AP World History Important Terms #2 Flashcards

260611738	Preponderance	a superiority in numbers or amount	1
260611739	Characterize	describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of	2
260611740	Excavate	remove the inner part or the core of	3
260611741	Decipher	read with difficulty	4
260611742	Revolutionize	change radically	5
260611743	Yield	give over	6
260611744	Sophisticated	marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel	7
260611745	Epitomizes	acts as a typical example of	8
260611746	Intermittently	in an intermittent manner	9
260611747	Commodity	articles of commerce	10
260611748	Modification	the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)	11
260611749	Punctuated	To stress or emphasize.	12
260611750	Reverence	regard with feelings of respect and reverence	13
260611751	Fostered	provided with parental care and nurture especially by a surrogate or surrogates	14
260611752	Standardized	capable of replacing or changing places with something else	15
260611753	Integrated	caused to combine or unite	16
260611754	Sponsership	Someone helps pay for a product in return for air time	17
260611755	Contemporary	belonging to the present time	18
260611756	Facilitate	physiology: increase the likelihood of (a response)	19
260611757	Precepts	rules establishing standards of conduct	20
260611758	Prevalent	encountered generally especially at the present time	21
260611759	Prominence	relative importance	22
260611760	Subordinate	rank or order as less important or consider of less value	23
260611761	Exploitation	an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)	24
260611762	Intermediaries	people or businesses that move products between producers and final users	25