AP World History Vocabulary Flashcards

7961365294	anachronism	a person or thing that is chronologically out of place	0
7961365295	apocryphal	not accepted as genuine or authentic	1
7961374655	assimilate	to absorb a minority or conquered culture into the majority or conquering culture, at times so completely that the absorbed culture ceases to exist	2
7961374656	dogmatic	expressing personal opinions or beliefs as if they are unquestionably correct and can not be doubted	3
7961378836	ecclesiastical	relating to a church or religious organization	4
7961389291	eclectic	selected from different doctrines methods or styles	5
7961389292	epiphany	a moment of sudden insight or understanding	6
7961393061	euphemism	a nice or socially acceptable way of saying something unpleasant, harsh, demeaning or crude	7
7961393062	arbitrary	a random decision or act not based on law or logic and often associated with a tyrannical exercise of power	8
7961400416	exacerbate	to make a bad situation worse	9
7961403940	hubris	arrogant conceit, confidence, and pride	10
7961403941	iconoclast	one who attacks and seeks to disprove cherished traditions or popular beliefs and ideas' a skeptic, renegade, cultural rebel	11
7961403942	mystical	a spiritual, religious or supernatural meaning or occurrence that can not be known, verified or experienced though the physical senses	12
7961407702	ostentatious	showy display of wealth or power	13
7961411824	ironic	happening in the opposite way of what is expected often with an element of mockery or bemusement from an observer's viewpoint	14
7961411825	secular	not related to religion or a church; worldly	15
7961414845	substantiate	to prove or verify	16
7961414846	tenable	capable of being defended	17
7961419452	virulent	extremely harmful, poisonous, deadly; bitterly vicious and hostile	18
7961419453	xenophobia	fear and hatered of foreigners, strangers or anything from outside one's own village or region	19