The Unofficial AP English Language and Composition Vocabulary Guide Week 25
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 auspicious | 1. favorable and prosperous (promising, propitious) |
| propitious | 1. favorable (auspicious) |
| benign | 1. gracious, kind, and gentle |
| benign | 2. favorable (propitious) |
| benign | 3. pleasant and healthful |
| benign | 4. in medicine, not malignant |
| astute | 1. keen, clever, and discerning (shrewd, smart, judicious) |
| compelling | 1. overpowering (forceful) |
| compelling | 2. persuasive (undeniable, convincing) |
| tenacious | 1. a firm hold |
| tenacious | 2. stubborn (obstinate) |
| tenacious | 3. strong |
| tenacious | 4. sticky (cohesive) |
| legibility | 1. the state of being readable, decipherable, or understandable |
| nebulous | 1. hazy, cloudy, vague (imprecise, ill-defined) |
| epigrammatic | 1. expressed with a terse, ingenious, wittiness about the phrase or words |
| amalgamate | 1. to mix (blend, combine, merge, join, fuse, mingle) |
| onerous | 1. oppressive and arduous (burdensome, troublesome, tiring, heavy, grievous) |
| sporadic | 1. irregular (intermittent, infrequent) |
| sporadic | 2. scattered about in time or place from the others |
| vacillate | 1. waver or think twice; to be indecisive (hesitate) |
| venerate | 1. to revere or respect |
| dilatory | 1. causing to slow down or delay (procrastinating) |
| burnish | 1. polished by friction, to become bright and smooth (buff) |
| calcify | 1. to become like stone, make rigid, or make solid |
| calcify | 2. in medicine, to change to harden or become chalky with the deposit of calcium |
| ameliorate | 1. to make better (improve) |
| adulterate | 1. to make impure |
| aver | 1. to positively declare to be true |
| gist | 1. the main point or idea (essence) |
| grovel | 1. to humble yourself and make apologies in great fear |
| grovel | 2. to physically prostrate before another |
| abject | 1. utterly wretched and hopeless (dismal) |
| abject | 2. contemptible, despicable (horrible) |
| abject | 3. forlorn (rejected) |
| hone | 1. to sharpen |
| hone | 2. to make better |
| incarcerate | 1. imprison (jail) |
| incarcerate | 2. confine |
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