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Book C

Ap Enlgish, Book C Vocabulary

QuestionAnswer
Gripe to grumble
Exodus emigration
Remonstrate to protest
Admonish to warn
Upbraid to scold vehemently
Rebuke to reprimand
Reproof an expression of disapproval
Recrimination counter accusation
Discountenance to frown
Carp a large fresh water fish
Gibe to tease
Twit to taunt
Chaff to make fun of in a good natured way
Raillery light and good natured teasing
Lampoon satirize in writing
Burlesque satirical imitation
Travesty ridiculous distortion
Reprehend to reprimand
Foible minor weakness
Mannerism peculiar way of speaking
Parsimony excessive stinginess
Condescend to lower oneself
Insinuate to imply indirectly
Obtrude to force ones opinion on
Simper to smile in a silly way
Sheepish bashful
Prude person who displays being modest
Buffoon foolish joker
Dolt stupid person
Pert bold
Effrontery boldness
Temerity reckless boldness
Willful stubborn
Sloth laziness
Shrew nagging woman
Leech blood sucking worm
Avarice / Rapacity excessive greed
Dissipate to waste
Perpetrate to commit
Pander to supply material for vices
Orgy wild marry making
Defile to make dirty
Desecrate to profane
Unregenerate wicked
Dank unpleasantly damp
Fetid having an offensive smell
Sordid dirty
Bestial like a beast
Predatory characterized by preying
Invidious giving offense
Odious / Heinous hateful
Pernicious deadly
Smut dirt
Botch to spoil
Decadence decline
Cataclysm a great flood
Dross any wast matter
Dreg waste matter at the bottom of a drinking vessel
Offal inedible butchered part of discarded animal
Perverse deviating from what is considered right
Formidable causing fear
Litigation lawsuit
Commute to change severe punishment to a lighter one
Surveillance observation
Extradite to deliver a criminal from one jurisdiction to another
Gendarme french policeman
Posse group of men with legal authority
Turnkey jailer
Alibi else where
Illicit forbidden by law
Poach to trespass
Abscond to run away secretly
Purloin to steal
Extort to get something from someone by threats
Rapine to plunder
Brigand a robber
Regicide killing of a king
Pretext an excuse
Pretension a claim whose truth may be questioned
Bewitch cast a spell over
Intrigue secret
Inveigle win over by trickery
Fraudulent false
Humbug hoax
Cozen / Gull to cheat
Dupe to fool
Guile treachery
Stratagem scheme, trick
Subterfuge deception used to avoid something difficult
Collusion conspiracy
Calumny slander
Traduce to slander
Credulity readiness of belief
Meed reward
Remuneration pay
Restitution reimbursement
Gauntlet glove
Pillory DRAWING, stocks
Caliber quality
Commensurate corresponding
Congruent coming together
Correlate to make an orderly connection
Incidence rate
Twain two
Avoirdupois system of weights and measures
Tare weight of an empty container
Sector section of area
Scope range of understanding
Latitude DRAW. horizontal lines
Longitude DRAW. Vertical lines
Microcosm little world
Unique one of a kind
Virtual in effect but not fact
Tantamount equivalent
Disparity in equality
Bland dull
Pungent spicy
Fervent intense
Profuse abundant
Prolific very creative
Luxuriant rich
Commodious roomy
Replete stuffed
Divers several
Untold too numerous to count
Myriad innumerable
Superfluous / Extraneous unnecessary
Sporadic occurring occasionally
Rudiment fundamental
Vestige trace of something no longer in existence
Dearth scarcity
Devoid empty
Configuration outline
Rotundity roundness
Crescent DRAW.
Convolution twisting
Wry / Awry crooked
Thwart across
Transverse lying across
Access means of approach
Continuity contact
Abut to touch
Periphery outer surface
Environ to enclose
Girt surrounded
Beset to surround
Bestride to ride with one leg on each side
Interstice crevasse
Orifice mouth like opening
Rift crack
Schism to split one groups into two separate groups
Ubiquitous elsewhere
Nether lower
Seclude to isolate
Primordial original
Premier principal
Precursor for runner
Vanguard front line
Ascendancy domination
Adjunct not essential
Subsidiary supplementary
Subservient unduly submissive
Animate to give life to
Headlong reckless
Hurtle / Scud move swiftly
Careen to lay on ones side
Trundle to roll along
Undulate move in waves
Shunt to shift
Shamble shuffle along
Desultory be disconnected
Itinerant traveling from place to place
Centrifugal moving outward
Extricate to set free
Ensconce to hide
Consign to deliver
Brandish to wave threateningly
Canter moderate gallop
Equestrian related to horses
Sedentary requires little movement
Engender to cause
Broach to bring up
Supersede take the place of
Supervene to happen unexpectedly
Preclude to prevent by previous action
Eschew shun
Forgo to give up
Desist stop
Expunge destroy completely
Terminus end
Quittance release from debt
Quietus final release
Tack policy
Caprice fancy
Vagary odd idea
Diversion a change of course
Diverge deviate
Digress turn away from main subject
Vacillate to fluxuate in thought
Volatile lively
Sublimate To express socially unexceptionable actions in socially acceptable forms
Changeling a child secretly exchanged in infancy for another
Congeal to freeze
Conservative moderate, cautious
Dispense distribute
Mete A lot
Disseminate to spread widely
Bandy to toss back and forth
Bruit to spread rumor of
Vaunt to brag
Flaunt to display showily
Emanate to issue out
Pervade to spread throughout
Transpeire to become known
Effluence outward flow
Cheep short faint shrill sounds
Drone monotonous humming sound
Clangor sharp loud noise
Clack clucking sound
Champ to bite
Accession addition
Accrue to grow bank interest
Augment make greater
Amass to accumulate
Aggrandize make greater in riches
Embellish to decorate
Interpolate to alter a text by inserting word
Evolve to develop gradually
Fledge to provide feather for flying
Concatenation linking together
Reconstitute to form again
Constrict to draw together
Abate to lessen
Allay to calm
Slake to satisfy
Slough to shed
Divest to unclothe
Denude to strip
Gut to destroy
Created by: jbooth
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