring everyday; daily; occurring during the daytime |
| herculean | extremely demanding or difficult; requiring or having great courage or strength, like possessed by Hercules |
| ludicrous | amusingly absurd; ridiculous |
| retrospect | a contemplation or survey of things that happened in the past |
| salient | standing out; easily seen or noticed; conspicuous; noticeable; prominent |
| artifices | a skill; a clever device; a sly or artful trick; trickery |
| scrupulous | giving strict attention to what is right or proper; exact and careful |
| chicanery | the use of clever talk or trickery to deceive or evade |
| deduce | to infer by reasoning; to conclude from known facts and principles |
| refute | to prove that someone or something is false or incorrect |
| captivates | to catch the attention of, by beauty or excellence; to enchant; to charm; to attract |
| configuration | the position of parts or elements of something; a shape; an outline |
| extant | still in existence; not extinct, lost, or destroyed |
| proponent | a person who supports a cause or idea; someone who makes a proposition; an advocate |
| augury | the practice of foretelling the future from signs and omens; an omen or a sign |
| patrimony | An inheritance from one's father or ancestors; any heritage or legacy |
| connoisseur | someone who is an expert in some field, especially in art or in matters of taste |
| punctilious | paying attention to the fine details of etiquette; meticulous; scrupulous; very exact |
| precocious | showing unusually early development; mature or advanced for one's age |
| germane | pertinent; to the point; truly relevant |
| foible | a minor weakness or fault; a minor but persistent personal failing; a shortcoming |
| exhilaration | high spirits; invigoration; excitement |
| gregarious | outgoing; sociable |
| civility | politeness; courtesy; a polite action |
| obsequious | too ready to please, praise, or obey; servile; fawning |
| effusion | Pouring forth; Unrestrained expression of feeling in talking or writing |
| propitious | Favorable; Favorably inclined |
| indulgent | Very lenient; Not strict enough; Making allowances |
| affront | An open, intentional insult; To offend |
| magnanimous | Noble in spirit; Generous in forgiving; Unselfish; Rising above petty, mean concerns |
| querulous | Complaining; Faultfinding; Peevish |
| guffaw | A loud or coarse burst of laughter; A horse laugh |
| incarceration | To imprison; to confine |
| capitulated | To surrender on certain terms; To give up; To yield; To stop resisting |
| munificent | Extremely generous; Very liberal and lavish in giving |
| inscrutable | mysterious or obscure; hard to grasp; not easily understood |
| primordial | from earliest times; primitive; fundamental; original |
| inundated | to cover by overflowing; to flood; to overwhelm (as if by a flood) |
| homogeneous | of the same kind or nature; composed of similar or identical parts or elements; uniform |
| sumptuous | costly; magnificent; luxurious; lavish |
| illicit | forbidden by law; improper; unauthorized |
| abeyance | a temporary suspension of an activity; a state of being put aside for future action |
| discrepancies | an inconsistency; a contradiction; a difference |
| perfidious | deliberately faithless; treacherous |
| pervaded | to extend all over; to spread or be diffused throughout |
| demagogue | leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions; a rabble-rouser |
| harbinger | To announce, to indicate what will follow. A forerunner; a herald, a precursor. |
| emanating | To issue from, to originate from. |
| deplore | To feel very sorry about, to regret deeply to lament, to disapprove of. |
| obnoxious | Very disagreeable, highly offensive, hateful. |
| detriment | Damage, harm, injury, anything that causes damage or injury. |
| chastised | To punish, to criticize severely, to scold. |
| intercede | To plead or petition on another's behalf, to act as a mediator in a dispute. |
| prevaricated | To tell a lie, to evade the truth. |
| irrevocable | Not capable of being retracted, recalled, or withdrawn; unalterable. |
| commodious | roomy; spacious |
| rampant | growing without check or restraint; flourishing; widespread |
| cajoled | to persuade by pleasant words; to coax with flattery and insincere talk; to wheedle |
| anarchy | the absence of government or law; political disorder |
| menial | of or suited to a servant; servile; n. a domestic servant; a servile person |
| pestilence | a contagious and often fatal disease that spreads rapidly; an illness of epidemic proportions; a destructive or evil influence or factor |
| impair | to make worse; to damage or weaken |
| extricate | to release from an entanglement or a difficulty; to set free |
| ethnology | the branch of anthropology that deals with recent societies or language groups, their distribution, characteristics, and cultures |
| nadir | the point in the celestial sphere directly below the observer and opposite the zenith; the lowest point possible |
| cadaverous | corpselike; pale and ghastlly; thin; and gaunt; haggard |
| maim | to wound or injure seriously; to disable in some way; to mutilate; to cripple |
| elocution | the art of publicly speaking; a style or manner of public speaking or reading |
| virulent | verypoisonous or harmful; deadly; intensely bitter or spiteful |
| profuse | giving freely, extravegant; plentiful |
| consign | to deliver; to deliver as goods to be sold; to send; to hand over; to assign to an undesirable position or place |
| subversion | the overthrowing or undermining of something established, such as a government |
| incorrigible | a person who will not be reformed; inacapable of being corrected or reformed; persistently bad |
| strident | having or making a harsh sound; shrill |
| promulgation | to make known to the public, to declare; to make widespread |
| litigation | the carrying on of a lawsuit; a lawsuit |
| calumny | a false statement made to injure someone's reputation; slander |
| recant | to take back formally or publicly; to withdraw or retract an opinion expressed in the past |
| retaliate | to return an injury for an injury; to get even |
| propensity | a natural tendency or ability |
| repudiate | to completely reject; to disown; to refuse to accept |
| mollify | to soothe the temper of; to appease; to pacify |
| impassive | not feeling or showing emotion |
| sedentary | used to sitting much of the time; moving little and rarely; staying in one place |
| contingency | a possible happening; a chance event; something that depends on chance or uncertain conditions |
| hiatus | a space where something is missing; any break in continuity |
| fervid | giving off intense heat; impassioned, enthusiastic |
| clandestine | concealed, usually for a forbidden purpose; secret; covert |
| fomenting | to foster trouble, rebellion, or strife; to stir up; to incite |
| vindicate | to clear of suspicion or blame; to justify or support |
| reticent | reserved; reluctant, discreet |
| auspices | approval or support; patronage |
| vestige | a slight remnant; a trace of something that no longer exists; a minute quality |
| temerity | reckless boldness; reshness; foolhardiness |
| solicitous | showing concern or worry; anxiously concerned; eager |
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Mrs. Dodd--English
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