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AP vocab list 4
with reoccuring words and new words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to | ad |
| man (human) | anthrop |
| water | aqua |
| government | arch |
| always | ard |
| over | super |
| together | syn |
| together | sym |
| three | tri |
| not | un |
| anecdote | a short account of an interesting or funny event |
| substantiate | to provide evidence to support in truth of something |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength; flimsy; not substantial |
| abominate | to hate intensely; despise |
| circuitous | not direct; roundabout |
| commiserate | to express or feel sympathy or pity for |
| expedite | to speed something up; to make something happen sooner |
| proclivity | a natural tendency or habit towards something |
| vitriolic | filled with bitter criticism or malice |
| wheedle | to use flattery in order to persuade someone to do something |
| nominal | existing or being something in name only; titutual |
| verbose | expressed in more words than are neeeded; wordy |
| belie | to fail to give a true notion or impression of something; to contradict |
| fortify | to strengthen |
| elegiac | expressing sorrow or lamentation (tone) |
| erudite | characterized by great knowledge; learned (tone) |
| exhortatory | urging (tone) |
| facetious | sarcastic (tone) |
| familiar | informal (tone) |
| fatalistic | accepting events as inevitable (tone) |
| flippant | lacking in seriousness (tone) |
| gleeful | full of joy (tone) |
| haughty | disdainfully proud; snobbish (tone) |
| histrionic | overly emotional (tone) |
| epitome | a person or thing that is a perfect example of something (reoccuring) |
| permeate | to spread throughout something (reoccuring) |
| surmise | to assume that it is true without having the evidence to confirm it (reoccuring) |
| elicit | to call forth (reoccurring) |
| meritorious | deserving reward (reoccuring) |
| transcend | to rise above (reoccuring) |
| rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing (reoccuring) |
| manifold | many; numerous (reoccurring) |
| metamorphosis | a COMPLETE change (reoccurring) |
| moralistic | overly concerned with morality, especially in making moral judgements about the behavior of others |