AP Vocabulary Terms List 11
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73246070 | Implement | to carry out, to provide with the means of carrying out. | |
73246071 | Prudent | careful, having foresight, sensible, planning ahead. | |
73246072 | Depravity | extreme wickedness, viciousness, or corruption. | |
73246073 | Visionary | a dreamer, someone with impractical ideas about the future, someone who is very idealistic. | |
73246074 | Innate | inborn, inherent, naturally a part of. | |
73246075 | Judicious | sensible; wise; having, using, or showing good judgment. | |
73246076 | Unconscionable | unscrupulous, not controlled by conscience | |
73246077 | Corollary | a natural consequence, something that follows, a logical extension. | |
73246078 | Laconic | concise, using few words. | |
73246079 | Mentor | a special counselor or teacher, a more experienced person who helps and/or sponsors a less experienced person. | |
73246080 | Ambiguous | having more than one meaning, or open to several interpretations, and therefore confusing, not clearly defined. | |
73246081 | Exalt | to glorify or praise highly, to honor or elevate. | |
73246082 | Figurative | not literal; based on figures of speech; metaphorical. | |
73246083 | maudlin | overly sentimental, sentimental in a weak and silly way. | |
73246084 | husbandry | farming and agriculture. | |
73246085 | Exacting | demanding of perfection, difficult, requiring great skill or precision, hard to please. | |
73246086 | Philanthropy | refers to charity, to a love of mankind expressed through good deeds and helpfulness. | |
73246087 | Tentative | uncertain or experimental. | |
73246088 | Peripatetic | wandering, moving about, travelling from place to place, nomadic. | |
73246089 | Lugubrious | overly sad, sorrowful, exaggeratedly mournful, melancholy. | |
73246090 | Proprietary | ownership, especially of property. | |
73246091 | Mitigate | to make less severe, make more bearable. | |
73246092 | Sordid | filthy or dirty. | |
73246093 | Sensory | pertaining the senses or sensation. | |
73246094 | Euphemism | a gentler way of saying something. | |
73246095 | Polemic | a controversial argument. | |
73246096 | Indolent | lazy, disliking of work, idle. | |
73246097 | Ignominy | deep disgrace, public shame or the loss of one's good name. | |
73246098 | Advocate | to support, to speak or write in favor of, to recommend. | |
73246099 | Latent | to support, to speak or write in favor of, to recommend. | |
73246100 | Chaff | refers to that which is worthless. | |
73246101 | overt | open to view, not hidden, apparent. | |
73246102 | impeccable | flawless, precise, perfectly executed. | |
73246103 | Anachronism | something that is out of place in time, often referring to a throwback to an earlier time. | |
73246104 | Cosmopolitan | international, belonging to all parts of the world, comfortable anyplace, not limited to just one place, and, therefore, when referring to a person, sophisticated. | |
73246105 | Reprisal | a retaliation, an injury done in return for an injury, especially a military action taken in retaliation. | |
73246106 | Innocuous | harmless, not hurtful or injurious. | |
73246107 | Precursor | a forerunner; an early stage, which gives rise to a more important stage. | |
73246108 | Garrulous | talkative, often about insignificant things; chatty, using too many words. | |
73246109 | Mellifluous | sweetly or smoothly flowing; melodic; sweetened, as if with honey. | |
73246110 | Balm | refers to something that heals. | |
73246111 | Loll | to lounge around, to recline or lean in a lazy manner. | |
73246112 | magnanimous | forgiving and generous, having a noble spirit, being free from pettiness. | |
73246113 | Protagonist | a leading character in a play, story, or movie; a champion, or hero. | |
73246114 | Rebut | to refute, to disprove, to argue against, to contradict with evidence. | |
73246115 | Deleterious | harmful, injurious. | |
73246116 | Sacrilege | disrespect of the sacred, an intentional insult or injury to that which is sacred. | |
73246117 | Inaugurate | to formally begin, especially to install into office with a ceremony. | |
73246118 | Loquacious | talkative. | |
73246119 | Mercurial | means changeable, especially with regard to mood, fickle. |