AP Language Set B Flashcards
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6593227036 | COMPUNCTION | a feeling of anxiety caused by regret for doing something wrong or causing pain | 0 | |
6593227037 | EXACERBATE | to increase the severity; aggravate | 1 | |
6593227038 | AMELIORATE | to make or become better or improve | 2 | |
6593227039 | PLACATE | to appease or pacify with concessions | 3 | |
6593227040 | ASSUAGE | to make milder; relieve; soothe, calm fears or anger | 4 | |
6593227041 | NEFARIOUS | extremely wicked | 5 | |
6593227042 | VIABLE | 1. capable of living; 2. useful or effective | 6 | |
6593227043 | DENIGRATE | to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner | 7 | |
6593227044 | EXCULPATE | to clear from a charge of guilt or fault | 8 | |
6593227045 | VEHEMENT | strongly emotional; intense or passionate | 9 | |
6593227046 | DISINGENUOUS | NOT straightforward or candid | 10 | |
6593227047 | INGENUOUS | free from reserve; candid; sincere | 11 | |
6593227048 | CHAGRIN | feelings of disappointment and embarassment | 12 | |
6593227049 | REPUDIATE | to reject as having any authority (to repudiate a claim) | 13 | |
6593227050 | DELINEATE | to portray in words; describe with precision | 14 | |
6593227051 | EMPIRICAL | derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | 15 | |
6593227052 | INURED | made tough by habitual exposure | 16 | |
6593227053 | FALLOW | plowed and left unseeded; not in use | 17 | |
6593227054 | SALIENT | prominent or conspicuous (salient traits) | 18 | |
6593227055 | EXTOL | praise, glorify, or honor | 19 | |
6593227056 | AMBIGUOUS | open to two or more interpretations | 20 | |
6593227057 | GUILE | crafty or artful deception; duplicity | 21 | |
6593227058 | OSTRACIZE | to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, etc. | 22 | |
6593227059 | CACHET | superior status; prestige of a position or a university; a distinguishing mark or feature (Ivy League schools have their own cachet) | 23 | |
6593227060 | IMPUGN | challenge as false or wrong | 24 | |
6593227061 | IMPUNITY | exemption from punishment or loss | 25 | |
6593227062 | EXTENUATE | to lessen or try to lessen the seriousness of a situation | 26 | |
6593227063 | MITIGATE | to make less severe | 27 | |
6593227064 | INCESSANT | occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or uninterrupted | 28 | |
6593227065 | VIS À VIS | 1. face to face 2. in relation to; compared with | 29 |