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AP Lang Lesson 1&2
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| camaraderie | goodwill |
| frangible | fragile |
| litany | any long, repetitive, or dull recital |
| moratorium | a suspension of activity |
| zealous | passionate |
| desiccate | to dry out |
| wrenching | causing mental or physical pain |
| replete | full; abundant |
| interminable | seemingly endless |
| arable | fertile |
| lugubrious | gloomy |
| truncate | to shorten |
| ubiquitous | omnipresent |
| vernacular | everyday language |
| equanimity | calmness |
| metamorphosis | a dramatic change or transformation |
| donnybrook | a fight |
| nonchalant | relaxed |
| vestige | a hint of something's existence |
| interlocutor | someone who participates in a conversation |
| procrustean | undiscriminating |
| stygian | dark and forbidding; shadowy |
| sophistry | a deliberately misleading argument |
| carte blanche | boundless authority |
| incantation | a chant |
| cosmopolitan | worldly |
| rife | abundant |
| nomenclature | terminology |
| brigand | a robber |
| contemptuous | arrogant |