AP Lit Vocabulary - 2nd Set - List 8

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confound
Confuse; puzzle
curate (noun)
A person authorized to conduct religious worship
curate (verb)
To take charge of (a museum) or organize (an art exhibit)
ethereal
very light, airy; heavenly
gambol
to dance or skip around playfully
mutability
Ability to change in form
nascent
starting to develop; coming into existence
nonplused
perplexed
pedantic
Excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules
quail
to shrink back in fear, lose courage
rhetoricalA question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answerfatuousstupid; foolishly self-satisfiedfebrileFeverishfurtivesecret, stealthyincredulousDisbelievinginterminableEndlessobliquelyindirectlyperniciousDestructive; deadlysardoniccynical; scornfully mockingultimatumA final proposal or statement of conditionswritheto twist or bending in pain