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Mrs. Morgan AP Lang First Semester Vocab

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A temporary suspension of activity.
Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink, or from doing something pleasant but not good for you.
Hard to understand or grasp.
To suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely.
Cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness.
Able to walk or move about.
False, spurious, of doubtful origin.
A judge, one who decides.
Hermit-like, self-denial, austere.
Hardworking, busy, diligent.
To run counter to, to show something as false.
To tolerate, to put up with something.
Whimsical, fanciful, impulsive.
To punish, chastise, criticize severely.
Careful, cautious, wary.
Deception or trickery.
Wildly fanciful, absurd.
Wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression.
Argumentative over a point, quarrelsome.
A disaster or violent breakdown.
Harmful.
To discern, to see something, to catch sight of.
To dry out.
To confuse, deceive.
To take off(usually clothing) as a sign of greeting.
Comic, sometimes crude, informal verse.
A file of documents, letters and records.
Having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound.
A eulogy or expression of high praise.
Native, belonging to a specific region.
To glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of.
Vanishing, happening for the briefest moment.
An excellent model, a typical example.
Urgent, demands prompt action.
To rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate.
Humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manor.
Fertile, productive, fruitful.
A rapid outburst, spray of gunfire.
To deny, to speak or act against.
Talkative.
Bad breath.
Hot-tempered, cranky.
A dominant or recurring theme.
An embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding.
To run at a steady, easy pace.
To soften by soaking, to cause to waste away.
The humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word intended.
To enroll, most particularly in college.
Overly sentimental.
Sweetly flowing.
Bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner.
Being in a dying or decaying condition.
Generous.
A beginner, a novice.
UNnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering.
Eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable substances.
To swing back and forth.
To become rigid, to become set in one's ways.
To hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to ease without curing.
Lacking color, wan.
Lofty praise, eulogistic writing.
Stingy.
Extreme poverty.
Faithless, untrustworthy.
Careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty.
To make a long, formal speech, to sum up a speech.
Shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment.
Cranky, ill-tempered, irritable, peevish.
Pungent, charmingly provocative.
Having foresight.
To deviate from the truth.
Corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant.
Nearness in place or time, kinship.
Readily assuming different shapes or characters.
To rot.
Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority.
Hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head.
A morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel.
Restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative.
Vulgar or indecent language.
Wise, shrewd.
Favorable to health.
To put an end to.
Winding, having many curves.
Marked with thin lines or grooves.
Arrogant, overbearing, condescending.
Sneaky, secret.
A flatterer, a self-serving yes-man.
Boldness, rashness, audacity.
Hostile, aggressive, savage.
Empty, lacking intelligence.
A thick or sticky consistency of a liquid.

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