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Advanced Comp/ Rhet
Vocab Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tutelage | Instruction, especially of an individual |
| torpor | a sluggish inactivity or inertia; lethargic indifference |
| polity | an organized society; a state as a political entity |
| pedagogical | of or relating to teaching, teaching methodologies, or practices |
| obsequiousness | characterized by or showing a service complaisance or deference; fawning behavior |
| martinet | a person who stresses a rigid adherece to the details of forms or methods |
| interloper | a person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or do not belong |
| inoccous | unlikely to offend; not intended to cause offense |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into or invasion of a place or territory, especially a sudden one or a raid |
| ipotent | without force of effectiveness |
| implore | to beg urgently or piteously |
| effusive | unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve |
| swindled | to get money or property from another under false pretenses; to cheat or defraud |
| substrate | a substance or layer that underlies something, on or which some process occurs, in particular |
| bucolic | relating to or typical of rural life |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a scientific principle, typcially by an ancient classic author |
| anachoristic | the representation of an event, person, or thing in a historical context in which it could not have occured or existed |
| privy | participating in the knowledge of something private or secret |
| agnostic | a person who holds that God or the existence of God is unknowable because human knowledge is limited |
| vivasciou | full of animation and spirit; lively |