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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity; not genuine; spurious |
| Artless | frank; without guile or artificiality |
| Askance | with a sidewise glance; suspiciously; with disapproval |
| Beguile | cheat; charm decieve |
| Bogus | not genuine; spurious |
| Callow | undeveloped; inexperienced |
| Canard | an absurd rumor cirvulated to decieve the public |
| Candid | 1. frank 2. without prejudice |
| Charlatan | a pretender to knowledge; quack; imposter |
| Chicanery | trickery; sophistry |
| Circumvent | to by-pass; evade; or escape |
| Crass | coarsely stupid |
| Credulous | tending to believe too readily; easily convinced |
| Dexterous | skillful physically or mentally |
| Dubious | 1. doubtful 2. doubting |
| Duplicity | deception; double-dealing |
| Eclat | a brilliant success; brilliance; fame |
| Feign | to pretend |
| Gauche | awkward; tactless; lacking social grace |
| Guile | deception; craft or cunning |
| Guileless | naive; without cunning |
| Cullible | easily cheated or tricked; creduous |
| Hoax | a trick or fraud |
| Hookwink | to deceive |
| Ingenious | clever, resourcful, and inventive |
| Ingenuous | frank; simple; artless; innocent; unsophisticated |
| Integrity | 1. wholeness 2. uprightness; honesty |
| Mendacity | the act of lying; dishonesty |
| Naive | unaffectedly or foolishly simple; artless; unsophisticated |
| Neophyte | a beginner; novice |
| Nominal | in name only, not in fact |
| Novice | beginner; neophyte; apprentice; tyro |
| Ostensible | apparent; alleged (but not necessarily true) |
| Precocious | developed earlier than usual |
| Prevaricate | to evade telling the truth; to equivocate |
| Probity | intrgrity; uprightness; honesty |
| Puerile | childish; silly; immature |
| Pseudo | a combining form meaning false but deceptively similar |
| Qualm | feeling of uneasiness or doubt; a twinge of conscience |
| Sophisticated | worldly wise; not naive or ingenuous; and therefore lacking in simplicity or naturalness |
| Specious | seeming to be good, sound, or correct without really being so |
| Spurious | false; counterfeit; not genuine |
| Suave | smoothly plite; polished |
| Subterfuge | action used to evade somethin unpleasant |
| Tyro | a beginner; a novice |
| Veracity | truthfulness |
| Versatile | competent at many things |
| Vulpine | of or like a fox; clever, cunning |
| Wily | crafty; cunning |
Created by:
~Ash~
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