AP Language Unit 3 Vocabulary Flashcards
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6135654892 | Carp | complain or find fault continually, typically about trivial matters | 0 | |
6135661903 | Municipality | a city or town that has its own government to deal with local problems; the group of people who run such a government | 1 | |
6135661904 | Imbibe | to absorb or assimilate (ideas or knowledge); to drink; to take up or in | 2 | |
6135661984 | thrall | a person who is in bondage; slave; mentally or morally enslaved | 3 | |
6135663784 | Chagrin | a feeling of vexation, created by disappointment or humiliation | 4 | |
6135663785 | Affix | to attach physically to something else | 5 | |
6135663786 | Wiseacre | a person with wisdom or knowledge, regarded with scorn or annoyance by others; a know-it-all; one who pretends to knowledge or cleverness | 6 | |
6135664957 | Morose | sad; having a gloomy disposition; gloomy | 7 | |
6135664958 | Surreal | having qualities that are bizarre; having hallucinatory quality; unreal | 8 | |
6135678892 | repose | a state of rest, sleep, or tranquility; to lie at rest | 9 | |
6135678893 | averse | having an active feeling of repugnance (disgust) or strong distaste | 10 | |
6135680623 | providential | occurring at a favorable time; opportune; happening at a good time because of luck; marked by foresight | 11 | |
6135680624 | fortitude | mental strength and courage that allows someone to face danger, pain, etc. | 12 | |
6135680625 | repent | to feel or show that you are sorry for something bad or wrong that you did and that you want to do what is right; to change one's mind; to regret; religiously turn away from sin | 13 | |
6135684448 | malevolent | wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: harmful | 14 | |
6135694080 | lament | to express sorrow, regret, or unhappiness about something; to mourn | 15 | |
6135694229 | scourge | someone or something that causes a great amount of trouble or suffering; a whip that was used to punish people in the past; used to inflict pain | 16 | |
6135697025 | Cadastral | Surveying (a map), showing or including boundaries, property lines, etc. | 17 | |
6135697026 | inviolable | never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored; too important to be ignored or treated with disrespect; secure from assault or trespass | 18 | |
6135698399 | abhorrence | feeling of repulsion; disgusted loathing | 19 | |
6135700171 | foil | to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk: to defeat; to keep (a person) from succeeding in a plan | 20 |