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AP Language and Composition Vocabulary #10 Flashcards

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3821040183Ancillary (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
3821042061Assiduous (adj)Showing great care and preservance.1
3821042062Audacity (n)The willingness to take bold risks; rude or disrespectful behavior; imprudence.2
3821044111Articulate (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
3821045533Beguile (v)Charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way; help time pass pleasantly.4
3821115731Centrifugal (adj)Moving or tending to move away from a center.5
3821112719Concomitant (adj/n)Naturally accompanying or associated: A phemomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something.6
3821109663Deference (n)Respectful submission or yielding to the judgement, opinion, will, etc., of another; respectful or courteous regard.7
3821097129Dolefully (adv)Full of sorrow.8
3821058817Gasconade (n)Extravagant boasting.9
3821056707Haggard (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
3821054330Imbue (v)Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality.11
3821054331Inert (adj)Lacking the ability or strength to move; lacking vigor.12
3821052300Incongruous (adj)Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something.13
3821095592Elucidate (v)Make (something) clear; explain.14
3821052301Inviolable(adj)Never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored.15
3821093776Extricate (v)Free (someone or something) from a constraint or difficulty.16
3821049516Mountebank (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
3821090286Floundering (v)To struggle or stagger helplessly or clumsily in water or mud; to struggle mentally; to show or feel great confusion.18
3821049383Meretricious (adj)Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity, of, relating to, or characteristic of a prostitute.19
3821088887Garrulous (adj)Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.20
3821047989Niche (n)A shallow recess, especially one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament.21
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