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Ap Lang. Core Words
30 Core Vocab. Words
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fastidious | Excessively particular, critical, or demanding, hard to please |
| Elucidate | To make clear |
| Translucent | To shine through |
| Garish | Crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration |
| Fervent | Having or showing great warmth or intensity or spirit, feeling, enthusiasm; hot, burning, glowing |
| Garrulous | Excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters |
| Gratuitous | Given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment, being without apparent reason |
| Egregious | Remarkably or extraordinarily bad |
| Eclectic | Selecting and using what seems best from various sources, consisting of selections from various sources |
| Immutable | Not mutable, unchangeable, changeless |
| Delineate | To trace the outline of, sketch or trace in outline, represent pictorially |
| Bombastic | High-sounding, high-flown, inflated, pretentious |
| Despicable | Deserving to be despised, contemptible |
| Circuitous | roundabout, not direct, a circuitous route, a circuitous argument |
| Assuage | 1. to make milder of less severe 2. to appease, satisfy, relieve 3. to soothe, calm, or mollify |
| Aphorism | A concise and often witty statement of wisdom or opinion, such as "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." |
| Acrimony | Sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition |
| Aesthetics | The study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty |
| Acrid | Sharp, bitter, stinging to the mouth, eyes, skin, or nose. Irritating in matter; acrimonious |
| Anomaly | An odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc. |
| Lugubrious | Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated or unrelieved manner |
| Redundant | Using too many words for the same idea |
| Perspicacity | Keeping perception, wisdom and understanding in dealing with people or with facts |
| Perfunctory | Performed merely as a routine duty, hasty, and superficial |
| Rebuke | Express disapproval of |
| Rectify | To make right |
| Rectitude | Upright conduct or character |
| Laconic | Of a person, speech, or state of writing using very few words |
| Machination | Crafty schemes, plots, intrigues |
| Miscreant | Depraves, villainous, or base. Holding a false or unorthodox religious belief |
| Ephemeral | Lasting a very short time, short lived |
| Obdurate | Unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings |
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