251437055 | Abstract | Considered apart from concrete existence | |
251437056 | Aggrandize | To increase the scope of: extend To make greater in power, influence To exaggerate...aggrandizement | |
251437057 | Animosity | Deep seated hostility: enmity | |
251437058 | Arduous | Demanding much effort, difficult | |
251437059 | Autonomy | To have independence | |
251437060 | Bovine | Of or resembling an ox Sluggish: dull | |
251437061 | Catalyst | a substance that alters and especially increases the rate at which a chemical reaction takes place one that precipitates process or event | |
251437062 | Circumspect | aware and needful of consequences: prudent | |
251437063 | Contentious | controversial rivalry:competition an assertion | |
251437064 | Dearth | scarcity, lack | |
251437065 | Deprecate | to show disapproval of to belittle, depreciate | |
251437066 | Didactic | intended to instruct morally instructive inclined to teach | |
251437067 | Disposition | temperament habitual tendency | |
251437068 | Eclectic | consisting or components from source or style | |
251437069 | Endemic | widespread in or peculiar to a particular area/people | |
251437070 | Eulogy | a speech honoring a person or thing | |
251437071 | Expunge | to remove or erase, delete | |
251437072 | Flagrant | conspicuously bad or offensive, outrageous | |
251437073 | Garbled | distorted or scrambled unintelligible | |
251437074 | Hegemony | dominance, especially one nation over another | |
251437075 | Imminent | about to happen, impending | |
251437076 | Impugn | to attack as false cast doubt on | |
251437077 | Inert | not able to move or act slow to move or act: sluggish displaying no chemical properties | |
260179585 | insurgent | rising in insurrection against established authority: rebelling | |
263927524 | kinetic | of, pertaining to, or produced by motion | |
263927525 | loquacious | too talkative | |
263927526 | meticulous | very careful, precise excessively concerned w/ details | |
263927527 | nefarious | wicked, despicable | |
263927528 | opulent | having great wealth grandiose, extravagant | |
263927529 | peerless | without equal, matchless | |
263927530 | placate | to mollify yield concessions | |
263927531 | predilection | a natural or habitual preference | |
263927532 | proselytize | to convert from one religion, doctrine, or party | |
266800629 | raze | to demolish, tear down | |
266800630 | renaissance | revival rebirth. Also 14th 16th c revival of art/literature | |
266800631 | reticent | reluctant to speak freely | |
266800632 | savory | characterized by a particular taste, smell or quality. tasty | |
266800633 | sordid | dirty filthy marked by moral degradation | |
266800634 | stultifying | 1 making ineffectual/useless 2 causing to appear stupid illogical dull | |
266800635 | surreptitious | made done or acting secret/ stealthy | |
266800636 | tenet | a basic principle, doctrine, or dogma | |
266800637 | turpitude | vileness, depravity as in "moral turpitude" | |
266800638 | untenable | not capable of being sustained or defended | |
266800639 | viable | capable of living as an infant capable of living and developing effective or successful | |
266800640 | volatile | evaporating readily changeable especially fickle, given to violence |
AP Lit Vocab 4
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