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Vocabulary 21
English AP Blake vocab
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| Rigidly committed to procedure or routine | Bureaucratic |
| Preventing something from accomplishing its purpose | Thwarting |
| Spiteful, vengeful, unforgiving | Vindictive |
| An injury done in return for injury | Reprisal |
| The act of accusing in return; opposing another charge | Recrimination |
| Fixed deeply and firmly; working into the grain or fiber; forming a part of the inmost being | Ingrained |
| Lawful, rightful; reasonable, justifiable | Legitimate |
| Place | Locus |
| A storage place for weapons and ammunition | Arsenal |
| Unimportant, trivial; narrow-minded; secondary in rank, minor | Petty |
| Vindictiveness, malice, rancor | Spitefulness |
| Poisonous; spiteful, mean | Venomous |
| An occurrence that can be perceived by the senses; a remarkable person or event (Like Mr. Blake) | Phenomenon |
| A signed opinion in which one or more justices disagree with the majority view | Dissenting |
| To issue from; to originate from | Emanating |
| Anxiety, fear, dread | Angst |
| Characterized by continuous change or activity | Dynamic |
| To get rid of something unwanted, delete, to sift through to obtain what is desirable | Winnow |
| Fear of foreigners | Xenophobia |
| Popular sentiment or opinion, voice of the people | Vox Populi |
| The complete work of an artist, composer, or writer | Oeuvre |
| A government ruled by a few powerful people | Oligarchy |
| To result, to happen finally | Eventuate |
| Not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds | Dissonant |
| Honesty, frankness | Candor |