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ap lang vocab 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pedantry | nit-picking, hairsplitting, pettifoggery | His pedantry annoyed me because he corrected every tiny block placement. |
| acclamation | ovation, cheering, plaudits | I gave myself an acclamation when I finally finished the froglight farm. |
| imperturbable | unflappable, unexcitable, serene | Even when I punched it 10 times, the imperturbable zombie kept trying to break my door. |
| tyro | neophyte | I’m still a tyro with redstone, so my piston door doesn't work yet. |
| vituperative | abusive, scurrilous, insulting | The vituperative comment in the chat called my house ugly. |
| redolent | evocative, reminiscent, aromatic | The end is redolent of danger, filled with endermen and an impending sense of death. |
| chary | wary, skittish | I was chary about exploring the cave because I die too much. |
| dilettante | amateur, trifler | He was a dilettante player, trying out mining, pvp, redstone, and building but not actually getting good at any. |
| paroxysm | fit, seizure | I had a paroxysm of rage when someone shot me off my tower. |
| unremitting | constant, incessant, unrelenting | The unremitting rain in Minecraft kept mobs spawning every single day. |
| bucolic | Relating to the countryside | The bucolic village felt peaceful. |
| calumniate | defame, libel, slander | They tried to calumniate me by saying I supported animal cruelty even though I clearly didn't. |
| collusion | conspiracy, plot, connivance, cahoots | The server worked in collusion to kill the Ender Dragon. |
| vacillate | seesaw, fluctuate, oscillate | I often vacillate between doing my homework or playing Minecraft. |
| increment | accretion, gain | I mined one block at a time, increasing my # of diamonds in slow increments. |
| mandate | directive | I gave a mandate to all of my iron golems to kill themselves. |
| paltry | measly, meager, piddling, trivial | I only got a paltry amount of redstone after mining for hours. |
| peregrination | journey, wandering, odyssey | My peregrination across the server led me through a plethora of biomes. |
| refulgent | Shining, luminous | The refulgent froglights lit up my base beautifully. |
| shibboleth | catchphrase, password, slogan | saying 6-7 is a shibboleth |