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Ferguson List 16
Ferguson Honors/AP list 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abet | to ugre or help, especially in wrongdoing |
| Apostate | a renegade; one who abandons a faith he once believed in |
| Avert | 1. to turn aside 2. prevent |
| Axiomatic | self-ecvident; taken for granted |
| Balk | to obstruct; thwart |
| Cabal | 1. an intrigue or plot 2. plotting group; junto |
| Cache | 1. hiding place 2. anything so hidden |
| Clandestine | secret or hidden |
| Conclave | a private meeting |
| Conducive | contrubuting to a result |
| Connive | to cooperate or plot, esp. in wrongdoing |
| Covert | concealed; hidden |
| Cumberous | burdernsome; awkard to handle or carry |
| Defection | desertion; apostasy |
| Disseminate | to scatter; to spread widely |
| Divulge | to disclose; make known; reveal |
| Engima | a perplexing statement; a riddle or puzzle |
| Enjoin | 1. to command 2.to prohibit or forbid |
| Furtive | secretive; sly; shifty |
| Impasse | a deadlock or deadend |
| Impediment | a obstruction or hiderance |
| Incognito | with true identity unrevealed or disguised |
| Incubus | a nightmare or an oppresive weight |
| Inhibit | to restrain or surpress |
| Insidious | treacherous; more dangerous than seems evident |
| Interdict | to prohibit or forbid |
| Invidious | tending to arouse ill will; offensive, esp, by discriminating unfairly |
| Jeopardize | endanger |
| Junto | a group of political intriguers; cabal; council |
| Latent | lying hidden and undeveloped within a person or thing; concealed; dormant |
| Machination | a scheme; a plot (usually plural) |
| Mandatory | authoriatively commanded; obligatory |
| Manifest | apparent; evident; obivous (v) to make clear; reveal; to appear |
| Occult | hidden; secret; estoreic; mysterious; beyond human understanding |
| Onerous | burdernsome; oppresive |
| Overt | open; mainfest |
| Patent | evident; obivous |
| Perfidy | treachery |
| Precarious | dangerously uncertain |
| Preclude | to make impossible, esp. in advance |
| Promulgate | to make known throughout; to announce officially |
| Proscribe | to outlaw or banish ; to forbid; interdict |
| Quash | to quell; to put down ; supress, as an uprising |
| Quell | to crush; subdue |
| Renegade | traitor; apostate |
| Reticent | characteristically silent or reserved; tactiturn |
| Sanction | approval; any penalty that acts to insure compliance |
| Subvert | to overthrow; undermine, or corrupt |
| Surreptitious | stealthy; secretive; clandestine |
| Vulnerable | able to be wounded or harmed |
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