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AP Lang : 1st semester

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v. to swing back and forth
Adj. cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness
V. to punish, chastise, criticize severely
Adj. hard to understand or grasp
Adj. Wildly fanciful, absurd
N. comic, sometimes crude, informal verse
V. to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of
Adj. having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound
Adj. Talkative
N. the humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word intended
N. a dominant or recurring theme
Adj. having foresight
Adj. Lacking color, wan
Adj. false, spurious, of doubtful orgin
V. to put an end to
Adj. fertile, productive, fruitful
V. To deviate from the truth
Adj. corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant
Adj. Crank, ill tempered, irritable, peevish
Adj. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority
N. Deception or trickery
Adj. being in a dying or decaying condition
V. and N. to make a long, formal speech to sum up a speech
Adj. humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
V. to deny, To speak or act against
N. a eulogy of expression or high praise
N. An excellent model, a typical example
Adj. boldness, rashness, audacity
N. Lofty praise, eulogistic writing
Adj Shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment
V. to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to ease without curing
Adj. Hostile, aggressive, savage
Adj. favorable to health
Adj. Hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head
V. to tolerate, to put up with something
Adj. Stingy
V. To suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely
V. to soften by soaking to cause to waste away
N. an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
Adj. vulgar or indecent language
Adj. Wise, shrewd
Adj. careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty
N. a judge, one who decides
Adj. faithless, untrustworthy
N. wordy language, an indirect round about expression
Adj. sneaky, secret
N. a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire
Adj. readily assuming different shapes or characters
V. to rot
V. to enroll, most particularly in college
Adj. restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative
Adj. Arrogant, overbearing, condescending
V. to confuse, to deceive
Adj. Harmful
Adj. Urgent, demands prompt action
Adj. Pungent, charmingly provocative
N. A morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel
Adj. Hardworking, busy, diligent
N. extreme poverty
Adj. overly sentimental
Adj. Winding, having many curves
Adj. eating or absorbing everything feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
Adj. sweetly flowing
N. a flatterer, a self-serving yes-man
N. A disaster or violent breakdown
N. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink, or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
Adj. Argumentative over a point, quarrelsome
Adj. Nearness in place or time, kinship
Adj. empty, lacking intelligence
Adj. unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering
Adj. marked with thin lines or grooves
N. A beginner, a novice
N. bad breath
Adj. able to walk or move about
N. a file of documents, letters and records
Adj. native, belonging to a specific region
N. a temporary suspension or activity
Adj. Vanishing happening for the briefest moment
V. to take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting
V. to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate
Adj. careful, cautious, wary
Adj. Whimsical, fanciful, impulsive
V. to run at a steady, easy pace
Adj. hot-tempered, cranky
Adj. generous
V. to discern, to see something, to catch sight of
Adj. bitingly sarcastic, incisive caustic manner
Adj. a thick or sticky consistency of a liquid
V. to run counter to, to show something as false
Adj. hermit live, self-denial, austere
V. to dry out
V. to become rigid, to become set in one's ways

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