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Unit 14 Vocab

AP Lit

TermDefinition
Beatific Blissful; rendering or making blessed
Blandishment anything designed to flatter or coax; sweet talk, apple-polishing
Chicanery trickery, deceptive practices or tactics, double-dealing
Coup a highly successful stroke, masterstroke, tour de force, act, plan, stratagem, success; a sudden takeover of power or leadership
Febrile feverish; pertaining to or marked by fever; frenetic
Innate natural, inborn, inherent; built-in
Minutiae small or trivial details, trifling matters
Nostrum an alleged cure-all; a remedy or scheme of questionable effectiveness
Pariah one who is rejected by a social group or organization
Wizened dry, shrunken, and wrinkled (often as the result of aging)
Behemoth a creature of enormous size, power, or appearance
Cacophonous harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant
Consign to give over to anotherś care, charge, or control; to entrust, deliver; to set apart for a special use
Euphemism a mild or inoffensive expression used in place of a harsh or unpleasant one; a substitute
Gainsay to deny, contradict, convert; to dispute, oppose
Imminent about to happen, threatening
Loath unwilling, reluctant, disinclined
Manifest clear, evident to the eyes or mind; to show plainly, exhibit, evince; a list of cargo and/or passengers
Moratorium a suspension of activity; an official waiting period; an authorized period of delay
Visionary not practical; lacking in realism; having the nature of a fantasy or dream; one given to far-fetched ideas; a dreamer or seer characterized by vision or foresight
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