6642914669 | Diaspora (Unit 1) | Spread of people away from their homeland | 0 | |
6642948446 | Egalitarian (Unit 1) | Equal society | 1 | |
7279438622 | Ephemeral (Unit 1) | Comes and goes away quickly | 2 | |
7279439536 | Hegemony (Unit 1) | Influence over or dominance of | 3 | |
7279441502 | Patriarchal (Unit 1) | Society in which men are in charge and women are protected | 4 | |
7279491892 | Sagacious (Unit 1) | Wise | 5 | |
7279491893 | Stratified (Unit 1) | Leveled | 6 | |
7279493038 | Ascetic (Unit 1) | not many luxuries | 7 | |
7587032921 | Laconic (Unit 2) | Silent, disinclined to speak | 8 | |
7587036778 | Ubiquity (Unit 2) | Seemingly everywhere | 9 | |
7614792749 | Apocryphal (Unit 2) | May or may not be true, but it is still widely believed | 10 | |
7614913158 | Sericulture (Unit 2) | All technology having to do with the production of silk | 11 | |
7615017081 | Capricious (Unit 2) | Fickle, easily changed, random | 12 | |
7615021582 | Auspicious (Unit 2) | Indicating a favorable outcome | 13 | |
7615026961 | Epicurean (Unit 2) | Luxurious | 14 | |
7615029427 | Dichotomy (Unit 2) | 2 opposites (false is limited) | 15 | |
7615846210 | Conduit (Unit 2) | Anything that lets something flow | 16 | |
7744900517 | Avarice (Unit 3) | Excessive and insatiable greed | 17 | |
7744909466 | Compulsory (Unit 3) | Required/Mandatory | 18 | |
7744916158 | Jizya (Unit 3) | Tax non-Muslims must pay | 19 | |
7744921058 | Martyr (Unit 3) | Someone that dies for their faith/cause | 20 | |
7744925797 | Mercenary (Unit 3) | Military troops that fight for money not loyalty (Usually used in empires in decline) | 21 | |
7744929608 | Nascent (Unit 3) | In the very beginning stage of... | 22 | |
7744933560 | Tributary (Unit 3) | Lesser power paying money and/or respect to a higher power (Smaller river feeds into a larger river) | 23 | |
7894318062 | Byzantine | Needlessly complicated | 24 | |
7894318063 | Corpulent | Really big | 25 | |
7894320971 | Emporium | Warehouse, shopping districts on the coast of India | 26 | |
7894320972 | Facilitate | To assist | 27 | |
7894321390 | Heretic | Against the faith of the majority | 28 | |
7894326175 | Impetus | Motivating factor or a driving force | 29 | |
7894326176 | Preclude | To prevent from happening | 30 | |
7894348890 | Xenophobic | Fear of foreigners | 31 | |
8076824700 | Bellicose | Liking to or wanting to fight/argue; Violent | 32 | |
8076827513 | Consternation | Anger/Frustration and Confusion | 33 | |
8076883135 | Magnanimous | Kindhearted and generous | 34 | |
8076885610 | Perfunctory | Going through the motions without any real feeling | 35 | |
8076885611 | Precedent | Decision or action that determines future decision or actions | 36 | |
8257388265 | Usurp | take a position that is not rightfully yours | 37 | |
8583462916 | Circumnavigation | Navigate the world | 38 | |
8583462917 | Epiphany | Certain realization | 39 | |
8583465846 | Futile | Unsuccessful | 40 | |
8583468143 | Indulgences | pardon sold by catholic church to reduce one's punishment | 41 | |
8583470442 | Rubenesque | Full figured/ attractive woman | 42 | |
8803754285 | Acuman | Any sort of skills at a high level | 43 | |
8803768572 | Hubris | Excessive self confidence | 44 | |
8803771445 | Meteoric | Rise that happens so fast that often it is short lived | 45 | |
8803774726 | Precipitous | Extreme, rapid fall | 46 | |
8803783417 | Prodigious | Intensely respected or remarkable | 47 | |
9048313260 | Cogent | Clear, logical, and convincing | 48 | |
9048325165 | Counterintuitive | contrary to common-sense expectation (but often nevertheless true) | 49 | |
9048340695 | Harbinger | A person or thing that indicates that something is going to happen soon, especiially bad | 50 | |
9048370617 | Ostensibly | apparently, but perhaps not actually | 51 | |
9048397093 | Superfluous | Excessive, more than needed | 52 | |
9146023225 | Extraterritoriality | the state of being exempted from the jurisdiction of local law, usually as the result of diplomatic negotiations | 53 | |
9146038384 | Foment | Instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action) | 54 | |
9146054250 | Duplicitous | Using dishonesty, deceitful | 55 | |
9146062719 | Secular | Attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis | 56 | |
9146073218 | Subjugate | Bring under domination or control, especially by conquest | 57 |
AP World History Vocab Flashcards
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