208988302 | Abdicate | To relinquish power or responsibility formally | |
208988303 | Advocate | To recommend, one who supports or defends a cause | |
208988304 | Ambivalence | The existance of mutually conflicting emotions or thoughts | |
208988305 | Apotheosis | An ideal example | |
208988306 | Augment | To make or become greater | |
208988307 | Bequeath | To leave or give by will, to pass on | |
208988308 | Capitulate | To surrender under conditional terms | |
208988309 | Choleric | Easil angered; bad tempered | |
208988310 | Concise | Short and to the point | |
208988311 | Cryptic | enigmatic | |
208988312 | Delineate | To draw or the outline of; to represent in words | |
208988313 | Devoid | Utterly lacking | |
208988314 | Dismantle | To divest of equiptment; to tear down | |
208988315 | Duplicity | Deliberate deception | |
208988316 | Embellish | 1. To make beautiful by ornamentation 2. To add fanciful details | |
208988317 | Equivocal | 1. Deliberately amiguous or misleading 2. Questionable, dubious | |
208988318 | Expedient | 1. Appropriate to a given purpose 2. A means to an end | |
208988319 | Fervor | 1. Emotional intenisty; arder 2. Intense heat | |
208988320 | Fulsome | Offensivly insecure or excessive | |
208988321 | Hackneyed | Grown stale through overuse | |
208988322 | Ideology | A body of ideas characteristic of a person or group | |
208988323 | Impetuous | Sudden action or emotion; impulsive | |
208988324 | Icrement | An increase, something added or gained | |
208988325 | Insipid | Lacking flavor; tastless-dull, lacking interest | |
209265937 | Irascible | Easily angered; hot tempered | |
209265938 | Lethargic | Drousiness, indifference, apathy | |
209265939 | Maudlin | Effusivly or tearfully sentimental | |
209265940 | Munificent | Generous in giving; lavish | |
209265941 | Obstreperous | Noisy and unruly; especially in defiance | |
209265942 | Paucity | Smallness in quantity or number | |
212160845 | Petulant | Characterized by fitful ill humor; irritable | |
212160846 | Precept | A general rule of conduct or procedure | |
212160847 | Prolific | Producing offspring or fruit in great numbers: abunduntly productive | |
212160848 | Quixotic | Idealistic in a romantic or impractical way | |
212160849 | Relic | Something that has survived from a past culture or period | |
212160850 | Residual | Of, relating to, or left over as a residue | |
212160851 | Sanguine | 1. The color of blood, red, ruddy 2. Cheerfully confident; optimistic | |
212160852 | Skeptical | Habitually doubting or questioning | |
213617932 | Steadfast | 1. Not moving; fixed 2. Not faltering; controlled 3. Firm in conviction | |
213617933 | Superfluous | Being beyond what is necessary | |
213617934 | Tawdry | Cheap and garish; gaudy | |
213617935 | Trepidation | Great alarm or dread | |
213617936 | Unobtrusive | Not noticeable | |
213617937 | Veracity | Devotion to the truth; accuracy | |
213617938 | Vitiate | 1. To impair the quality or value of 2. To corrupt morally 3. to invalidate |
AP Lit Vocab 1
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