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 |
AP Lang : 1st semester
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