AP Language 15 (no sentences) Flashcards
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| 6421779277 | flout | to openly disregard (often with contempt or scorn): |  | 0 |
| 6421779278 | invoke | to cite or appeal to someone or something as an authority for an action or in support of an argument; to call on or summon; to give rise to: |  | 1 |
| 6421779279 | indict | to accuse or charge with a fault, offense, or serious crime: |  | 2 |
| 6421779280 | contingent | occurring or existing only if certain other circumstances are the case: |  | 3 |
| 6421779281 | vehement | showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense: |  | 4 |
| 6421779282 | holistic | relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than parts: |  | 5 |
| 6421779283 | onus | a disagreeable necessity; the burden of proving something: |  | 6 |
| 6421779284 | moot | subject to debate and typically not admitting of a final decision (therefore often having little practical significance because the subject is too uncertain): |  | 7 |
| 6421779285 | caricature | a ludicrous, grotesque, or comically exaggerated representation of someone or something: |  | 8 |
| 6421779286 | propagate | to breed, spread, and promote widely (ideas, specimens, offspring, etc.): |  | 9 |