Week 19 AP English Language and Composition Vocabulary
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Created by:
aimers on February 18, 2010
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AP English Language & Composition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 brusque | marked by rude or peremptory shortness |
| caustic | harsh or corrosive in tone |
| fractious | easily irritated or annoyed |
| incorrigible | impervious to correction by punishment |
| ingrate | a person who shows no gratitude |
| insolent | unrestrained by convention or propriety |
| notorious | having an exceedingly bad reputation |
| pugnacious | ready and able to resort to force or violence |
| reprehensible | bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure |
| brittle | lacking warmth and generosity of spirit |
| deleterious | harmful to living things |
| enmity | a state of deep-seated ill-will |
| heinous | shockingly brutal or cruel |
| malfeasance | wrongful conduct by a public official |
| malice | the quality of threatening evil |
| putrid | morally corrupt or evil |
| rancorous | showing deep-seated resentment |
| toxic | of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison |
| not/without (anarchy) | a/an |
| away/down (abstract) | ab |
| do/move (action) | act |
| to/toward (admit) | ad |
| to walk (ambulance) | ambul |
| before (antebellum) | ante |
| weapon (army) | arm |
| thoroughly (bedecked) | be |
| two (bicycle) | bi |
| with/together (convene) | con, com |
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