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Final vocab list
Final Vocab list AP lang
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accordant | Being in agreement or hormone; consonant |
| Albeit | Used to add information (Even though; even if; although) |
| Amorous | inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love |
| Analogous | Comparable in certain respects, corresponding in some fashion |
| Assail | To attack vigorously or violently; assault |
| Astute | Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; sagacious; clever; cunning |
| Auspicious | Promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable |
| Beget | To procreate or generate (offspring) |
| Bellicose | Inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious |
| Bereft | Deprived of somebody or something; to deprive ruthlessly or by force |
| Beseech | To request earnestly; to beg eagerly for; solicit |
| Brigand | A member of a gang, robber or a bandit |
| Capitulate | To surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms; to give up resistance |
| Cavil | To raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily |
| Chastening | Rebuke for making a mistake |
| Confound | Archaic; to bring ruin; to perplex or amaze |
| Copious | Large in quantity or number, abundant |
| Countenance | Appearance; a person's face or facial expression |
| Curate | Member of the clergy |
| Delusion | A false belief of opinion held in the face of evidence to the contrary |
| Deportment | Personal conduct; behavior |
| Deposition | The action of depositing something; removal from an office |
| Deprecating | To belittle; to urgent reasons against; protest against |
| Discursive | Digressing from subject to subject; rambling |
| Disdain | Extreme contempt or disgust for something or somebody; to treat with contempt |
| Dubious | Doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt |
| Ebullient | Overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited |
| Emissary | A person sent on a special mission or errand |
| Emulate | To try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass |
| Entourage | Group of attendants or associates, as of a person of rank or importance |
| Epigram | A concise, witty, or pointed remark that is tersely expressed |
| Errant | Deviating from the regular or proper cause; erring; straying |
| Etheral | Of or relation to the regions beyond the Earth; airy; light |
| Extol | To praise highly; laud; eulogize |
| Fatous | Foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner |
| Febrile | Pertaining to or marked by fever; feverish |
| Feign | To give a false appearance of; to represent falsly |
| Felicity | Intense happiness; the state of bliss |
| Gambol | To skip about in play, to leap about playfully; frolic |
| Garrison | A body of troops stationed in a fortified place |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters |
| Goad | A stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for prodding into motion |
| Gratis | WIthout charge cost or payment |
| Imperious | Domineering in a haughty manner; intensely compelling; urgent; dictatorial |
| Incendiary | (Of a device or attack) designed to cause fires |
| Incredulous | Skeptical, disinclined or indisposed to believe |
| Intercession | The act of pleading on somebody's behalf |
| Irksome | Annoying: irritating; exasperating; tiresome |
| Laconic | Using or involving the use of a minimum words |
| Languid | Lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow |
| Languor | Sluggish; a relaxed comfortable feeling |
| Lineaments | Features or details of a face, body, or figure |
| Magnanimous | Very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival |
| Morose | Gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood |
| Mutability | Prone to change, fickle, inconsistent |
| Nascent | Coming or having recently come into existence |
| Nonplused | To cause to be at a loss as what to say, think, or do; perplexed |
| Obliquely | Devious, misleading, or dishonest |
| Pernicious | Causing insidious harm or ruin |
| Pertinacity | The quality of being firm, decisive, and resolute |
| Plight | A dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation |
| Presage | Something that protends or foreshadows a future event |
| Prodigal | Wastefully or recklessly extravagant; lavish |
| Prolixity | Tiresome wordiness; tedious length |
| Proprietary | Pertaining to property or ownership |
| Quail | To give way; falter, to lose heart or courage in difficulty |
| Repartee | Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies |
| Resolute | A resolve or determination; a formal expression of opinion or intention made |
| Resplendent | Shining brilliantly; having great beauty or splendor |
| Salubrious | Favorable to or promoting health or well being |
| Sardonic | Scornfully or cynically joking; mocking; sneering |
| Scrupulous | Having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right |
| Sinecure | Office or position requiring little or no work |
| Transcendent | Going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding |
| Tumultous | Full of riotousness; marked by disturbance; raising a great clatter and commotion |
| Ubiquitous | Present, appearing, or found everywhere |
| Ultimatum | A final, uncompromising proposal or statement of condition |
| Venerable | Accorded a great deal of respect, especially because of age, wisdom, or character |
| Vigilant | Keenly watchful to detect danger; alert; wary |
| Glean | To collect or gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit |
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