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ap english vocab 5
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| premonition | feeling about future |
| nascent | coming into existence; emerging |
| novel | strikingly new or unusual |
| candor | sincerity; openness |
| sonorous | producing deep or dull sound |
| comprehensive | large in scope or content |
| permeated [spread] | spread or flowing throughout |
| pervasive [dispersed] | dispersed throughout |
| prodigious | enormous |
| replete | abundantly supplied; filled to capacity |
| exemplary | commendable; worthy of imitation |
| laudatory | giving praise |
| venerated | highly respected |
| fastidious | ossessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please |
| meticulous | extremely careful and precise |
| pragmatic | practical |
| solvent | able to pay ones debt |
| apparatus | equipment; group of machines |
| chiasmus [ j.f.k] | inversion in second or two parallel clauses |
| hypothetical | existing only as an assumption or speculation |
| metonymy [sub] | fig.lang.1 term substituted for a term closely associated |
| panegyric | statement of high praise |
| period | long, complex, gramatically correct sentence |
| pernicious | causing great harm |
| propitious | presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious |
| sardonic | disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh bitter, or caustic |
| syllogism | form of deductive reasoning;major& minor premise &a conclusion |
| synecdoche prt=whole | form of metonymy where a part is used signify a whole |
| rational | logical, motivated by reason rather than feeling |