AP Language Vocabulary Unit 23 Flashcards
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| 6280700680 | Peripheral | External; incidental; tangential; relatively unimportantt | 0 | |
| 6280709466 | Peripheral | Stick to the important, relevant facts for your research paper and don't waster time on BLANK issues. | 1 | |
| 6280714910 | Peruse | To study; to read; pore over | 2 | |
| 6280716668 | Peruse | If you BLANK the directions carefully, you won't make mistakes as you complete the assignment. | 3 | |
| 6280723403 | Philistine | Narrow-minded; smugly conventional; boorish | 4 | |
| 6280725137 | Philistine | BLANK stubbornness should not prevent us from advancing ourselves intellectually. | 5 | |
| 6280729796 | Piety | Devotion and reverence, especially to God and family; devoutness | 6 | |
| 6280733689 | Piety | Miss Billings set an example of BLANK and humility for the other members of her church. | 7 | |
| 6280736970 | Pique | To hurt the feelings of or make resentful; to arouse or excite; provoke | 8 | |
| 6280740230 | Pique | To BLANK her students' curiosity, Ms. Garson told them she had a surprise in store for them when the day is over. | 9 | |
| 6280746641 | Placate | To soothe; to pacify; to appease | 10 | |
| 6280748920 | Placate | I tried to BLANK my father by promising I would never break curfew again | 11 | |
| 6280753482 | Placid | Outwardly calm or composed; self-satisfied; peaceful; unruffled | 12 | |
| 6280757671 | Placid | Though the rebel was outwardly BLANK, inside he was seething with rage over the cruel treatment of the refugees. | 13 | |
| 6280762295 | Platitude | A thought or remark that is dull; trite, flat, or weak; cliche | 14 | |
| 6280766271 | Platitude | Avoid using BLANK in your writing so that your compositions remain fresh and original. | 15 | |
| 6280771097 | Plagiarize | To take ideas or writings from someone else and resent them as one's own; to use without giving credit; usurp | 16 | |
| 6280774622 | Plagiarize | The professor thought Marion may have BLANK her report when he say that she had no works cited page | 17 | |
| 6280782742 | Pompous | Self-important; stately; magnificent; excessively ornate; arrogant | 18 | |
| 6280787159 | Pompous | The fans hated the BLANK football player who acted like he was the greatest living athlete even though he was having an average season. | 19 |