AP Language Vocabulary Unit 2 Flashcards
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5007284411 | Ameliorate | To improve, make better, correct flaw | 0 | |
5007284412 | Aplomb | Poise, assurance, self-confidence | 1 | |
5007284413 | Bombastic | Full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas | 2 | |
5007284414 | Callow | Without experience, immature, not fully developed | 3 | |
5007284415 | Drivel | Aimless talk or thinking, nonsense, childish twaddle | 4 | |
5007284416 | Epitome | A summary, condensed, an instance that represents larger reality | 5 | |
5007284417 | Exhort | To urge strongly, advise earnestly | 6 | |
5007284418 | Ex officio | By virtue of holding a certain office | 7 | |
5007284419 | Infringe | To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds | 8 | |
5007284420 | Ingratiate | To make oneself agreeable in order to gain favor | 9 | |
5007284421 | Interloper | An intruder, trespasser, meddler, buttinsky | 10 | |
5007284422 | Intrinsic | Essential, inherent | 11 | |
5007284423 | Inveigh | To make a violent attack in words | 12 | |
5007284424 | Lassitude | Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy | 13 | |
5007284425 | Millennium | 1000 years, a time of great joy | 14 | |
5007284426 | Occult | Mysterious, supernatural, to conceal | 15 | |
5007284427 | Permeate | To spread through, penetrate, soak through | 16 | |
5007284428 | Precipitate | To fall as moisture, to cause, to hurl down a height | 17 | |
5007284429 | Stringent | Strict, severe, sharp or bitter to the taste | 18 | |
5007284430 | Surmise | To think without evidence, to guess, likely idea that lacks proof | 19 |