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Gunnar Vocab List
This is the list of 178 words for Mr. Gunnar's AP 11 class.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acumen | (noun) quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight; perspicacity |
| adroit | (adj.) dexterous; skillful; clever in dealing with people or situations |
| ameliorate | (verb) to make or become better; improve |
| apathetic | feeling or showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent. |
| assent | to agree, as to a proposal; concur. |
| assuage | (verb) to make less severe or more bearable |
| audacious | unrestrained by convention or propriety; insolent. |
| augment | (verb) to make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity |
| benevolent | altruistic, kindhearted |
| berate | (verb) to rebuke or scold angrily and at length |
| blithe | happy, worry |
| brusque | abrupt, curt, blunt |
| callous | unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others |
| capitulate | (verb) to give up all resistance; acquiesce; assent |
| caustic | intense use of sarcasm, truculent, acerbic, biting |
| choleric | hot |
| colloquial | informal, conversational condescension (n); |
| condescending | a feeling of superiority |
| contemplative | studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue |
| contemptuous | showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect |
| contentious | quarrelsome; likely to generate disagreement |
| conventional | orthodox; lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality |
| cynical | questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people |
| deductive | type of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inferring by reasoning from the general to the specific |
| derisive | mocking, jeering |
| didactic | instructive, moralizing |
| disdain | (n) scorn |
| dogmatic | (N) authoritarian, dictatorial |
| dubious | doubtful, questionable |
| effusive | profuse, gushy |
| egregious | Conspicuously bad or offensive |
| elegiac | mourning, sorrowful: especially expressing sorrow for something past |
| elocution | (noun) the art of public speaking; oratory |
| ennui | (noun) listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom |
| ephemeral | short |
| epitomize | (verb) to serve as an example, image, or symbol of |
| equivocate | (verb) to use evasive or deliberately vague language |
| erudite | scholarly, learned |
| esoteric | (adj.) of or relating to that which is known by a restricted number of people |
| euphemistic | ambiguous, substituting a less offensive term for a blunt one |
| euphoric | elated, extremely happy |
| evasive | ambiguous, intentionally vague |
| exhort | (verb) To urge by strong, often stirring argument, admonition, advice, or appeal |
| facetious | playfully jocular, taking a serious subject lightheartedly |
| fastidious | (N) meticulous, punctilious |
| feasible | viable, practicable |
| fervent | ardent, extremely passionate |
| flippant | (N) pert, attempting to appear clever; disrespectful |
| formidable | inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder; causing or able to cause fear; difficult to surmount |
| forthright | straightforward |
| frenetic | frantic, frenzied |
| garrulous | loquacious, talkative, rambling |
| gauche | tacky, undiplomatic, lacking social grace |
| germane | relevant, apropos |
| gregarious | outgoing, extroverted |
| gullible | naïve, credulous |
| gushy | (N) maudlin, overly sentimental |
| haughty | scornfully and condescendingly proud; arrogant |
| hegemonic | (N) overly influential, controlling |
| heterodox | unorthodox, in conflict with accepted dogma |
| imminent | impending, looming |
| impeccable | flawless, perfect |
| impervious | incapable of being affected |
| imponderable | indiscernible, imperceptible |
| incendiary | inflammatory |
| inchoate | unshaped, unformed |
| incisive | trenchant, clear, sharp, |
| incredulous | skeptical, disbelieving |
| inculcate | (verb) indoctrinate, use repetition to teach, pound |
| indignant | choleric, angry |
| inductive | the process of deriving general principles from particular facts or instances |
| inflammatory | (N) arousing passion, anger |
| ingenious | innovative, original |
| ingenuous | (N) naive, artless |
| insidious | surreptitiously causing harm |
| insolent | (N) supercilious, disrespectful, |
| insular | parochial, narrow |
| interpolate | (verb) to insert new material into a conversation or text |
| intimate | very familiar, expert |
| intonation (noun) | A particular vocal quality that indicates some emotion or feeling |
| intrinsic | inherent, ingrained |
| jingoistic | (N) extreme patriotism, chauvinistic patriotism |
| jocund | lighthearted, mirthful, jovial |
| juxtaposition | (noun) Placement side by side, especially for comparison or contrast |
| laconic | terse, concise |
| laissez | faire |
| laudatory | commendatory, expressing praise |
| lethargic | apathetic, detached |
| lexicon | (noun) a stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary |
| limpid | clear, easily intelligible |
| loquacious | garrulous, talkative |
| maelstrom | (noun) a violent or turbulent situation |
| magnanimous | generous in forgiving; eschewing resentment or revenge; unselfish |
| malaise | (noun) a general sense of depression or unease |
| maledictory | slanderous; cursed |
| malevolent | malicious, vicious |
| malleable | able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable |
| mandate | (noun) a command or an authorization given by a political electorate to its representative. |
| melancholy | sad, pensive |
| mellifluous | flowing with sweetness or honey |
| mendacious | false, untrue |
| meticulous | fastidious, scrupulous |
| mettlesome | spirited and plucky |
| misandry | (noun) hatred of men |
| misogynistic | Of or characterized by a hatred of women |
| mitigate | (verb) to alleviate |
| mollify | (verb) to placate; temper |
| montage | (noun) A single pictorial composition made by juxtaposing or superimposing many pictures or designs |
| mores | (noun) the accepted traditional customs and attitudes of a particular social group |
| mundane | relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary |
| myopic | lack of discernment or long |
| nascent | coming into existence; emerging |
| nebulous | lacking definite form or limits; vague |
| neophyte | (noun) a beginner or novice |
| nomenclature | (noun) a system of names used in an art or science |
| noxious | (N) harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting |
| obdurate | (N) hardened against feeling; hardhearted |
| obfuscate | (verb) to make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand |
| obsequious | full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning |
| obstreperous | aggressively boisterous; stubbornly defiant |
| obviate | (verb) to prohibit from occurring by advance planning or action, render unnecessary |
| onerous | troublesome or oppressive; burdensome |
| ostentatious | pretentious |
| ostracize | (verb) to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc. |
| paginate | (verb) the system by which pages are numbered |
| palatable | acceptable or agreeable to the mind or sensibilities |
| palpable | easily perceived; obvious |
| parsimonious | ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money |
| pedantic | characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules |
| pensive | of, characterized by, or disposed to thought |
| pillory | (verb) to expose to ridicule and abuse |
| placate | (verb) to ease the anger or agitation of |
| plebeian | of, belonging to, or characteristic of commoners; coarse, crude |
| plethora | (noun) superabundance; an excess polemic |
| precedent | (noun) an act or instance that may be used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances propitious |
| pugnacious | combative in nature; belligerent; bellicose |
| punctilious | strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct |
| querulous | given to complaining; peevish |
| rapprochement | (noun) the state of reconciliation or of cordial relations. |
| recalcitrant | marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance |
| relegate | (verb) to assign to an obscure place, position, or condition |
| reticent | disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved. |
| rudimentary | of or relating to basic facts or principles; elementary |
| sagacious | having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd |
| salient | strikingly conspicuous; prominent |
| sanguine | cheerfully confident; optimistic / reddish; rubicund |
| sardonic | (N) scornfully or cynically mocking. |
| scabrous | dealing with scandalous or salacious material |
| schism | (noun) a separation or division into factions; disunion; discord |
| semiotic | of or relating to semantics |
| somnolent | drowsy, sleepy |
| specious | containing fundamental errors in reasoning; fallacious |
| supercilious | feeling or showing haughty disdain. |
| superfluous | being beyond what is required or sufficient. |
| surreptitious | obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means |
| sycophant | (noun) (N) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage; brownnoser |
| tacit | implied by or inferred from actions or statements |
| taciturn | inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation |
| tangible | possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete |
| temerity | (noun) audacity; foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness |
| torrid | passionate; ardent / hurried; rapid |
| tractable | easily handled or worked; malleable; easily managed, governable |
| transgression | (noun) the exceeding of due bounds, laws or limits |
| trenchant | forceful, effective, and vigorous / to the point, penetrating |
| truculent | pugnacious; brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing |
| turgid | excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent |
| ubiquitous | being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent |
| unctuous | (N) characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness |
| utopian | excellent or ideal but impracticable; visionary |
| vacillate | (verb) to swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another |
| vapid | lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull |
| veracity | (noun) adherence to the truth; truthfulness |
| verbatim | using exactly the same words; corresponding word for word |
| verbose | using or containing a great and usually an excessive number of words; wordy |
| vernacular | (noun) specialized language indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade, region, or subculture vicarious |
| vociferous | making, given to, or marked by noisy and vehement outcry |
| xenophobia | (noun) (N) a person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples. |
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