List 32
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Hannah_Osborn on April 25, 2011
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ap english language and composition vocabulary guide
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35 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Novice | 1. beginner or apprentice (greenhorn, neophyte) |
| Dilettante | 1. an ameteur or "dabbler" who only knows a superficial amount of knowledge |
| Dilettante | 2. a lover of art |
| Nascent | 1. newly existing and growing, budding, and emerging, promising |
| Propitious | 1. favorable, promising |
| Proliferate | 1. reproduce, multiply; breed and grow rapidly; flourish or thrive |
| Dogged | 1. determined and resolute, stubbornly preserving |
| Obdurate | 1. stubborn, inflexible, and non-yielding ("pig-headed") |
| Consternation | 1. an unexpected dread, anxiety, or amazement resulting in bewilderment and confusion (dismay, disquiet, concern, alarm, panic, fright) |
| Antediluvian | 1. ancient or old [adjective] |
| Antediluvian | 2. belonging to before the Biblical flood [adjective] |
| Antediluvian | 3. a very old or out of date individual, ideas, or object [noun] |
| Approbation | 1. praise (commendation) |
| Approbation | 2. approval (sanction) |
| Assuage | 1. to ease or pacify (soothe, calm, mollify) |
| Ostensible | 1. seemingly (apparent) |
| Ostensible | 2. outwardly professed yet inwardly not true (pretended) |
| Pejorative | 1. uncomplimentary (derogatory, negative) |
| Perusal | 1. a careful review |
| Preponderance | 1. superiority |
| Salient | 1. significant (prominent, conspicuous, most important, outstanding, relevant) |
| Salient | 2. pointing outward |
| Salient | 3. jumping or leaping |
| Sophomoric | 1. immature (conceited, overconfident, childish, juvenile) |
| Flout | 1. openly disobey, disdain, or show contempt (mock, scorn) [verb] |
| Flout | 2. an insult [noun] |
| Furtive | 1. secretly taken (sneaky) |
| Furtive | 2. sly or shifty |
| Hiatus | 1. a break in the continuity of activity |
| Hiatus | 2. gap |
| Continuity | 1. a connected state of continuousness (constant, unbroken, uninterrupted) |
| Inane | 1. silly and meaningless (absurd, ridiculous, idiotic) |
| Intimation | 1. direct suggestion |
| Trenchant | 1. effective, articulate, clear-cut |
| Plaudits | 1. enthusiastic approval |
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