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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aggravate | to make worse; intensify |
| Alienate | to make unfriendly, hostile, or indefferent where attachment formerly existed |
| Alleviate | to make less hard to bear; relieve; lessen |
| Assuage | to lessen; satisfy |
| Austere | 1. harsh 2. strict 3. unadorned |
| Castigate | to punsih; criticize severely |
| Chastise | to punish, usually by beating |
| Clemency | mercy or leniency |
| Coerce | to force or compel |
| Compunction | uneasiness of guilt or sorrow for sin; remorse |
| Condolence | sympathy |
| Condone | to excuse or overlook |
| Contrite | sincerely sorry for sin; penitent; remorseful |
| Culpable | guilty; deserving blame |
| Deplore | to regret to lament |
| Duress | 1. imprsonment 2. compulsion |
| Enhance | to make greater; to intensify |
| Estrange | to turn (a person) from a friendly attitude to an indifferent or unfriendly one |
| Exacerbate | to make more intense or bitter; to aggrevate or irritate |
| Exculpate | to free from blame; to prove guiltless |
| Exonerate | to free (a person) from a charge of guilt; exculpate |
| Expatriate | to exile |
| Expiate | to make amends or to atone for (wrongdoing or guilt) |
| Extenuate | to lessen the seriousness of by giving excuses |
| Fetter | a chain, esp for the feet; to chain; to restrain |
| Implacable | not to be appeased or pacified; relentless |
| Impunity | freedom from punishment or loss |
| Incarcerate | to imprison |
| Inclement | stormy; severe (merciless) |
| Incorrigible | beyond correction or reform |
| Inexorable | relentless; unable to be influenced by persuasion or entreaty |
| Internment | burial |
| Lenient | not harsh or severe; merciful |
| Manacle | a handcuff; fetter for the hand; to handcuff |
| Mitigate | to moderate; soften; lessen |
| Mollify | to soothe; pacify; appease |
| Nonentity | something or someone that is of little importance or does not exist |
| Ostracize | to banish or exclude from a group |
| Palliate | to lessen th pain or severity; alleviate; extenuate |
| Pariah | an outcast; a despised person |
| Penance | any act of suffering to show repentance for wrongdoing |
| Placate | to appease; pacify |
| Propitiate | to win or regain the good will of ; appease or conciliate |
| Rampant | wild; unchecked |
| Relegate | to assign to an inferior position |
| Remorse | guilt; repentence |
| Ruthless | pitiless |
| Scourge | to punish severely, specif. to whip or flog |
| Stringent | strict; severe |
| Tether | a rope or chain to fasten or tie up |
| Transgress | to break a rule; to violate |
| Vindicate | to clear of blame; exonerate; absolve |
| Vitiate | to make weaker |
| Wanton | 1. unchaste (promiscuous) 2. senseless; unprovoked; deliberately malicious |
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~Ash~
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