Ms. Taylor's Vocab. Unit 11
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eramire on February 7, 2012
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AP English III, AP English Language and Composition
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adjudicate | (v) to act as judge in a matter; to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal [L. ad-to + judicare-to judge] |
| querulous | (adj) full of complaints, apt to find fault; whiny, grumbling, complaining [L. queri-to complain] |
| acumen | (n) keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgment [L. acumen-sharpness] |
| dissemble | (v) to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings or intentions; conceal, dissimulate [L. dis-not + similis-like] |
| anachronism | (n) a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons, in regard to each other [Gk. ana-back + chronos-time] |
| empirical | (adj) derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory; so verifiable [Gk. em-in + peir-to attempt] |
| apocryphal | (adj) full of doubtful or questionable authenticity; pertaining to religious books outside of the canon [Gk. apo-away + kruptein- to hide] |
| disparity | (n) a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity, unlikeness [L. dis-not + par-equal] |
| immolate | (v) to kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire; to destroy or renounce for the sake of another [L. im-in + mol-barley meal(sprinkled on sacrificial offerings)] |
| sublimate | (v) to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctual impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel [=elevated] |
| mot juste | (n) the most suitable or exact word or expression [Fr. mot-word + juste-right] |
| propitiate | (v) to make someone or something favorably inclined towards oneself to conciliate, satisfy, or appease [L. propitius-favorable] |
| nihilism | (n) a total rejection of existing laws, institutions, and moral values; anarchy or extreme radicalism; the philosophical denial of existence [L. nihil-nothing] |
| liaison | (n) the contact or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such a contact; an illicit sexual relationship; a thickening or binding agent in cooking [L. ligare-to bind] |
| monolithic | (adj) characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity; formed of a single block of stone [Gk. mono-one + lithos-stone] |
| sic | (adv) thus so; intentionally written so, often to indicate an error or unconventionality that was in the original text [L.] |
| effusive | (adj) gushing, excessively demonstrative; unrestrained [L. ex-out + fusus-poured] |
| lugubrious | (adj) sad, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree [L. lugere-to mourn] |
| dichotomy | (n) a division into two mutually exclusive, opposed or contradictory parts [Gk. dicho- in two + tomy- cutting] |
| sine qua non | (n) an essential indispensable element or condition [L. without which not] |
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