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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aggregate | a group or tatal; to form into a mass or whole |
| askew | to one side; awry; crookedly |
| awry | 1. askew 2. amiss; wrong |
| careen | to lean sideways or tip over |
| chaos | great confusion or disorder |
| cleavage | a separation or a dividing |
| coalesce | to unite or merge |
| collaborate | to work together |
| commodious | spacious; roomy |
| concatenation | a linking or a connected series |
| concomitant | accompanying |
| conglomeration | mass of varied elements |
| contiguity | nearness or contact |
| desultory | random; unmethodical; disconnected |
| detergent | having cleansing power |
| dichotomy | a division into two parts |
| elicit | to draw forth; to evoke |
| emanate | to come forth |
| eschew | to keep away from (something harmful or bad); to avoid or shun |
| exude | to ooze out |
| fissure | a cleft or crack |
| gamut | the entire range or extent |
| immaculate | spotless |
| imbue | 1. to fill with moisture; saturate 2. to inspire |
| impromptu | without preparation |
| incipient | just beginning |
| intrinsic | basic; inherent |
| lacerate | to mangle or tear, as flesh |
| pandemonium | chaos; hell |
| periphery | the outside edge or boundary |
| permeate | to spread or diffuse throughout |
| pervade | to spread thoughout or to exist widely |
| presently | soon |
| promiscuous | undiscriminating, specif. engaging in many different sexual relationships indiscriminately |
| propinquity | nearnesss in time or place; relationship |
| protuberant | bulging out ; prominent |
| proximity | nearness |
| purge | to cleanse of impurities |
| roster | list of names; roll |
| rudimentary | basic or in the earliest stages of development |
| salient | 1. justting out 2. prominent; conspicuous |
| serried | packed together in rows |
| sever | to cut in two |
| slovenly | untidy because of not caring |
| sidle | to move sideways, as in a shy or stealthy manner |
| squalid | dirty or wretched |
| synchronize | to occur or to cause to occur at the same time or rate; to regulate |
| synthesis | the combintaion of parts to form a whole |
| transcend | to go beyond the limits of |
| ubiquitous | present everywhere; omnipresent |