8751997375 | Abet (v) | to encourage or support by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing | 0 | |
8751997376 | Affinity (n) | a natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea, | 1 | |
8751997377 | Aloof (adj) | cool; detached; distant; standoffish; snobbish; haughty; disdainful | 2 | |
8751997378 | Animosity (n) | a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action | 3 | |
8751997379 | Censorious (adj) | severely critical; faultfinding; carping | 4 | |
8751997380 | Convocation (n) | a group of people gather in answer to a summons; an assembly | 5 | |
8751997381 | Depreciation (n) | decrease in value due to wear and tear, decay, decline, in price, etc. | 6 | |
8751997382 | Dogged (adj) | persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious | 7 | |
8751997383 | Fatalistic (adj) | the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate | 8 | |
8751997384 | Frenetic (adj) | frantic(- desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.); frenzied | 9 | |
8751997385 | Hackneyed (adj) | made commonplace or trite; stale; banal | 10 | |
8751997386 | Ineffable (adj) | incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible | 11 | |
8751997387 | Infallible (adj) | unfailing in effectiveness or operation; certain | 12 | |
8751997388 | Introspective (adj) | the act or process of looking into oneself | 13 | |
8751997389 | Jingoistic (adj) | the spirit, policy, or practice of jingoes; a person who professes his or her patriotism loudly and excessively, favoring vigilant preparedness for war and an aggressive foreign policy; bellicose chauvinism | 14 | |
8751997390 | Labyrinthine (adj) | complicated; tortuous | 15 | |
8751997391 | Nefarious (adj) | extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous | 16 | |
8751997392 | Ostentatious (adj) | characterized by or given to pretentious or conspicuous show in an attempt to impress others | 17 | |
8751997393 | Parochial (adj) | very limited or narrow in scope or outlook; provincial 2. of, relating to or financially supported by one or more church parishes | 18 | |
8751997394 | Paucity (n) | smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness | 19 | |
8751997395 | Pervasive (adj) | spread throughout | 20 | |
8751997396 | Pharisaism (n) | rigid observance of external forms of religion or conduct without genuine piety; hypocrisy | 21 | |
8751997398 | Preternatural (adj) | out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal | 22 | |
8751997399 | Rambunctious (adj) | difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous | 23 | |
8751997400 | Rote (adj) | routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure | 24 | |
8751997401 | Rustic (adj) | simple, artless, or unsophisticated | 25 | |
8751997402 | Sanctimonious (adj) | making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness, etc. | 26 | |
8751997403 | Sustenance (n) | means of sustaining(- to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.) life; nourishment | 27 | |
8751997404 | Vacuous (adj) | expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid | 28 | |
8751997405 | Venal (adj) | willing to sell or accept influence, especially in return for a bribe; mercenary | 29 |
AP Language & Composition: Vocabulary #3 Flashcards
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