AP Language Vocabulary Quiz 1 Flashcards

7262222067	ape	the action of attempting an overly exact imitation and ending up with negative or laughable results	0
7262232546	dun	to insist on the on the payment of a debt	1
7262234675	fop	used for a man who is too concerned with his looks and his clothes	2
7262244718	gad	to move out, travel, usually in a kind of aimless way	3
7262250651	hex	an evil spell or to put an evil spell on someone	4
7262259294	ken	the limits of your knowledge	5
7262262879	pox	bad luck	6
7262264100	sow	to plant a seed (literally and figuratively)	7
7262271000	vex	to annoy or perplex	8
7262272710	vie	compete, contend	9
7262275986	amalgamation	to mix or combine into a unified whole	10
7262296222	admixture	mixture, mix with	11
7262300763	eclectric	made up from a variety of sources	12
7262305327	catholic	comprehensive, of broad scope	13
7262309671	motley	composed of a variety of sources, heterogeneous	14
7262315010	corroborate	to bring in new evidence to strengthen or support an idea or argument	15
7262318798	asunder	apart, into separate pieces	16
7262324195	diaspora	dispersion of a people from their original homeland, language or culture	17
7262336867	cleave	to split, cut, or penetrate	18
7262342201	disseminate	to scatter widely, to disperse	19
7291378364	aphrodisiac	foods or drugs that allegedly make men and women feel more amorous	20
7291388994	chthonic	describing something coming from the underworld	21
7291392991	hector	to bully or to try to force someone to do something	22
7291396768	hermetic	describe something very literal, a jar so completely sealed that no air can get in	23
7291402185	junoesque	a woman who is unusually tall and stately and so beautiful as to seem divine	24
7291407634	mercurial	describes someone whose moods change very rapidly	25
7291419178	mnemonic	refers to memory or relating to memory	26
7291420749	muse	to lose yourself in your thoughts perhaps a waiting inspiration	27
7291425984	oddysey	a literal journey or a journey of the intellect or spirit	28
7291428961	saturnine	gloomy or even bitterly sarcastic and mocking	29
7291434820	magnanimous	extremely generous and forgiving	30
7291438238	parsimonious	excessively stinging	31
7291440304	prodigal	extremely wasteful or extravagant	32
7291445989	penurious	stingy or unwilling to spend money (poor)	33
7291450342	eleemosynary	contributing to charity	34
7291454190	frugale	extremely economical	35
7291457728	munificent	very generous in giving	36
7291460113	averiscious	greedy	37
7291476618	mean	miseraly and stingy	38
7291476619	indulgent	leniant	39
7291476620	equine	anything bearing the characteristics of horses	40
7291481010	bovine	of or related to the characteristics of cows, oxen, or buffalos, also sluggish or dull	41
7291487499	lupine	ravenous or rapacious	42
7292813901	ursine	bears-like, usually a physical description	43
7292821308	porcine	resembling a swine or pig, either physically or behaviorally	44
7292827741	simian	resembles an ape or a monkey	45
7292831022	serpentine	snake-like in behavior or physically resembling a snake	46
7292844464	pachyderm	thick-skinned, refers to the group of large, thick-skinned, hoofed animals	47
7292872613	avian	having the characteristics of birds	48
7292879487	herpetology	denotes the study of reptiles and amphibians	49
7292888896	laconic	those who say little	50
7292893087	taciturn	implying an even more grudging conversational style	51
7292899913	lapidary	characterizes precision of wording	52
7292923474	pithy	compliment for style of word use that is both brief and forceful	53
7292942187	succinct	concise speaking or writing	54
7292944822	terse	brief, to the point	55
7292958979	garrulous	talking a great deal, taking too much, going on and on	56
7292981090	prattling	to prattle, chatter meaninglessly	57
7292992128	glib	speaking without enough thought, words come easily	58
7293004260	prolix	pouring forth of too many words or phrases	59
7293009095	maundering	you keep on going when you could have won praise for being more concise	60
7293031257	indigenous	people or things that are native to a region	61
7293033838	interloper	intrude where they aren't wanted	62
7293036637	extraneous	coming from the outside, irrelevant or unimportant	63
7293050270	inherent	stuck into	64
7293054266	germane	relevant, suitable, closely connected	65
7293058236	pariah	someone not accepted into his or her society, social outcast	66
7293077940	endemic	native or common to or peculiar to a specific region or abstract area	67
7293096712	intrinsic	inherent, inward	68
7293105429	ostracize	expelling a person from a community either literally or figuratively	69
7293133517	tangential	slightly touching, barely connected	70
7293143361	ominous	foreshadowing of the future	71
7293147688	portentous	something carrying a sign, a portent, of the threats of the future	72
7293164359	inauspicious	predicts or suggests something favorable	73
7293519486	imminent	something about to occur	74
7293523178	impending	something threatening or not, the new arrival of the event hangs over you	75
7293528074	minatory	threatening	76
7293530859	presage	forewarning, an ominous feeling of a prediction	77
7293537408	bode and forebode	the one-syllable word is a verb referring to an omen and the two-syllable repeats or intensifies that presentiment	78
7293544676	propitiate	actions to appease or calm forces that might oppose a favorable outcome	79
7293550342	harbinger	forerunner, an early warning or messenger of what's to come	80
7293558367	squander	spend extravagantly	81
7293564182	dissipation	a literal scattering dispersion, a specialized sense of scattering	82
7293569201	disenfranchise	to lose the right to vote	83
7293573376	forfeiture	the idea of a penalty, giving up something one's possession	84
7293579428	denude	primarily used of trees that lose their leaves or loss of other vegetation, to make bare	85
7293585114	privation	deprived of basic necessities or comforts	86
7293591626	divest	to undress	87
7293605220	renounce	give it up	88
7293608083	elegiac	feeling of sadness many types of losses	89
7293612559	bereave	to leave desolate, usually by death	90