AP Lang Vocab List #1
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| v. cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money | ||
| n. an action designed to confuse or mislead, a trick | ||
| n. a device used to soften, stop, or deaden a sound adj. silent v. to muffle or silence something | ||
| v. to weaken in energy or enthusiam | ||
| n. a person's characteristic, sometimes unique, way of walking | ||
| v. to stop overflow, flood, or often, a gush of blood from a wound | ||
| adj. very dry; usu. describing a climate, though occasionally used in reference to a dull topic or manner of presentation | ||
| n. an unrefined, insensitive, common person; a Philistine | ||
| n. an older term for a poet or singer; Homer composed, memorized, and sang his epics, The Iliad and the Odyssey; Shakespeare is often called "The Bard of Avon" (remember -- he wrote his plays in verse) | ||
| adj. self-satisfied; condescending; acting superior to others | ||
| v. to walk or continue a task in a determined but weary manner | ||
| v. to luxuriate in the warm glow of sun; figuratively, to soak in the warm glow of success, or praise | ||
| n. a period of calm, esp. amid relative turbulence v. to calm; to soothe into sleep or relaxation | ||
| n. a character, often minor, inserted in a literary work. A foil's personal traits help underscore important, usually directly opposite traits of the protagonist. v. to spoil someone's plan | ||
| v. to hesitate; to shy away | ||
| v. to tear, usu. with mournful emotion or violence | ||
| v. to fool someone n. one who has been fooled; one easily fooled | ||
| v. to praise | ||
| n. a slow-witted person | ||
| n. a piercing remark |