AP Language and Composition Vocabulary #10 Flashcards
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| 3821040183 | Ancillary (adj/n) | Providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system. A person whose work provides necessary support to the primary activities of an organization, institution, or industry. | 0 | |
| 3821042061 | Assiduous (adj) | Showing great care and preservance. | 1 | |
| 3821042062 | Audacity (n) | The willingness to take bold risks; rude or disrespectful behavior; imprudence. | 2 | |
| 3821044111 | Articulate (adj/v) | (Of a person or a person's words) Having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently; having joints or jointed segments. Express (an idea or feeling) fluently and coherently; form a joint. | 3 | |
| 3821045533 | Beguile (v) | Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way; help time pass pleasantly. | 4 | |
| 3821115731 | Centrifugal (adj) | Moving or tending to move away from a center. | 5 | |
| 3821112719 | Concomitant (adj/n) | Naturally accompanying or associated: A phemomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something. | 6 | |
| 3821109663 | Deference (n) | Respectful submission or yielding to the judgement, opinion, will, etc., of another; respectful or courteous regard. | 7 | |
| 3821097129 | Dolefully (adv) | Full of sorrow. | 8 | |
| 3821058817 | Gasconade (n) | Extravagant boasting. | 9 | |
| 3821056707 | Haggard (adj) | Looking exhausted an unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering; (of a hawk) caught for training as a wild adult of more than twelve months. | 10 | |
| 3821054330 | Imbue (v) | Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality. | 11 | |
| 3821054331 | Inert (adj) | Lacking the ability or strength to move; lacking vigor. | 12 | |
| 3821052300 | Incongruous (adj) | Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something. | 13 | |
| 3821095592 | Elucidate (v) | Make (something) clear; explain. | 14 | |
| 3821052301 | Inviolable(adj) | Never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored. | 15 | |
| 3821093776 | Extricate (v) | Free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty. | 16 | |
| 3821049516 | Mountebank (n) | A person who deceives others, especially in order to trick them out of their money; a charlatan; a person who sold patent medicines in public places. | 17 | |
| 3821090286 | Floundering (v) | To struggle or stagger helplessly or clumsily in water or mud; to struggle mentally; to show or feel great confusion. | 18 | |
| 3821049383 | Meretricious (adj) | Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity, of, relating to, or characteristic of a prostitute. | 19 | |
| 3821088887 | Garrulous (adj) | Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters. | 20 | |
| 3821047989 | Niche (n) | A shallow recess, especially one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament. | 21 |