AP English VOC Exam Part II
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kdeds on December 10, 2011
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AP English Language & Composition
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Includes Sadlier-Oxford Vocab Level G Units 1-6 and PSAT root words&vocabulary
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52 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 libertine | someone who is morally unrestrained; freethinker; a freed slave from ancient Rome; unrestrained, uncontrolled |
| beneficient | doing good or causing good to be done; kindly in action or purpose |
| benign | having a kindly disposition, gracious, gentleness, favorable; (of weather) healthful, pleasant, beneficial |
| corporeal | nature of the physcial body, bodily, the material, tangible |
| pellucid | transparent, translucent, clear in style or meaning |
| malevolent | wishing evil or harm on others, showing ill will, malicious, evil, harmful |
| maritime | of or pertaining to sea, bordering near sea, characteristic of a sailor, connected with the sea in relation to navigation or shipping |
| culpable | deserving blame, censure, blame worthy |
| exculpate | to clear from a charge of guilt or fault, free from blame, vindicate, acquit |
| corpulence | fatness, bulkiness, largeness, portliness |
| colloquial | characteristic of appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation, informal |
| amicable | friendly, characterized by or showing good will, peaceable |
| amorous | of or pertaining to love, being in love, expressing love |
| pandemic | widespread, general, epedemic, a wide geographic area |
| complacent | pleasant, pleased with oneself, self-satisfied |
| placid | undisturbed by tumult or disorder, calm, composed |
| implacable | not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified |
| sanctimonious | making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, peity, righteousness |
| non sequitur | an inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises, a statement containing an illogical conclusion |
| subjugate | to bring under complete control or subjection, conquer, master, enslave |
| superfluous | being more than sufficient or required, excessive, unnecessary or needless, extravagant |
| supercilious | haughtily disdainful, contempt as a person or facial expression |
| reticent | reclined to keep one's personal affairs to oneself, restrained, reserved, reluctant, unwilling |
| taciturn | habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| subterranean | existing, situated, operating below the surface of the earth, underground |
| veracious | honest, truthful, accurate, precise |
| aver | to assert positively, declare |
| versimilitude | something or the quality of appearing to be true or real |
| revile | to address or speak abusively, to assail with the use of abusive language |
| villify | to speak ill of, defame, slander |
| misnomer | an error in naming a person or lying; an incorrect or unsuitable name or term |
| insipid | bland, without taste |
| antithesis | opposition, contrast, direct opposite |
| nominal | of or like a name, existing in name only |
| coagulate | to clot together, to change from a fluid into a thickened mass |
| somnolent | sleepy, drowsy |
| atrophy | wasting or shrinking away of bodily organ tissue or part; decline |
| innate | possessed at birth, in born, incoherent, native |
| belligerent | warlike, aggressively hostile, to be in war |
| paradox | contradictorary statement that may be nonetheless true |
| orthodoxy | orthodox belief, practice, or teaching |
| antebellum | before or existing in the war (generally Civil War) |
| cognate | having a common ancestor or origin; related by birth, similar in nature |
| cognitive | of or pertaining to a mental process or perception, memory vs. emotional process |
| moribund | dying state, near death, on the verge of extinction, stagnant, not moving |
| mania | excessive excitement, enthusiasm, or craze |
| pseudonym | a fictitous name used by an author to conceal his or her identity (pen name) |
| indelible | cannot be eliminated, forgotten, changed |
| onerous | burdensome, oppressive, troublesome, causing hardship |
| impervious | impenetrable, incapable of being influenced, injured, or impaired |
| euphony | agreeable sound |
| euphemism | the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered blunt or offensive |
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