211308023 | accede | to agree | |
211308024 | accolade | anything done or given as a sign of great respect, approval, appreciation | |
211308025 | accursed | Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune. | |
211308026 | acquiesce | To comply; submit. | |
211308027 | acquiescence | passive consent | |
211308028 | adamant | not giving in or relenting; unyielding | |
211308029 | aesthetics | the study or theory of beauty and of the psychological responses to it; specifically the branch of philosophy dealing with art, its creative sources, its forms, and its effects | |
211308030 | affable | pleasant and east to approach; friendly | |
211308031 | altruism | unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness | |
211308032 | amass | to pile up; to accumulate | |
211308033 | ambidextrous | able to use both hands with equal skill or ease | |
211308034 | ambiguous | having two or more possible meanings; not clear; uncertain | |
211308035 | abeyance | a state of suspension or temporary inaction | |
211308036 | abase | to lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade | |
211308037 | abstruse | hard to understand; deep; complex | |
211308038 | abridge | to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaving out the minor parts | |
211308039 | abstemious | characterized by self-denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink or food | |
211308040 | ambivalence | simultaneous conflicting feelings toward a person or thing | |
211308041 | ambivalent | feeling simultaneous conflicting feelings | |
211308042 | ambulatory | of or for walking | |
211308043 | ameliorate | to relieve, as from pain or hardship | |
211308044 | amity | friendship | |
211308045 | amorphous | w/o determinate shape | |
211308046 | anachronism | anything occuring or existing out of its proper time | |
211308047 | antediluvian | of the time before the Biblical Flood; very old; old-fashioned, or primitive | |
211308048 | anthropomorphous | having or resembling human form | |
211308049 | apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity; not genuine | |
211308050 | apostasy | a total departure from one's faith or religion | |
211308051 | archaic | antiquated; old-fashioned | |
211308052 | atrophy | a wasting away | |
211308053 | austere | having a severe or stern look, manner, etc; very plain, lacking ornament or luxury | |
211308054 | avarice | too great a desire to have wealth; greed | |
211308055 | banal | commonplace; dull or stale as b/c of overuse; trite | |
211308056 | bane | the cause of distress, death, or ruin | |
211308057 | baneful | causing distress, death, or ruin |
Ap English Vocab Unit 1 - Definitions
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