AP Lang 1st Sem
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abeyance | a temporary suspension of activity |
| abstinence | voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink or from doing something pleasant but not necessarrily good for you |
| abtruse | 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 langauge, 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 discern, 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 of energy, spray of gunfire |
| gainsay | to deny, speak or act against |
| garrulous | talkative |
| Halitosis | bad breath |
| irascible | hot tempered, cranky |
| leitmotif | a dominant or recurring theme |
| 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 particuraly in college |
| levee | an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding |
| maudlin | overly sentimental |
| melliflous | 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 |
| parsimonous | stingy |
| penury | extreme poverty |
| perfidious | faithless, untrustworthy |
| perfunctory | careless, unenthusiastic, done merekt 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 provacative |
| 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, abtruse, 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 | thickness and sonsistency of a liquid |
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