AP Language Vocabulary Week 4 Flashcards

5006741846	conciliate	to reconcile, placate, appease, win over	0
5006745699	concise	brief and clear	1
5006747273	conclave	a private or secret meaning	2
5006750690	concur	to agree	3
5006754386	condescend	show feelings of superiority; be patronizing. act while conscious of having to descend from one's rank or position	4
5006762097	condign	well-deserved, fitting, adequate (usually of a punishment)	5
5006767047	condiment	seasoning	6
5006769189	condolence	expression of sympathy to someone experiencing sorrow, pain, etc	7
5006771737	condone	to allow by overlooking (usually just means allow or tolerate)	8
5006782892	conductive	tending to produce a certain result, favorable, helpful to an end	9
5006786766	congenital	existent at birth	10
5006789371	conglomeration	1. a mass of various elements. 2. a corporation usually of unrelated companies	11
5006794300	conjecture	guess	12
5006795682	connive	to plot to do something bad	13
5006798250	connoisseur	an expert, someone especially discerning in an area of expertise	14
5006806695	consecrate	to make holy	15
5006808801	conspicuous	easily seen, obvious,attracting attention	16
5006818173	constellation	assemblage of stars	17
5006820158	construe	to interpret	18
5006823430	consumate	1. perfect, highly skilled. 2. to complete, fulfill (usually to complete a marriage)	19
5006830300	contemporary	1. modern. 2. someone of the same time period as another	20
5006833296	contentious	quarrelsome	21
5006836164	contiguity	closeness, proximity, the state of being adjacent, being very close together	22
5006843212	contrite	sorry for a sin and showing remorse	23
5006847701	conventional	customary, adhering to standards	24
5006850164	convivial	joyous, sociable	25
5006854194	copious	abundant, plentiful	26
5006863236	corroborate	to confirm (usually in a legal state)	27
5006865764	coruscate	to sparkle, gleam (can also be metaphoric)	28
5006870504	coterie	group of people, followers, clique	29
5006873278	covert	hidden, secret	30
5006875767	covetous	greedy, grasping of money or wealth	31
5006881094	crass	crude, coarse, obtuse, lacking sensitivity, refinement, or intelligence.	32
5006885544	craven	cowardly	33
5006887262	credence	belief of the truth of something	34
5006889362	credulous	believing (sometimes with connotation of being gullible)	35
5006894995	cryptic	mysterious, obscure, ambiguous, unclear (usually in speech)	36
5006901203	culinary	pertaining to the kitchen	37
5006902752	culmination	highest point, end, climax	38
5006906198	culpable	guilty	39
5006907546	cumbrous	burdensome, cumbersome	40
5006910517	cupidity	greed, avarice	41
5006912708	cursory	hasty, superficial	42
5006915112	curtail	to cut short	43
5006915113	cynical	distrustful go others motives, believing that people are motivated by self-interest	44
5006923393	cynosure	center of attention, something that attracts attention	45
5006925529	daunt	to dismay, lesson the courage of, intimidate	46
5006928278	dearth	scarcity	47
5006929972	debacle	a disaster, a complete failure, sudden downfall	48
5006935213	decorum	proper behavior	49
5006941907	decrepit	old, feeble, worn out	50
5006945588	defection	a desertion of someones loyalty to a state or religion, etc	51
5006951295	deference	respect to someone else's will, opinion, wishes, etc	52
5006956228	delectable	anything pleasant, delicious, enjoyalbe	53
5006958915	delete	remove	54
5006960179	deleterious	harmful, injurious to health	55
5006964226	delineate	sketch, outline, portray, explain	56
5006969406	defunct	not in use, not in existence	57
5006971125	deluge	flood	58
5006973233	demagogue	leader who appeals to people's emotions, prejudices (very unflattering connotation e.g. hitler)	59