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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acrimonious | bitter or harsh in manner or speech |
| Amity | friendship |
| Antipathy | a strong dislike |
| Asperity | harshness; sharpness or temper |
| Baleful | deadly; harmful |
| Balmy | soothing; refreshing; mild |
| Baneful | poisonous; deadly; ruinous |
| Benign | 1. kindly 2. doing little or no harm |
| Bland | 1. mild; suave 2. dull; insipid 3. soothing; not irritating |
| Cantankerous | badtempered; quarrelsome; peevish |
| Captious | quick to find fault; hypercritical; perversely hard to please |
| Caustic | biting or stinging in tone; sarcastic |
| Cavil | to find petty fault; to object or criticize captiously |
| Choleric | ill-tempered |
| Consummate | complete; perfect; to bring to completion |
| Deleterious | harmful; injurious |
| Dudgeon | an angry or offended feeling; resentment (always used as the object of the preposition "in") |
| Fastidious | hard to please; oversensitive |
| Fractious | irritable; unruly |
| Fulsome | disgusting or offensive |
| Heinous | odious; very wicked; outrageous |
| Impeccable | flawless; faultless |
| Inimical | hostile; not conduvice; averse |
| Iniquitous | wicked; sinful |
| Innoncuous | harmless; lacking impact |
| Irascible | irritable |
| Malevolent | wishing evil or harm to others; malicious; spiteful |
| Meticulous | extremely or excessively careful about details; scrupulous |
| Miscreant | a criminal or villain |
| Misogyny | hatred of women |
| Mordant | biting, caustic, or sarcastic |
| Morose | gloomy; sullen; surly |
| Nefarious | wicked; iniquitous |
| Noxious | harmful; injurious; unwholesome |
| Obnoxious | offensive; objectionable |
| Paragon | a model of excellence |
| Pernicious | highly injurious or destructive; deadly |
| Petulant | impatient or irritable; peevish |
| Pique | resentment; wounded pride |
| Querulous | fretful; faultfinding; constantly complaining |
| Rancor | deep-seated and bitter hatred, ill-will, or spite |
| Sinister | threatening; evil, esp. in a mysterious way |
| Splenetic | irritable; peevish; spiteful |
| Testy | peevish; irritable; touchy |
| Trenchant | keen; penetrating; incisive |
| Truculent | fierce; savage; cruel |
| Umbrage | offense; resentment (almost always used as the object of the verb "take") |
| Unconscionable | not influenced by conscience; unreasonable; outrageous |
| Virago | a loud, overbearing woman; shrew; termagant |
| Virulent | exremely poisonous or hostile |
Created by:
~Ash~
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