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RHS AP English
Vocabulary List #2 (Week 2)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Condescending | Treating people as weak or inferior |
| Contemptuous | feeling hatred for; scornful |
| Despotic | Exercising absolute power; tyrannical |
| Dictatorial | Domineering; oppresively overbearing |
| Disdain | (noun) contempt or scorn; (verb) to look down on; to regard with contempt |
| Haughty | Arrogant; vain |
| Imperious | Arrogantly domineering |
| Patronizing | Treating in a condescending manner; treating others as inferior. |
| Convoluted | intricate; unnecessarily complex |
| Cryptic | Difficulty to understand |
| Futile | Having no purpose; pointless |
| Impede | To slow the progress of |
| Obscure | (adjective) relatively unknown; (verb) to conceal |
| Quandary | A state of uncertainty |
| Indolent | Lazy |
| Insipid | Lacking taste; lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge. |
| Listless | Lacking energy |
| Torpor | Laziness; inactivity; dullness |
| Alienated | Removed or disassociated from; disconnected socially |
| Disparity | Inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference |
| Servile | Submissive; behaving like a servant. |
| Suppressed | Subdued; kept from being published. |