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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alacrity | briskness; eagerness |
| Bursque | abrupt; rudely blunt or curt |
| Capricious | flighty; whimsical; unpredictable |
| Celerity | swiftness; speed; alacrity |
| Circuitous | indirect; devious |
| Cursory | hasty and therefore slppy or superficial |
| Curtail | to cut short or reduce |
| Demur | to hesitate; to object |
| Devious | 1. not straight-forward;tricky; unfair 2. indirect; wandering; roundabout |
| Dilatory | delaying |
| Ephemeral | short-lived; transitory |
| Evanescent | vanishing; fleeting; ephemeral |
| Expeditious | efficient and speedy |
| Fickle | changeable in affection, interest, etc; capricious |
| Fleet | swift; rapid |
| Fluctuate | to be continually changing in an irregular way |
| Hiatus | a break or gap; a pause |
| Immutable | unchangeable |
| Incessant | without interruption; constant |
| Inert | unable to move or resisting motion; inactive |
| Interminable | endless, or seemingly so |
| Inveterate | deeply rooted through long practice; habitual |
| Irrevocable | incapable of being retracted or withdrawn; irreversible |
| Itinerant | traveling, esp. as on a circuit to work |
| Labyrinthine | mazelike; intricate; confusing |
| Meander | 1. to take a winding course, as a stream 2. to wander idly or aimlessly |
| Oscillate | to swing back and forth |
| Ponderous | massive, sometimes to the point of being dull or lacking grace |
| Procrastinate | to put off or postpone (not usually used with a dirct object) |
| Protract | to prolong |
| Quiescence | inactivity; state of being at rest |
| Respite | 1. a delay; postponement 2. a temporary relief |
| Retrogress | to move backward, esp. to a worse condition; to decline |
| Sedentary | characterized by sitting |
| Sinuous | 1. winding; curvy 2. supple and lither in movement |
| Sporadic | happening from time to time; not regular |
| Temporize | to compromise or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid argument, or postpone a decision |
| Tentative | made or done as a trial or provisionally |
| Tergiversation | 1. the act of being deliberatly ambiguous; equvocation 2. defection; the act of changing sides, becoming an apostate or renegade |
| Transient | temporary; staying only for a short time |
| Transitory | not lasting; temporary; fleeting |
| Transmute | to transform; to change from one thing into another |
| Unremitting | constant; incessant |
| Vacillate | to waver in mind or will |
| Vagary | an odd or eccentric action; a whimsical or freakish notion; a caprice |
| Vicissitudes | irregular changes, esp. of circumstances in life or of fortune |
| Volatile | tending to change or burst forth |
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~Ash~
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