Being or exhibiting an omen, portentous; especially: foreboding or foreshadowing evil, inauspicious | ||
1. Indicating small size and sometimes the state or quality of being familiarly known, loveable, pitiable, or contemptible 2. Exceptionally or notably small, tiny | ||
Of, relating to, or experienced thorough hearing | ||
1.a. An event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development b. a memorable event or date 2.a. an extended period of time usually characterized by a distinctive development or by a memorable series of events 3. An instant of time or a date selected as a point of reference (as in astronomy) | ||
1.a. Band, group b. a group of individuals having a statistical factor (as age or class membership) in common in a demographic study 2. Companion, colleague | ||
Pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity | ||
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group | ||
1.a. Anxiety arising from awareness of guilt b. Distress of mind over an anticipated action or result 2. A twinge of misgiving, scruple | ||
1. The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings , thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also the capacity for this | ||
1. Bloodthirsty, murderous 2. Attended by bloodshed, bloody 3. Consisting of blood | ||
1.a. easily nauseated, queasy b. Affected with nausea 2.a. Excessively fastidious or scrupulous in conduct or belief b. Easily offended or disgusted | ||
Not to be avoided or evaded, necessary | ||
1. Relationship by marriage 2.a. Sympathy marked by community of interest, kinship b. an attraction or liking for something c. A person of the opposite sex having a particular attraction for one 3.a. likeness based on relationship or causal connection b. relation between biological groups involving resemblance in structural plan and indicating a common origin | ||
1. To lessen the intensity of extremeness of 2. To preside over or act as chairman of 3. To become less violent, severe, or intense | ||
1. To actively second and encourage (as an activity or plan) 2. To assist or support in the achievement of a purpose | ||
1.a. Rapid and repeated production of new parts or of offspring b. a growth formed in this way | ||
distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure | ||
1. A person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power 2. A person who believes in, advocates, or promotes these ideas; one who uses violent means to overthrow the established order | ||
1. Marked by withdrawal from society; solitary 2. A person who leads a secluded or solitary life | ||
1. Liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior; something so given 2. Generosity | ||
1. Variegated in color 2. Composed of diverse often incongruous elements | ||
1. Literary and dramatic propriety; fitness 2. Propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance 3. Orderliness 4. The conventions of polite behavior |
AP Lang Vocab Week Nine
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