AP Vocabulary 6 Flashcards
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5406008215 | amity | friendship or friendly relations | 0 | |
5406008216 | reticent | inclined to keep silent; reserved | 1 | |
5406008217 | palpate | to examine by touch | 2 | |
5406008218 | inundate | to overwhelm; to cover with water | 3 | |
5406008219 | droll | amusing in a wry, subtle way | 4 | |
5406008220 | voluble | ability to use words easily, fluent and glib | 5 | |
5406008221 | vicarious | performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another | 6 | |
5406008222 | ribald | humorous in a vulgar way; bawdy | 7 | |
5406008223 | doppelganger | ghostly double of a living person; a device by which a character is self-duplicated; the "divided self" or ghostly double. | 8 | |
5406008224 | mercurial | characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood; quick and shrewd | 9 | |
5406008225 | barrage | a curtain of artillery fire; any overwhelming attack, as of words or blows | 10 | |
5406008226 | cognizant | aware, knowledgeable, informed; having jurisdiction | 11 | |
5406008227 | unctuous | excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety | 12 | |
5406008228 | crass | (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility; coarse, unfeeling; stupid | 13 | |
5406008229 | fastidious | Extremely careful; very exacting; difficult to please | 14 | |
5406008230 | pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money | 15 | |
5406008231 | nebulous | cloudlike, cloudy in color; not transparent; vague, confused, indistinct; ambiguous | 16 | |
5406008232 | vacuous | lacking in ideas or intelligence; empty | 17 | |
5406008233 | paradigm | something that serves as a model, example, or pattern; the framework of assumptions and understandings shared by a group that shapes its worldview | 18 | |
5406008234 | acerbic | bitter, sharp in taste or temper | 19 |