AP Lang Halve 1st Semester
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adrisharp on August 23, 2010
Subjects:
ap english language & composition
Description:
92 words of halve/morgan/edwards AP lang vocab. 1st semester
Classes:
Petri_11AP, AP Language and Composition
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Abeyance |  a temporary suspension of activity |
| Abstinence | voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink or from doing from doing something pleasant but not good for you |
| Abstruse | hard to understand or grasp |
| Adumbrate | to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely |
| Alacrity | cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness |
| Ambulatory | able to walk or move about |
| Apocryphal | false, spurious, of a doubtful origin |
| Arbiter | a judge, one who decides |
| Ascetic | hermitlike, self,denial, austere |
| Assiduous | hardworking, busy, diligent |
| Capricious | whimsical, fanciful, impulsive |
| Castigate | to punish, chastise, criticize severely |
| Chary | careful, cautious, wary |
| Chicanery | deception or trickery |
| Chimerical | wildly fanciful, absurd |
| Circumlocution | wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression |
| Contentious | argumentative over a point, quarrelsome |
| Belie | to run counter to, to show something as false |
| Brook | to tolerate, to put up with something |
| Debacle | a disaster or violent breakdown |
| Deleterious | harmful |
| Descry | to discer, to see something, to catch sight of |
| Desiccate | to dry out |
| Discomfit | to confuse, deceive |
| Doff | to take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting |
| Doggerel | comic, sometimes crude, informal verse |
| Dossier | a file of documents, letters and records |
| Dulcet | having a nice, agreeable melodious sound |
| Encomium | a eulogy or expression of high praise |
| Endemic | native, belonging to a specific region |
| Espy | to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of |
| Evanescent | vanishing, happening for the briefest moment |
| Exemplar | an excellent model, a typical example |
| Exigent | urgent, demands prompt action |
| Extirpate | to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate |
| Facetious | humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner |
| Fecund | fertile, productive, fruitful |
| Fusillade | a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire |
| Gainsay | to deny, to speak or act against |
| Garrulous | talkative |
| Halitosis | bad breath |
| Irascible | hot tempered, cranky |
| Leitmotif | a dominant or recurring theme |
| Levee | an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding |
| Lope | to run at a steady, easy pace |
| Macerate | to soften by soaking, to cause to waste away |
| Malapropism | the humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word intended |
| Matriculate | to enroll, most particularly in college |
| Maudlin | overly sentimental |
| Mellifluous | sweetly flowing |
| Mordant | bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner |
| Moribund | being in a dying or decaying condition |
| Munificent | generous |
| Neophyte | a beginner, a novice |
| Officious | unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering |
| Omnivorous | eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| Oscillate | to swing back and forth |
| Ossify | to become rigid, to become set in one's ways |
| Palliate | to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to ease without curing |
| Pallid | lacking color, wan |
| Panegyric | lofty praise, eulogistic writing |
| Parsimonious | stingy |
| Penury | extreme poverty |
| Perfidious | faithless, untrustworthy |
| Perfunctory | careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty |
| Perorate | to make a long, formal speech, to sum up a speech |
| Perspicacious | shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment |
| Petulant | cranky, ill tempered, irritable, peevish |
| Piquant | pungent, charmingly provocative |
| Prescient | having foresight |
| Prevaricate | to deviate from the truth |
| Profligate | corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant |
| Propinquity | nearness in place or time, kinship |
| Protean | readily assuming different shapes or characters |
| Putrefy | to rot |
| Recalcitrant | stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority |
| Recondite | hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head |
| Reprobate | a morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel |
| Reticent | restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative |
| Ribaldry | vulgar or indecent language |
| Sagacious | wise, shrewd |
| Salubrious | favorable to health |
| Scotch | to put an end to |
| Sinuous | winding, having many curves |
| Striated | marked with thin lines or grooves |
| Supercilious | arrogant, overbearing, condescending |
| Surreptitious | sneaky, secret |
| Sycophant | a flatterer, a self-serving, "yes" man |
| Temerity | boldness, rashness, audacity |
| Truculent | hostile, aggressive, savage |
| Vacuous | empty, lacking intelligence |
| Viscosity | a thick or sticky consistency of a liquid |
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