AP Language and Composition February Vocabulary Flashcards
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8884573481 | Mollify | To soothe in temper or disposition; to reduce the rigidity of; to reduce in intensity | 0 | |
8884590712 | Abdicate | To renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function | 1 | |
8884630599 | Mileu | Surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature | 2 | |
8884637144 | Jejune | Lacking interest or significance or impact | 3 | |
8884646362 | Scion | A descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family - in a plant, to do with grafting of a limb onto a stem/stalk | 4 | |
8884656710 | Cabal | A group engaged secretly, united in a plot (as to overturn a government); sometimes "cabal" refers to the plot itself | 5 | |
8884697667 | Juggernaut | A massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushed whatever is in it's path | 6 | |
8884708437 | Disingenuous | Giving a false appearance of simple frankness/honesty | 7 | |
8884732208 | Exacerbate | To make (a bad situation, a problem, etc.) worse | 8 | |
8884749481 | Raconteur | A person who tells anecdotes in a skillful and amusing way | 9 | |
8884773183 | Impervious | Not capable of being affected, disturbed, damaged, and/or harmed | 10 | |
8884788125 | Implacable | Not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated; unable to be placated (soothed) | 11 | |
8884794876 | Obdurate | Stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; hardened in feelings | 12 | |
8884807749 | Obviate | To anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action) | 13 | |
8884834389 | Perspicacious | Of acute mental vision or discernment | 14 | |
8885009426 | Vocabulary | Being able to know stuff | 15 | |
8885025190 | Vocab | A shorter way to say vocabulary | 16 | |
8937084495 | Didactic | Intended for instruction | 17 |