Mrs. Edwards AP Lang Semester 1 Vocab.
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| a temporary suspension of activity | ||
| voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink or from doing from doing something pleasant but not good for you | ||
| hard to understand or grasp | ||
| to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely | ||
| cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness | ||
| able to walk or move about | ||
| false, spurious, of a doubtful origin | ||
| a judge, one who decides | ||
| hermitlike, self,denial, austere | ||
| hardworking, busy, diligent | ||
| whimsical, fanciful, impulsive | ||
| to punish, chastise, criticize severely | ||
| careful, cautious, wary | ||
| deception or trickery | ||
| wildly fanciful, absurd | ||
| wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression | ||
| argumentative over a point, quarrelsome | ||
| to run counter to, to show something as false | ||
| to tolerate, to put up with something | ||
| a disaster or violent breakdown | ||
| harmful | ||
| to discer, to see something, to catch sight of | ||
| to dry out | ||
| to confuse, deceive | ||
| to take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting | ||
| comic, sometimes crude, informal verse | ||
| a file of documents, letters and records | ||
| having a nice, agreeable melodious sound | ||
| a eulogy or expression of high praise | ||
| native, belonging to a specific region | ||
| to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of | ||
| vanishing, happening for the briefest moment | ||
| an excellent model, a typical example | ||
| urgent, demands prompt action | ||
| to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate | ||
| humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner | ||
| fertile, productive, fruitful | ||
| a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire | ||
| to deny, to speak or act against | ||
| talkative | ||
| bad breath | ||
| hot tempered, cranky | ||
| a dominant or recurring theme | ||
| an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding | ||
| to run at a steady, easy pace | ||
| to soften by soaking, to cause to waste away | ||
| the humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word intended | ||
| to enroll, most particularly in college | ||
| overly sentimental | ||
| sweetly flowing | ||
| bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner | ||
| being in a dying or decaying condition | ||
| generous | ||
| a beginner, a novice | ||
| unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering | ||
| eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable substances | ||
| to swing back and forth | ||
| to become rigid, to become set in one's ways | ||
| to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to ease without curing | ||
| lacking color, wan | ||
| lofty praise, eulogistic writing | ||
| stingy | ||
| extreme poverty | ||
| faithless, untrustworthy | ||
| careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty | ||
| to make a long, formal speech, to sum up a speech | ||
| shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment | ||
| cranky, ill tempered, irritable, peevish | ||
| pungent, charmingly provocative | ||
| having foresight | ||
| to deviate from the truth | ||
| corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant | ||
| nearness in place or time, kinship | ||
| readily assuming different shapes or characters | ||
| to rot | ||
| stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority | ||
| hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head | ||
| a morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel | ||
| restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative | ||
| vulgar or indecent language | ||
| wise, shrewd | ||
| favorable to health | ||
| to put an end to | ||
| winding, having many curves | ||
| marked with thin lines or grooves | ||
| arrogant, overbearing, condescending | ||
| sneaky, secret | ||
| a flatterer, a self-serving, "yes" man | ||
| boldness, rashness, audacity | ||
| hostile, aggressive, savage | ||
| empty, lacking intelligence | ||
| a thick or sticky consistency of a liquid |
