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AP Language Arts Final Vocabulary Lesson 12

This is the vocabulary definitions for lesson 12

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Boldness, without shame
Distinguished from the rest of the group by undesireable qualities
To draw out of or forth, that is, to bring to light; to draw out against inclination
An alchemist's substance to change metal into gold or to prolong life indefinately; hence, a penaca or a cure, the essence or anything in its purest form
Wasted or reduced in weight by starvation or disease
To issue forth, as from a source
Salary or profits derived from an occupation or office
To try to equal or excel
To heighten or add to the qualities or something as, to enhance to beauty of a room
A riddle or puzzle; figuratively, a situation difficult to understand; also a mysterous baffling person
One who is extremely fastidious in his tastes or pleasures, especially in matters of food and drink
A memorial statement statement engraved, or designed to be engraved, on a tombstone
An expression (usually an adjective and a noun) that denotates so characteristic or significant a quality of the person or thing described that one part of the expression always suggests the other; as "rosy fingered dawn" or "Alexander the Great"
1. A summary or a breif condensation of the leading points of a book or article 2. A part that is typical of the whole
Impartial, Just
Being capable of double or doubtful interpretation, hence questionable or uncertain
To eat into or wear away slowly; as, the action or water on rocks
Of profound learning
Understood, or intended for understanding, by only a select initiated few, hence, a secret
To cause to seperate, divide, or turn away

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