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AP Lang Lesson 1&2
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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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 |