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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acerb | sour or bitter in taste, tone, or temper |
| affable | easy to approachand talk to; pleasant; polite |
| apt | 1. likely 2. fitting 3. skillful |
| avid | very greedy or eager |
| banter | teasing or joking |
| blithe | joyful; carefree |
| caper | to skip about in a playful manner; to leap or frolic |
| carouse | to participate in a lively drinking party |
| choreography | the art of arranging dance movements |
| convivial | festive; sociable |
| Coterie | social circle; clique |
| Decorum | whatever is suitable, proper, or in good taste in behavior, speech, dress, etc. |
| Doleful | sad |
| Dolorous | sad |
| Droll | amusing; humorously odd |
| Facetious | joking |
| Fain | glad; ready; with eagerness |
| Fatuous | complacently stupid; foolish |
| Gregarious | fond of the company of others; sociable |
| Hapless | unfortunate (said of the recipient of the bad luck, not of the unlucky event) |
| Harlequin | a comic character in pantomime who wears carigated tights; a clown |
| Hilarious | boisterously merry |
| Inane | silly |
| Jaunty | stylish; easy and carefree |
| Jocose | humorous; merry |
| Lachrymose | weeping; tearful |
| Lascivious | lustful; indecent; exciting lust |
| Levity | frivolity; improper gaiety |
| Licentious | morally unrestrained; lascivious; libertine |
| Ludicrous | laughable |
| Lugubrious | ridiculously excessive in mourning or grief |
| Ogle | to eye amorously, admiringly, provocatively, or enticingly |
| Penchant | a strong inclination or taste |
| Piquant | 1. agreeably pungent or sharp to the taste 2. exciting interest; stimulating |
| Poignant | sharply painful to the feelings; piercing |
| Predilection | a strong liking or partiality |
| Proclivity | a natural tendency or inclination |
| Propensity | an inclination or tendency; a bent |
| Raconteur | a skilled storyteller |
| Regale | to entertain |
| Ribald | indecent, coarse, or vulgar in language |
| Salacious | lecherous; lustful pornographic; obscene |
| Sanguine | 1. reddish; ruddy 2. cheerful; confident; optimistic |
| Saturnine | gloomy; reserved; grave |
| Seemly | suitable; becoming; proper |
| Sleazy | cheaply made; flimsy |
| Somber | dark and gloomy; depressed or depressing |
| Staid | sober; sedate; settled and steady |
| Uncouth | awkward and unsophisticated; sometimes to the extent of bing boorish or ill-mannered |
| Voracious | greedy in eating or other pursuits; rapacious |
| Wistful | showing or expressing vague yearnings or longings |
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~Ash~
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