AP Lang : 1st semester
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| v. to swing back and forth | ||
| Adj. cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness | ||
| V. to punish, chastise, criticize severely | ||
| Adj. hard to understand or grasp | ||
| Adj. Wildly fanciful, absurd | ||
| N. comic, sometimes crude, informal verse | ||
| V. to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of | ||
| Adj. having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound | ||
| Adj. Talkative | ||
| N. the humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word intended | ||
| N. a dominant or recurring theme | ||
| Adj. having foresight | ||
| Adj. Lacking color, wan | ||
| Adj. false, spurious, of doubtful orgin | ||
| V. to put an end to | ||
| Adj. fertile, productive, fruitful | ||
| V. To deviate from the truth | ||
| Adj. corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant | ||
| Adj. Crank, ill tempered, irritable, peevish | ||
| Adj. Stubbornly defiant and resistant of authority | ||
| N. Deception or trickery | ||
| Adj. being in a dying or decaying condition | ||
| V. and N. to make a long, formal speech to sum up a speech | ||
| Adj. humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner | ||
| V. to deny, To speak or act against | ||
| N. a eulogy of expression or high praise | ||
| N. An excellent model, a typical example | ||
| Adj. boldness, rashness, audacity | ||
| N. Lofty praise, eulogistic writing | ||
| Adj Shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment | ||
| V. to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to ease without curing | ||
| Adj. Hostile, aggressive, savage | ||
| Adj. favorable to health | ||
| Adj. Hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head | ||
| V. to tolerate, to put up with something | ||
| Adj. Stingy | ||
| V. To suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely | ||
| V. to soften by soaking to cause to waste away | ||
| N. an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding | ||
| Adj. vulgar or indecent language | ||
| Adj. Wise, shrewd | ||
| Adj. careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty | ||
| N. a judge, one who decides | ||
| Adj. faithless, untrustworthy | ||
| N. wordy language, an indirect round about expression | ||
| Adj. sneaky, secret | ||
| N. a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire | ||
| Adj. readily assuming different shapes or characters | ||
| V. to rot | ||
| V. to enroll, most particularly in college | ||
| Adj. restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative | ||
| Adj. Arrogant, overbearing, condescending | ||
| V. to confuse, to deceive | ||
| Adj. Harmful | ||
| Adj. Urgent, demands prompt action | ||
| Adj. Pungent, charmingly provocative | ||
| N. A morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel | ||
| Adj. Hardworking, busy, diligent | ||
| N. extreme poverty | ||
| Adj. overly sentimental | ||
| Adj. Winding, having many curves | ||
| Adj. eating or absorbing everything feeding on both animal and vegetable substances | ||
| Adj. sweetly flowing | ||
| N. a flatterer, a self-serving yes-man | ||
| N. A disaster or violent breakdown | ||
| N. Voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink, or from doing something pleasant but not good for you | ||
| Adj. Argumentative over a point, quarrelsome | ||
| Adj. Nearness in place or time, kinship | ||
| Adj. empty, lacking intelligence | ||
| Adj. unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering | ||
| Adj. marked with thin lines or grooves | ||
| N. A beginner, a novice | ||
| N. bad breath | ||
| Adj. able to walk or move about | ||
| N. a file of documents, letters and records | ||
| Adj. native, belonging to a specific region | ||
| N. a temporary suspension or activity | ||
| Adj. Vanishing happening for the briefest moment | ||
| V. to take off (usually clothing) as a sign of greeting | ||
| V. to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate | ||
| Adj. careful, cautious, wary | ||
| Adj. Whimsical, fanciful, impulsive | ||
| V. to run at a steady, easy pace | ||
| Adj. hot-tempered, cranky | ||
| Adj. generous | ||
| V. to discern, to see something, to catch sight of | ||
| Adj. bitingly sarcastic, incisive caustic manner | ||
| Adj. a thick or sticky consistency of a liquid | ||
| V. to run counter to, to show something as false | ||
| Adj. hermit live, self-denial, austere | ||
| V. to dry out | ||
| V. to become rigid, to become set in one's ways |