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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abrogate | (v) to abolish; repeal; annul; cancel |
| apposite | (adj) fitting; apt; appropriate; relevant |
| argot | (n) specialized vocabulary of a particular group; slang ; cant |
| bombastic | (adj) marked by a pretentiour; inflated use of language |
| bowdlerize | (v) to remove offensive portions of a book; expurgate |
| cant | (n) slang; argot |
| circumlocutory | (adj) wordy; roundabout in expression |
| cogent | (adj) strongly persuasive or convincing as an argument |
| compendium | (n) a summary: an abridgement |
| discursive | (adj) rambling; wandering from one topic to another |
| delete | (v) to take out of ( as from printed or written material); to cancel; expunge |
| doggerel | (n) trivial, usually bad poetry |
| eclogue | (n) a pastoral poem, usually a dialogue between shepherds |
| epithet | (n) 1. a word or phrase expressing some quality considered characteristic of a person or thing 2. an abusive word or phrase |
| etymology | (n) the study of the originis and developments of specific words |
| euphemism | (n) a less distasteful or offensive word or phrase substituted for one which might offend |
| expatiate | (v) to speak or write at great lengths |
| explicit | (adj) clearly expressed; definite |
| expunge | (v) to erase |
| expurgate | (v) to remove offensive (obscene, etc.) material from |
| extraneous | (adj) irrelevant |
| felicitous | (adj) appropriately expressed |
| garrulous | (adj) talkative; loquacious |
| germane | (adj) relevant |
| glib | (adj) done in a smooth easy fashion; fluent |
| histrionic | (adj) theatrical; overacting; artificial |
| inarticulate | (adj) unable to speak clearly or expressively |
| laconic | (adj) expressing much in few words; concise; terse; succint |
| loquacious | (adj) talkative |
| lucid | (adj) 1. clear; either transparent or understandable 2. sane; rational |
| misnomer | (n) a name or epithet wrongly applied |
| missive | (n) a letter |
| orthography | (n) correct spelling |
| paraphrase | (v) to reword |
| perspicuous | (adj) clear and therefore easily understood |
| philology | (n) study of language development |
| pithy | (adj) full of meaing; terse and cogent |
| plagiarism | (n) the act of taking ideas, words, etc. from another and passing them off as one's own |
| prolix | (adj) wordy; verbose or long-winded |
| pseudonym | (n) an author's pen name |
| redundant | (adj) 1. more than enough 2. wordy |
| relevant | (adj) on the subject; pertinent |
| sententious | (adj) 1. expressing much in few words; terse; pithy 2. full of ;or fond of using, maxims, proverbs, etc. often ponderously trite or pompously moralizing |
| shibboleth | (n) 1. password 2. slogan |
| succinct | (adj) concise; terse |
| taciturn | (adj) almost always silent; not liking to talk |
| tautological | (adj) needless repetition of an idea in a different word or phrase |
| terse | (adj) free of superfluous words; concise; succinct |
| verbose | (adj) wordy; prolix |
| vernacular | (n) the common everyday language or people of a particualr locality |
| voluble | (adj) talkative; glib; fluent |
Created by:
~Ash~
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