7961365294 | anachronism | a person or thing that is chronologically out of place | 0 | |
7961365295 | apocryphal | not accepted as genuine or authentic | 1 | |
7961374655 | assimilate | to absorb a minority or conquered culture into the majority or conquering culture, at times so completely that the absorbed culture ceases to exist | 2 | |
7961374656 | dogmatic | expressing personal opinions or beliefs as if they are unquestionably correct and can not be doubted | 3 | |
7961378836 | ecclesiastical | relating to a church or religious organization | 4 | |
7961389291 | eclectic | selected from different doctrines methods or styles | 5 | |
7961389292 | epiphany | a moment of sudden insight or understanding | 6 | |
7961393061 | euphemism | a nice or socially acceptable way of saying something unpleasant, harsh, demeaning or crude | 7 | |
7961393062 | arbitrary | a random decision or act not based on law or logic and often associated with a tyrannical exercise of power | 8 | |
7961400416 | exacerbate | to make a bad situation worse | 9 | |
7961403940 | hubris | arrogant conceit, confidence, and pride | 10 | |
7961403941 | iconoclast | one who attacks and seeks to disprove cherished traditions or popular beliefs and ideas' a skeptic, renegade, cultural rebel | 11 | |
7961403942 | mystical | a spiritual, religious or supernatural meaning or occurrence that can not be known, verified or experienced though the physical senses | 12 | |
7961407702 | ostentatious | showy display of wealth or power | 13 | |
7961411824 | ironic | happening in the opposite way of what is expected often with an element of mockery or bemusement from an observer's viewpoint | 14 | |
7961411825 | secular | not related to religion or a church; worldly | 15 | |
7961414845 | substantiate | to prove or verify | 16 | |
7961414846 | tenable | capable of being defended | 17 | |
7961419452 | virulent | extremely harmful, poisonous, deadly; bitterly vicious and hostile | 18 | |
7961419453 | xenophobia | fear and hatered of foreigners, strangers or anything from outside one's own village or region | 19 |
AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards
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