216070989 | rakish | marked by smartness in dress and manners | |
216070990 | assimilate | to absorb fully or make one's own; to adopt as one's own; to adapt fully | |
216070991 | lanky | ungracefully tall and thin | |
216070992 | apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites | |
216070993 | humanism | a philosophy in which interests and values of human beings are of primary importance | |
216070994 | equity | fairness; justice; OP. inequity | |
216070995 | dowry | money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | |
216070996 | malady | a sickness, illness, disease, disorder | |
216070997 | impeccable | not capable of sin | |
216070998 | altruistic | showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | |
216070999 | lampoons | to publicly criticize something or someone by using ridicule, sarcasm or irony | |
216071000 | vile | wretchedly bad; highly offensive, unpleasant or objectionable | |
216071001 | tenacious | determined, keeping a firm grip on | |
216071002 | denigrates | To treat as worthless, critisize | |
216071003 | extrapolate | extend; predict on the basis of known data | |
216071004 | supercilious | having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | |
216071005 | angst-ridden | consumed by anxiety and fear | |
216071006 | sanguine | confidently optimistic and cheerful | |
216071007 | base | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | |
216071008 | rationalize | defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | |
216340554 | satirizes | To use sarcasm | |
216363670 | holistic | dealing with something as a whole rather than by its individual parts |
AP English Vocab
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