Mrs. Edwards AP Lang Semester 2 Vocab.
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| 51154637 | Abrogate | to repeal, to set aside, to nullify | |
| 51154638 | Abscond | to leave quickly and secretively | |
| 51154639 | Accolade | award or honor, high praise | |
| 51154640 | Adjure | to command or urge solemnly and earnestly | |
| 51154641 | Aggrieve | to distress, to mistreat | |
| 51154642 | Ameliorate | to make better, to ease or improve | |
| 51154643 | Anathema | something or someone loathed or intensely disliked | |
| 51154644 | Ancillary | subsidiary, subordinate | |
| 51154645 | Antipodal | situated on opposite sides of the earth, or being exactly opposite | |
| 51154646 | Apostasy | abandonment of a loyalty or religion | |
| 51154647 | Assignation | a secret meeting, a tryst, or something assigned | |
| 51154648 | Bandy | to toss back and forth, to exchange, to use in a glib way | |
| 51154649 | Bathos | a transition from the illustrious to the commonplace, overdone pathos, triteness | |
| 51154650 | Bilious | ill-tempered, cranky, angry | |
| 51154651 | Bivouac | temporary encampment | |
| 51154652 | Bumptious | pushy, conceited, noisily self-assertive | |
| 51154653 | Byzantine | extremely intricate or complicated in structure | |
| 51154654 | Cabal | a secret group of conspirators, a clique | |
| 51154655 | Calumny | slander, deliberate false statements | |
| 51154656 | Cavil | to quibble, to raise trivial objections | |
| 51154657 | Comport | to behave | |
| 51154658 | Concomitant | accompanying, attending, going along with | |
| 51154659 | Conflagration | a large, disastrous fire | |
| 51154660 | Coterie | an intimate group of people with a common interest | |
| 51154661 | Decimate | to kill or destroy a large part of something | |
| 51154662 | Depredate | to prey upon, to plunder with violence if necessary | |
| 51154663 | Determinism | a philosophy that says things are determined in ways that are out of human hands | |
| 51154664 | Dichotomy | division into two often contradictory parts | |
| 51154665 | Dissipate | to break up, to squander, to indulge excessively in sensual pleasure | |
| 51154666 | Draconian | severe, exceedingly harsh | |
| 51154667 | Effete | exhausted, lost vitality, over-refined | |
| 51154668 | Enervate | to weaken, to sap the strength | |
| 51154669 | Ennui | boredom, listlessness, lack of interest | |
| 51154670 | Ensconce | to settle in snugly, to hide in a secure place | |
| 51154671 | Erudite | scholarly, deeply learned, well read | |
| 51154672 | Feckless | lacking responsibility, ineffective | |
| 51154673 | Feral | wild, like an wild animal, savage | |
| 51154674 | Fetter | to impede, retrain, hamper | |
| 51154675 | Flagellate | to whip, or to punish as if by whipping | |
| 51154676 | Foment | to stir up, to incite | |
| 51154677 | Forswear | retract, renounce or recant | |
| 51154678 | Gestalt | a structure whose parts cannot stand alone | |
| 51154679 | Gesticulate | to gesture, especially when speaking | |
| 51154680 | Gird | to invest with authority, to brace | |
| 51154681 | Histrionic | overly dramatic, theatrical, deliberately affected | |
| 51154682 | Ignominious | disgraceful, dishonorable | |
| 51154683 | Impecunious | without money, penniless | |
| 51154684 | Impugn | to attack the integrity of something | |
| 51154685 | Implacable | not capable of being appeased or mollified | |
| 51154686 | Inchoate | just beginning, not organized or orderly, incomplete | |
| 51154687 | Iniquitous | evil, unjust | |
| 51154688 | Insouciant | nonchalant, lighthearted, unconcerned | |
| 51154689 | Intransigent | uncompromising, stubborn | |
| 51154690 | Inveterate | habitual, deeply rooted or established | |
| 51154691 | Juggernaut | a massive, unstoppable object | |
| 51154692 | Lassitude | a weariness, listlessness, a state of lethargy | |
| 51154693 | Libidinous | lustful, lascivious | |
| 51154694 | Machination | scheming activity for an evil purpose | |
| 51154695 | Malfeasance | an illegal act—especially by a public official | |
| 51154696 | Martinet | one who adheres strictly to the rules | |
| 51154697 | Mendacious | dishonest, deceitful | |
| 51154698 | Myopia | nearsightendness, lacking foresight | |
| 51154699 | Naïve | charmingly gullible | |
| 51154700 | Nepotism | showing favoritism to friends or family, as in granting positions in jobs or politics | |
| 51154701 | Nihilism | the belief that there are no values or morals in the universe, that existence is senseless or useless | |
| 51154702 | Noisome | harmful, unwholesome, stinking, putrid | |
| 51154703 | Obdurate | stubborn | |
| 51154704 | Obsequious | fawning, subservient, servile | |
| 51154705 | Onerous | burdensome, oppressive, troublesome | |
| 51154706 | Onus | burden, blame, obligation | |
| 51154707 | Opprobrious | damning, extremely critical, disgraceful | |
| 51154708 | Panacea | a remedy that cures everything | |
| 51154709 | Paradigm | a model or example | |
| 51154710 | Philistine | a smugly insensitive and ignorant person who has no knowledge of intellectual or artistic objects | |
| 51154711 | Phlegmatic | calm, indifferent, not easily aroused | |
| 51154712 | Plebeian | common, vulgar, low class | |
| 51154713 | Pluralism | a society in which distinct groups function together but retain their identities | |
| 51154714 | Portent | an omen, a sign nor something coming, a foreshadowing | |
| 51154715 | Probity | honesty, uprightness | |
| 51154716 | Prurient | lascivious, have lustful thoughts or desires | |
| 51154717 | Punctilious | meticulously attentive to detail, exacting | |
| 51154718 | Recidivism | the act of repeating an offense | |
| 51154719 | Redoubtable | formidable, fearsome, deserving of respect | |
| 51154720 | Remuneration | payment, recompense | |
| 51154721 | Rife | widespread, abounding, occurring frequently | |
| 51154722 | Ruminate | to muse upon | |
| 51154723 | Sallow | sickly, greenish-yellow | |
| 51154724 | Saturnine | sullen, gloomy, depressed | |
| 51154725 | Sententious | preachy, pompous, using wise sayings excessively | |
| 51154726 | Slatternly | squalid, slovenly, foul, unclean | |
| 51154727 | Somnolent | drowsy, sleepy | |
| 51154728 | Spate | a sudden outburst | |
| 51154729 | Stalwart | unwavering, robust, sturdily built | |
| 51154730 | Tendentious | advancing a point of view, biased | |
| 51154731 | Timorous | fearful, easily frightened | |
| 51154732 | Umbrage | displeasure or resentment | |
| 51154733 | Vagary | a whim, an unpredictable action | |
| 51154734 | Venerate | to honor, to worship, to respect | |
| 51154735 | Veracious | truthful, honest | |
| 51154736 | Vitriolic | corrosive, biting, bitterly scathing | |
| 51154737 | Wont | custom, habit |
