AP Language Set H Flashcards
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862557315 | LANGUID | lacking spirit or liveliness | 0 | |
862557316 | COMMENSURATE | corresponding in size or degree or extent | 1 | |
862557317 | NOVICE | someone new to a field or activity | 2 | |
862557318 | DILETTANTE | a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement in a superficial way | 3 | |
862557319 | SORDID | morally base; vile; dirty or filthy | 4 | |
862557320 | EXIGENCY | a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy | 5 | |
862557321 | ARDUOUS | requiring great exertion; full of hardships | 6 | |
862557322 | APATHETIC | having or showing little or no emotion | 7 | |
862557323 | MINUTIAE | precise details; trifling matters | 8 | |
862557324 | PURCHASE | a firm foothold, grasp etc, as for climbing or levering something | 9 | |
862557325 | EFFICACY | capacity for producing a desired result | 10 | |
862557326 | CAPRICIOUS | subject to, led by a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic | 11 | |
862557327 | SUPPOSITION | an idea or theory believed to be true without proof. | 12 | |
862557328 | CONJECTURE | an un-testable proposition | 13 | |
862557329 | DIATRIBE | a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism | 14 | |
862557330 | ABSTRUSE | hard to understand because of extreme complexity or abstractness as well as being esoteric | 15 | |
862557331 | INSATIABLE | impossible to satisfy | 16 | |
862557332 | VORACIOUS | exceedingly eager or avid (readers, collectors, etc.) | 17 | |
862557333 | IMPERVIOUS | 1. not permitting passage; impenetrable 2. incapable of being injured, influenced, or affected | 18 | |
862557334 | CAMARADERIE | good-fellowship | 19 | |
862557335 | ACUITY | sharpness; keenness (vision, mind, etc.) | 20 | |
862557336 | OBTUSE | not quick or alert in perception or intellect; dull | 21 | |
862557337 | FLOUT | to scoff at, mock, scorn | 22 | |
862557338 | TOUT | to describe or advertise boastfully; praise extravagantly | 23 | |
862557339 | MORASS | a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot (usually used figuratively) | 24 | |
862557340 | EPITOMIZE | serve as a typical example of | 25 | |
862557341 | PARAGON | a model of pattern of excellence; the ideal standard | 26 | |
862557342 | VACILLATE | to waver in mind or opinion | 27 | |
862557343 | WINDFALL | a sudden good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | 28 | |
862557344 | VANGUARD | the front part of an army; the forefront in any movement, field, activity | 29 |