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AP Lang Vocab set 1
See actual handout paper for examples for most words.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allocation | The act of setting apart for a purpose or specific plan, designate |
| Ascetic | A person who dedicated his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification |
| Beguile | To influence by trickery, flattery, ect.; mislead; delude; to take away from by cheating or deceiving |
| Crass | Without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid |
| Defray | To bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, ect.) |
| Dint | Force; power. A dent |
| Enjoin | To prescribe (A course of action) with authority or emphasis |
| Envoy | A diplomatic agent; any accredited messenger or representative |
| Interloper | To intrude into some region or field of trade without proper license; to thrust oneself into the affairs of others |
| Vicarious | Performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another. Taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute. Felt or enjoy through imagined participation in the experience of others. |
| Admonished | To caution, advise, or counsel against something; to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner |
| Akimbo | With hand on hip and elbow bent outward |
| Lassitude | Weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, ect.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor; a condition of indolent indifference |
| Licentious | Sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd; unrestrained by law or general mortality; lawless; immortal |
| Muse (verb and noun) | (Verb) to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject; (noun) any of a number of sister goddesses |