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Vocab list two.
Ap lang Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acrimonious | Sharp, bitter, corrosive, servere, sarcastic speech. |
| Ameliorate | To make better, to improve. |
| Assuage | To lessen, pacify, satisfy, to abate or subside |
| Banal | Commonplace, trivial |
| Chary | Careful, cautious, shy, frugal or stingy |
| Embryonic | In the early stage, undeveloped |
| Enigma | A perplexing statement, riddle |
| Erudite | Having extensive knowledge, a learned person |
| Inexorable | That which cannot be moved by persuassion, immovable. |
| Intrepid | Fearless, brave, bold |
| Inveterate | Deep rooted, settle in habit, practice |
| Laconic | concise phrase, expressing much is few words |
| Loquacious | Talkative |
| Obeisance | A gesture of respect or reverence (bow or curtsy) deference |
| Obsequious | excessive willingness to obey, devoted, dutiful |
| Pedantic | Making a display of knowledge |
| Petulant | Impaitent, irritable, bad tempered. |
| Phlegmatic | Hard to rouse to action, sluggish |
| Proclivity | a natural tendency (toward something discreditable) |
| Prognasticate | to predict, to foretell |
| Pugnacious | Disposed to flight, quarrelsome |
| Pulchritude | Physical beauty |
| Scrupulous | Careful of details, conscientiously honest |
| Trenchant | Keen, penetrating, forceful, vigorous, clear out, distinct |
| Vapid | tasteless, flavorless, flat, dull, lifeless, uninteresting |