AP Lang Vocab Semester 1 Set 2
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magicboy118 on August 31, 2010
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ap language and composition, ap lang, ap language vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 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 |
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