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AP Lang Vocab #8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Manifest | to make clear or evident to the eye or the understanding |
| Ostentatious | characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others |
| Sanguine | cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident |
| Strident | having a shrill, irritating quality or character |
| Vehement | characterized by rancor or anger; marked by great energy; strongly emotional; intense or passionate |
| Elegiac | expressing sorrow or lamentation |
| Fecund | very productive or creative intellectually |
| Fortuitous | happening or produced by chance; accidental |
| Infirmity | a physical weakness or ailment; a moral weakness or failing |
| Malady | any disorder or disease of the body |
| Nuance | a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, and response |
| Profligate | utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated |
| Remonstrance | to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval |
| Scintillate | to sparkle; flash, to twinkle, as the stars |
| Vitiate | to impair or weaken the effectiveness of; to make legally defective or invalid |