AP Lang Semester 1 Vocab
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| 281348201 | palaver (n.) | idle talk or chatter; (v.) to talk idly or chat. | |
| 281348202 | slough (v.) | to treat as trivial ("to slough over"); periodically to shed the outer layer of skin ("to slough off"). | |
| 281348203 | victuals (n.) | food supplies, provisions. | |
| 281348204 | stanchion (n.) | an upright bar, beam, or support. | |
| 281348205 | skiff (n.) | any boat small enough for rowing or sailing by one person. | |
| 281348206 | prevarication (n) | lie, falsehood. | |
| 281348207 | fantods (n.) | state of nervous irritability; a fit. | |
| 281348208 | scow (n) | flat-bottomed boat with a rectangular hull and sloping ends; an old clumsy; barge. | |
| 281348209 | caper (n.) | a frivolous, carefree activity; (v.) to prance, gambol, leap, or skip about. | |
| 281348210 | languish (v.) | to be or to become weak, to lose vigor, to pine with desire and longing. | |
| 281348211 | ponderous (adj.) | heavy, massive, unwieldy, awkward. | |
| 281348212 | rapscallion (n) | rascal, rogue, scamp. | |
| 281348213 | contumely (n.) | contemptuous, humiliating treatment; a humiliating insult. | |
| 281348214 | soliloquy (n.) | the act of talking while or as if alone. | |
| 281348215 | obsequies (n.—usually plural) | funeral rite or ceremony. | |
| 281348216 | histrionic (adj.) | overly dramatic, affected. | |
| 281348217 | towhead (n.) | a sandbar in a river, often with a stand of cottonwood trees; also a light-blond-haired person (only the first definition applies in Huck Finn). | |
| 281348218 | acquiescence (n) | the act or condition of acquiescing or giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without objection; compliance (usually fol. by to or in): acquiescence to his boss's demands. Syn: acceptance, accession, approval, assent, compliance. | |
| 281348219 | platitude (n) | a flat, dull, or trite remark, esp. one uttered as if it were fresh or profound; the quality or state of being flat, dull, or trite: the platitude of most political oratory. Syn: cliché, truism. | |
| 281348220 | 20 drudgery (n) | menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work. | |
| 281348221 | napalm (n) | a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc.; (v): to drop bombs containing napalm on (troops, a city, or the like). | |
| 281348222 | bedlam (n) | a scene of wild uproar and confusion; disorder, tumult, chaos, clamor, turmoil, commotion, pandemonium. | |
| 281348223 | catharsis (n) | the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, esp. through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music. A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear, described by Aristotle as an effect of tragic drama on its audience. | |
| 281348224 | condolence (n) | Sympathy with a person who has experienced pain, grief, or misfortune: paid a visit of condolence to the grieving family. Expression of sympathy with a person who is suffering sorrow, misfortune, or grief; commiseration. | |
| 281348225 | rapport (n) | Relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity. Syn: fellowship, camaraderie, compatibility. | |
| 281348226 | rectitude (n) | rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue: the rectitude of her motive; Correctness: rectitude of judgment. Syn: integrity, probity. | |
| 281348227 | impecunious (adj.) | having little or no money; penniless, destitute, poor, poverty-stricken. | |
| 281348228 | emolument (n) | compensation as fees or tips; wages. | |
| 281348229 | ascetic (adj) | austere; rigorously abstinent; monk-like. | |
| 281348230 | contumaciously (adv) | rebelliously to the extreme; disobediently. | |
| 281348231 | efficacy (n) | effectiveness | |
| 281348232 | prurient (adj.) | having lustful desires; causing lasciviousness or lust. | |
| 281348233 | similitude (n) | resemblance; affinity. | |
| 281348234 | palliate (v) | alleviate, mitigate. | |
| 281348235 | abeyance (n) | temporary inactivity, cessation or suspension. | |
| 281348236 | somniferous (adj) | sleep-inducing, soporific. | |
| 281348237 | presentiments (n) | foreboding; feeling that something is about to happen, especially something evil. | |
| 281348238 | abstruse (adj.) | hard to understand; recondite, esoteric. | |
| 281348239 | scurrilous (adj.) | grossly or obscenely abusive. | |
| 281348240 | auspicious (adj.) | promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable. | |
| 281348241 | abase (v) | humiliate; degrade. | |
| 281348242 | propinquity (n) | proximity; kinship; nearness of time or place or relation. | |
| 281348243 | sedulous (adj.) | diligent in character or application; persevering | |
| 281348244 | deleterious (adj.) | harmful, injurious. | |
| 281348245 | asperity (n) | severity; acrimony; harshness of tone; hardship; difficulty; rigor. | |
| 281348246 | scintillating (adj.) | emitting sparks; animated or witty; sparkling, as in stars. | |
| 281348247 | malevolent (adj.) | malicious, injurious. | |
| 281348248 | effete (adj.) | lacking in wholesome vigor; degenerate; decadent; worn out; unable to reproduce, sterile. | |
| 281348249 | misanthropy (n) | hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind. | |
| 281348250 | expiate (v) | atone; make amends. | |
| 281348251 | effluence (n) | emanation; something that flows out. | |
| 281348252 | inured (adj:) | accustomed, habituated. | |
| 281348253 | mollify (v) | pacify, appease. | |
| 281348254 | phlegmatic (adj) | not easily excited to action or display of emotion; having calm or apathetic temper. | |
| 281348255 | vicissitude (n) | variation; mutation. | |
| 281348256 | importunately (adv.) | overly urgently; annoyingly. | |
| 281348257 | contiguous (adj.) | touching, near, adjacent in time. | |
| 281348258 | comport (v): | trans.--to bear or conduct oneself, behave; intrans.-- to be in agreement or harmony (usually followed by "with"). | |
| 281348259 | obeisance (n) | a movement of the body expressing deep regret or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture; deference or homage. | |
| 281348260 | effervescence (n) | vivaciousness, liveliness. | |
| 281348261 | dell (n) | vale; wooded valley. | |
| 281348262 | audacity (n) | insolence; shameless boldness. | |
| 281348263 | apotheosis (n) | the elevation of a person to the rank of god; the ideal example--epitome, quintessence. | |
| 281348264 | mien (n) | bearing, demeanor. | |
| 281348265 | necromancer (n) | invoker of the dead; one who engages in witchcraft and the black arts. | |
| 281348266 | nugatory (adj.) | trifling, worthless, futile. | |
| 281348267 | dearth (n) | scarcity | |
| 281348268 | mountebank (n) | charleton, quack; a phony, pretender, or fraud. | |
| 281348269 | filch (v) | steal, pilfer. | |
| 281348270 | iniquity (n) | a gross injustice; wicked act or sin. | |
| 281348271 | ignominy (n) | shameful disgrace, dishonor, or humiliation. | |
| 281348272 | amenable (adj.) | agreeable, tractable. | |
| 281348273 | sallow (adj.) | of a sickly yellowish color; (v): to make sallow. | |
| 281348274 | anomalous (adj.) | irregular, abnormal; unusual, inconsistent. | |
| 281348275 | lateral (adj.) | of or pertaining to the side; situated at, proceeding from, or directed to a side ("a lateral view"); pertaining to or entailing a position, office, etc., that is different but equivalent or roughly equivalent in status, as distinguished from a promotion or demotion("a lateral move"). | |
| 281348276 | succulent (adj.) | juicy; rich in desirable qualities. | |
| 281348277 | deprecate (v.) | to express earnest disapproval of or protest against; to belittle. | |
| 281348278 | defile (v) | to make foul or dirty; to sully or desecrate. | |
| 281348279 | font (n.) | receptacle for water (holy water); assortment of type; a productive source ("a font of wisdom"). | |
| 281348280 | edified (v) | to instruct or benefit, especially morally; to enlighten. | |
| 281348281 | neophyte (n) | novice, beginner. | |
| 281348282 | concubine (n) | a secondary wife; a woman who co-habits with a man to whom she is not legally married. | |
| 281348283 | dint (n.) | force, power ("by dint of her imagination"); to make a dent, to impress or drive with force. | |
| 281348284 | scapegrace (n) | a persistent rascal | |
| 281348285 | sententiously (adv.) | self-righteously; excessively moralizing. | |
| 281348286 | antediluvian (adj.) | "before the flood"—literally; very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated. | |
| 281348287 | avant garde (n) | the advance group in a field, especially in the arts, whose works are unorthodox or experimental; (adj.): unorthodox, daring, radical. | |
| 281348288 | verdant (adj.) | green with vegetation; of the color green; inexperienced or unsophisticated. | |
| 281348289 | girth (n/v) | circumference, size, bulk; band or girdle; to encircle. | |
| 281348290 | mettle (n) | courage, fortitude; disposition, temperament. | |
| 281348291 | supplicate (v) | to entreat; to petition humbly. | |
| 281348292 | feint (n/v) | a movement made to deceive an adversary; an assumed or feigned appearance; to simulate. | |
| 281348293 | hapless (adj.) | unlucky, luckless, unfortunate. | |
| 281348294 | fetid (adj.) | noisome, malodorous, rank, fetid; injurious to health, noxious. | |
| 281348295 | rank (adj.—only need to know the adjective forms for our purposes) | (1) growing with luxuriousness; (2) having an offensive odor. | |
| 281348296 | solicitude (n) | attitude of deep concern, solicitousness. | |
| 281348297 | florid (adj.) | reddish, ruddy, rosy; flowery, ornate. | |
| 281348298 | dolorous (adj.) | full of or causing pain; grievous or mournful. | |
| 281348299 | incontinent (adj.) | uncontrolled, lacking in moderation, unceasing or unrestrained; unable to control bodily functions. | |
| 281348300 | concupiscence (n) | lust, sexual desire. | |
| 281348301 | indigenous (adj.) | native; innate, inherent. | |
| 281348302 | profligate (adj.) | utterly immoral; recklessly prodigal or extravagant. | |
| 281348303 | prodigal (adj.) | wastefully extravagant; profligate. | |
| 281348304 | apex (n) | highest point; vertex, summit. | |
| 281348305 | nadir (n.) | lowest point; point of greatest adversity or despair. | |
| 281348306 | exhort (v) | to urge, advise or caution earnestly; to give urgent advice to. | |
| 281348307 | schismatic (adj) | of or pertaining to disunion; one who advocates schism or disunion. | |
| 281348308 | chasm (n) | a gorge, a gap, or a wide divergence of opinion. | |
| 281348309 | unalloyed (adj.) | unadulterated, pure. | |
| 281348310 | boon (n/adj) | blessing, benefit; a favor sought; jolly, jovial—" a boon companion." | |
| 281348311 | salutary (adj.) | wholesome, healthful. | |
| 281348312 | pulverize (v) | to reduce to dust or powder; to demolish. | |
| 281348313 | turbid (adj.) | clouded, opaque, obscured; confused, muddled. | |
| 281348314 | premonition (n) | presentiment. | |
| 281348315 | admonition (n) | counsel, advice, or caution. | |
| 281348316 | fecund (adj.) | prolific, fruitful; very productive or creative intellectually. | |
| 281348317 | opprobrium (n) | reproach, scorn, disgrace incurred by shameful conduct. | |
| 281348318 | copious (adj.) | plentiful, abundant. | |
| 281348319 | propensity (n) | natural inclination; proclivity. | |
| 281348320 | predilection (n) | preference, liking, partiality. | |
| 281348321 | penchant (n) | strong inclination, predilection, or propensity. | |
| 281348322 | anathema (n) | a curse; a person or thing who is loathed or damned. | |
| 281348323 | insipid (adj.) | without stimulating qualities; vapid; without flavor; bland. | |
| 281348324 | vapid (adj.) | lacking spirit or interest; dull; lacking sharpness or flavor, flavorless. | |
| 281348325 | vacuous (adj.) | empty; lacking intelligence; purposeless, idle. | |
| 281348326 | adjunct (n) | something added to another but not essential to it; assistant. | |
| 281348327 | rancor (n) | bitter resentment, ill-will, malice. | |
| 281348328 | recondite (adj.) | esoteric, arcane, obscure, abstruse; understood by few. | |
| 281348329 | fatuous (adj.) | foolish, inane, silly. | |
| 281348330 | esoteric (adj.) | abstruse, recondite. | |
| 281348331 | vituperation (n) | verbal abuse or castigation; violent condemnation. | |
| 281348332 | pulchritude (n) | physical beauty. | |
| 281348333 | pachyderm (n) | any large, thick-skinned, hoofed mammal, like an elephant, hippo, or rhino. | |
| 281348334 | compunction (n) | contrition, remorse; qualm, uneasiness about an action. | |
| 281348335 | chagrin (n) | feeling of vexation marked by disappointment or humiliation; (v): to upset or humiliate. | |
| 281348336 | diffidence (n) | timidity, lack of confidence. | |
| 281348337 | discern (v) | to recognize or apprehend; to distinguish or discriminate. | |
| 281348338 | demur (v/n): | to object, take exception; an objection raised. | |
| 281348339 | pastoral (adj.) | rural, rustic; of or pertaining to shepherds or herding; pertaining to a pastor. | |
| 281348340 | upbraid (v) | to find fault with or reproach severely; to censure. | |
| 281348341 | perusal (n) | reading with thoroughness or care, detail, or in a random way. | |
| 281348342 | ungainly (adj.) | awkward, clumsy. | |
| 281348343 | fastidious (adj.) | excessively critical or demanding; requiring or taking great care or delicacy. | |
| 281348344 | ceasefire (n) | truce | |
| 281348345 | ostensible (adj.) | outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended. | |
| 281348346 | composite (adj./n/v) | made up of disparate or separate parts or elements ("a composite drawing"); (n): a compound; a picture, photo, or the like that combines several pictures; (v): to make a composite of. | |
| 281348347 | biennial (adj.) | happening every two years; lasting two years. | |
| 281348348 | oxymoron (n) | figure of speech that uses seeming contradictions. | |
| 281348349 | wanderlust (n) | desire for travel. | |
| 281348350 | ingenuous (adj.) | candid, sincere, naïve. |