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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abstruse | (adj) profound; obsure; hard to understand; recondite |
| acolyte | (n) 1. an altar boy 2. attendant or yound assistant |
| acumen | (n) keen intelligence; sharp insight |
| adumbrate | (v) 1. to outline vaguely 2. to foreshadow; to suggest or intimate |
| agnostic | (n) a person who thinks it is impossible to know whether there is a GOd or an afterlife or anything beyond material phenomena |
| ambiguous | (adj) having two or more possible meanings; vague |
| astute | (adj) shrewd |
| benison | (n) a blessing |
| blasphemy | (n) irreverance; mocking abuse of God or anything regarded as sacred |
| celibate | (n) unmarried individual |
| chalice | (n) a cup; goblet |
| cherubic | (adj) angelic; chubby and rosy-sheeked like a child |
| consecrate | (v) to make holy; to devote or dedicate |
| delineate | (v) to describe; portray; draw or sketch out |
| desecrate | (v) to violate the sacredness of; to profane |
| diabolic | (adj) fiendishly wicked or cruel; like a devil |
| discerning | (adj) having keen insight; astute |
| equivocal | (adj) deliberately vague or ambiguous |
| espouse | (v) to marry; to support or advocate |
| esoteric | (adj) understood by only a chosen few |
| ethereal | (adj) not earthly, heavenly; very light; airy, delicate |
| fetish | (n) anything held in unreasoning devotion |
| hallow | (v) to make or regard as holy; to consecrate |
| heresy | (n) any opinion opposed to established views or doctrines esp. religious beliefs |
| homily | (n) a sermon |
| impious | (adj) irreverent |
| imponderable | (adj) incapable of being weighed or measured |
| ineffalbe | (adj) too overwhelming or sacred to be expressed, described, or uttered |
| inscrutable | (adj) incomprehensible; mysterious; enigmatic |
| laity | (n) all the people not belonging to any particular profession, but esp. said of the non-clergy; laymen collectively |
| mesmerize | (v) to hypnotize |
| mundane | (adj) bound to the world; characerized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary, as opposed to heavenly or spiritual concerns |
| nebulous | (adj) clouby; unclear; vague; indefinite |
| necromancy | (n) black nagiv, sometimes involving communication with the dead |
| nuptial | (adj) relating to marriage or a wedding |
| omniscient | (adj) all-knowing |
| paradox | (n) a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but may be true |
| perspicacious | (adj) acute; discerning; keen |
| prelude | (n) an introduction, esp. in music |
| proselyte | (n) a convert, usually from one religion to another |
| recondite | (adj) beyond the understanding of the average person; abstruse |
| sacerdotal | (adj) of or pertaining to priests or the preisthood |
| sacrilegious | (adj) disrespectful of things held sacred; irreverent |
| sagacity | (n) penetrating intelligence and sound judgement |
| sancimonious | (adj) pretending to be very pious; hypocritical |
| sanctity | (n) holiness; sacredness; inviolability |
| secular | (adj) not connected with a church or religion; of the world; temporal |
| talisman | (n) a magic charm |
| temporal | (adj) 1. temporary; transitory 2. or this world; worldly |
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