AP Lang Vocab- Morgan

80926002	abeyance	n. a temporary suspension of acitivity
80926003	abstinence	n. voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or drink, or from doing something pleasant but not good for you
80926004	abstruse	adj. hard to understand or grasp
80926005	adumbrate	v. to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely
80926006	alacrity	adj. cheerful readiness, liveliness, or eagerness
80926007	ambulatory	adj. able to walk or move about
80926008	apocryphal	adj. false, spurious, of doubtful origin
80926009	arbiter	n. a judge, one who decides
80926010	ascetic	adj. hermitlike, self-denial, austere
80926011	assiduous	adj. hardworking, busy, diligent
80926012	belie	v. to run counter to, to show something as false
80926013	brook	v. to tolerate, to put up with something
80926014	capricious	adj. whimsical, fanciful, impulsive
80926015	castigate	v. to punish, chastise, criticize severely
80926016	chary	adj. careful, caustious, wary
80926017	chicanery	n. deception or trickery
80926018	chimerical	adj. wildly fanciful, absurd
80926019	circumlocution	n. wordy language; an indirect, roundabout expression
80926020	contentious	adj. argumentative over a point, quarrelsome
80926021	debacle	n. a disaster or violent breakdown
80926022	deleterious	adj. harmful
80926023	descry	v. to discern, to see something, to catch sight of
80926024	desiccate	v. to dry out
80926025	discomfit	v. to confuse, deceive
80926026	doff	v. to take off, usually clothing, as a sign of greeting
80926027	doggerel	n. comic, sometimes crude, informal verse
80926028	dossier	n. a file of documents, letters and records
80926029	dulcet	adj. having a nice, agreeable, melodious sound
80926030	encomium	n. a eulogy or expression of high praise
80926031	endemic	adj. native, belonging to a specific region
80926032	espy	v. to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of
80926033	evanescent	adj. vanishing, happening for the briefest moment
80926034	exemplar	n. an excellent model, a typical example
80926035	exigent	adj. urgent, demands prompt action
80926036	extirpate	v. to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate
80926037	facetious	adj. humorous, joking in a somewhat inappropriate or clumsy manner
80926038	fecund	adj. fertile, productive, fruitful
80926039	fusillade	n. a rapid outburst, spray of gunfire
80926040	gainsay	v. to deny, to speak or act against
80926041	garrulous	adj. talkative
80926042	halitosis	n. bad breath
80926043	irascible	adj. hot-tempered, cranky
80926044	leitmotif	n. a dominant or recurring theme
80926045	levee	n. an embankment designed to prevent a river from flooding
80926046	lope	v. to run at a steady, easy pace
80926047	macerate	v. to soften by soaking, to cause to waste away
80926048	malapropism	n. the humorous misuse of a word that sounds very much like the word intended
80926049	matriculate	v. to enroll, most particularly in college
80926050	maudlin	adj. overly sentimental
80926051	mellifluous	adj. sweetly flowing
80926052	mordant	adj. bitingly sarcastic, incisive, caustic in manner
80926053	moribund	adj. being in a dying or decaying condition
80926054	munificent	adj. generous
80926055	neophyte	n. a beginner, a novice
80926056	officious	adj. unnecessarily helpful, meddlesome, interfering
80926057	omnivorous	adj. eating or absorbing everything, feeding on both animal and vegetable substances
80926058	oscillate	v. to swing back and forth
80926059	ossify	v. to become rigid, to be come set in one's ways
80926060	palliate	v. to hide the seriousness of something with excuses or apologies, to east without curing
80926061	pallid	adj. lacking color, wan
80926062	panegyric	n. lofty praise, eulogistic writing
80926063	parsimonious	adj. stingy
80926064	penury	n. extreme poverty
80926065	perfidious	adj. faithless, untrustworthy
80926066	perfunctory	adj. careless, unenthusiastic, done merely as duty
80926067	perorate	v. to make a long, formal speech; to sum up a speech
80926068	perspicacious	adj. shrewd, astute, showing strong powers of discernment
80926069	petulant	adj. cranky, ill-tempered, irritable, peevish
80926070	piquant	adj. pungent, charmingly provocative
80926071	prescient	adj. having foresight
80926072	prevaricate	v. to deviate from the truth
80926073	profligate	adj. corrupt, degenerate, wildly extravagant
80926074	propinquity	adj. nearness in place or time, kinship
80926075	protean	adj. readily assuming different shapes or characters
80926076	putrefy	v. to rot
80926077	recalcitrant	adj. stubbornly defiant and restraint of authority
80926078	recondite	adj. hard to understand, abstruse, over one's head
80926079	reprobate	n. a morally unprincipled person, a scoundrel
80926080	reticent	adj. restrained, reluctant, uncommunicative
80926081	ribald	adj. vulgar or indecent language
80926082	sagacious	adj. wise, shrewd
80926083	salubrious	adj. favorable to health
80926084	scotch	v. to put an end to
80926085	sinuous	adj. winding, having many curves
80926086	striated	adj. marked with thin lines or grooves
80926087	supercilious	adj. arrogant, overbearing, condescending
80926088	surreptitious	adj. sneaky, secret
80926089	sycophant	n. a flatterer, a self serving yes-man
80926090	temerity	adj. boldness, rashness, audacity
80926091	truculent	adj. hostile, aggressive, savage
80926092	vacuous	adj. empty, lacking intelligence
80926093	viscosity	adj. a thick or sticky consistency of a liquid