AP World History Flashcards

14413954146	Abode	a place in which a person resides; extended stay in place	0
14413957270	Aboriginal	Describes people who are indigenous to a particular region. Particularly used to describe native people who were living in Australia and Polynesia prior to European occupation in the 1750s.	1
14413964099	Absolve	to free from guilt or blame or their consequences	2
14420872999	Acrophony	the use of a word as the name of he alphabetical symbol representing the initial sound of that word	3
14413965857	Adjudication	the act of a court in making an order, judgment, or decree	4
14413966853	Agave	species of cactus which are cultivated for economic or ornamental purposes	5
14413969693	Aggregate	formed by the conjunction or collection of particles into a whole mass or sum	6
14413972313	Agricultural	related to farming and/or the systematic growing and domestication of plants	7
14413976213	Alchemist	a person who practices chemistry/speculative philosophy	8
14413978175	Amalgamation	a consideration of two or more corporations	9
14413979592	Anarchy	a state of society without government or law	10
14413981351	Anatomically	structural; having connections with dissecting of an animal or plant for research	11
14413984492	Arbitrary	not fixed by rules but let to one's judgment or choice; discretionary	12
14413987375	Atoll	circular coral reef or strings of reefs rising above and surrounding lagoon	13
14413991041	Auspicious	favored by fortune; promising success	14
14413992450	Bantu	A group of languages used to classify/identify African tribes that migrated south of the Sahara	15
14413994790	Bard	any of various pieces of defensive armor for a horse; a thin slice of fat or bacon secured to a roast of meat or poultry to prevent its drying out	16
14414002335	Baron	a member of the lowest grade of nobility	17
14414005054	Bestial	having the form of a beast; without reason or intelligence; in human	18
14414006488	Biota	the animals, plants, fungi of a region or period	19
14414009431	Boreal	of or pertaining to the north wind	20
14414010551	Brandish	to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish	21
14414012577	Breadth	freedom from narrowness or restraint	22
14414013650	Bureaucracies	the administration of government through departments and subdivisions managed by sets o appointed officials following inflexible routine	23
14414028686	Cataclysm	any violent upheaval; an extensive flood	24
14414031340	Catalyze	to cause an action between forces initiated by an agent that itself remains unaffected by the action	25
14414034037	Causation	act of causing; an agency which produces effect	26
14414035596	Caveat	a warning or caution; admonition	27
14414038336	Civilization	an advanced state of humanity society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached	28
14414042998	Climate	prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperate, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds	29
14414047271	Coalesce	to grow together; to unite to form one mass	30
14414053253	Cognitive	knowledgeable in the broader sense	31
14414054408	Conferring	giving, granting, comparing	32
14414055845	Continents	large, continuous discrete masses of land, ideally separated by expanses of water	33
14414066040	Continuum	any compact; connected set; a continuous extent, series, or whole	34
14414068257	Corvee	unpaid work owed by a vassal to his feudal lord; forced; unpaid labor	35
14414079572	De novo	new, fresh, "from the beginning" or "starting over"	36
14414096415	Decimate	to destroy or kill a large part	37
14414097345	Deficient	lacking some element or characteristic	38
14414098229	Delineated	to trace the outline of; to portray in words; describe or outline with precision	39
14414100199	Delouse	to free of lice	40
14414100666	Denigrate	to speak damaging of; to criticize	41
14414103863	Devoid	not possessing, untouched by	42
14414104334	Diabolic	having the qualities of a devil	43
14414105383	Diffusion	the spread or movement of something from one place/region to another	44
14414107228	Disparity	Inequality or difference; unlikeness; incongruity	45
14414113854	Dispossess	to banish; to abandon ownership of	46
14414115218	Domestication	the process whereby a population of animals or plants through a process of selection, is changed at the genetic level, accentuating traits that benefit humans	47
14414126767	Dyad	two persons involved in an on going relationship; the double chromosomes resulting from the separation of the four chromatids of a tetrad	48
14415406256	Egalitarian	characterized by the belief that all men should have equal, political, social, and economic rights	49
14415408591	Embryonic	rudimentary, undeveloped	50
14415409349	Envoy	a diplomatic agent; any accredited messenger or representative	51
14415412480	Ephemeral	short lived transitory	52
14415414155	Ethereal	extremely delicate or refined	53
14415417051	Eurasia	describes the land mass containing the continents of Europe and Asia	54
14415417770	Explicitly	clearly stated; leaving nothing implied	55
14415420133	Fallacy	a deceptive, misleading, or false notion	56
14415421894	Fallow	pale; yellowish; brown color; to plow a field and leave it unseeded for a season	57
14415430005	Fertile Crescent	nicknamed "The Cradle of Civilization" due to the birth of various kingdoms within its borders, is a crescent-shaped region counting the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, and the Nile Valley and Delta of north east Africa	58
14415447152	Flora	the plants of a particular region or period, listed by species and considered as a whole	59
14415448786	Formidable	causing fear; apprehension; or dread	60
14415450031	Hallmarks	distinguishing characters or features	61
14418066171	Hemisphere	half of the earth, usually conceived as resulting from the division of the globe onto two equal parts north and south or east and west	62
14418070194	Idiosyncratic	the temperament or mental constitution peculiar to a person or group; any personal peculiarity	63
14418073541	Ignoramus	an extremely ignorant person	64
14418078899	Implausible	not believable; unlikely	65
14418079491	Implicit	suggested or to be understood though not plainly expressed; implied	66
14418081761	Incipient	beginning to exist or appear; an initial stage	67
14418088982	Inexorable	that which cannot be moved or influenced by persuasion or entreaty; unrelenting	68
14420883355	Inextricable	incapable of being dissent angles or undone	69
14418097525	Infidel	a person who does not accept a particular faith	70
14418098151	Inherent	existing in someone or something else as a permanent attribute, quality, or element	71
14418100265	Innate	existing naturally rather than acquired	72
14418103375	Inoculate	to introduce microorganisms into surroundings suited to their growth	73
14418105828	Inordinate	not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive	74
14418107226	Insuperable	incapable of being passed over or being overcome	75
14418108130	Intractable	hard to manage, control, cure, treat, manipulate	76
14418109588	Irascible	easily provoked to anger; imitable	77
14418111288	Jade	to make or become dull, worn-out, or weary, as from overwork or overuse	78
14418112656	Kleptocracy	"rule by thieves" - rulers benefit themselves by taking from citizens of a society	79
14418115822	Loathsome	disgusting; detestable; intense dislike	80
14420885934	Logogram	a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol	81
14418117480	Maritime	connected with the sea in the relation to navigation	82
14418120090	Metallurgy	the science of metals; to work in the metals or mines	83
14418121302	Morphology	the former structure of an organism considered as . a whole	84
14418122589	Mundane	pertaining to the world as contrasted with heaven; common or ordinary	85
14418125843	Mutineers	persons guilty of revolt against authority	86
14418126508	Myriad	a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or thing	87
14418130528	Nascent	beginning to exist or develop	88
14420889006	Nonviable	not capable of living, growing, and developing; not practicable or workable	89
14418131807	Overt	not hidden, observable, apparent	90
14418133085	Patagonia	grassy region in southern south America	91
14418140088	Paucity	smallness of quantity, scarcity; insufficient in number	92
14418214532	Perpetuate	to preserve from extinction	93
14418219390	Phoneme	any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, considered to be he basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented	94
14418226755	Pleistocene	era characterized by the spreading and recession of continental ice sheets and by the appearance of modern man	95
14418228577	Ply	to work with or at diligently	96
14418231063	Political Organization	the system or strategy by which a society is organized between its leaders and followers	97
14418235138	Precocious	unusually advanced; or mature un development; ripening or flowering early	98
14418850946	Precursors	predecessor	99
14418852505	Presage	soemthing that portends or foreshadows a future event	100
14418853906	Profusion	a pouring forth with much wastefulness	101
14418854516	Progenitor	a biologically related ancestor	102
14418859218	Progeny	a descendant or offspring, child, plant, or animal	103
14418860731	Proliferate	to grow or produce by multiplication of parts	104
14418862536	Prolix	extended to be great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy	105
14418866205	Proselytize	to convert or attempt to convert from one opinion or religious belief to another	106
14418868059	Proximate	very near or next, as in space, time, or order (a factor or event directly leading to another event or consequence)	107
14418877358	Protohumans	early manlike primates	108
14418877966	Putative	commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed	109
14418879112	Quintessence	the pure and concentrated essence of a substance	110
14418880361	Repertoire	all the musical or theatrical works of a particular category or writer	111
14418882005	Resinous	full of or containing the "sticky" substance found in fiberglass	112
14418884059	Salient	prominent or conspicuous	113
14418884884	Sedentary	remaining in one locality; not migratory	114
14418886707	Seminal	highly original and influencing the development of future events; a seminal artist; seminal ideas	115
14418888150	Serendipitous	to come upon by accident; good; beneficial	116
14418890572	Stratified	formed or arranged in layers; divided into social groups or classes	117
14420838642	Stratify	to form in layers; to preserve or germinated by arranging in layers	118
14420840058	Subjugated	to bring under control; to cause to become subservient	119
14420840860	Subsistence	to supply just enough food or resources for survival	120
14420841505	Subsume	to consider or include an idea, or term, as part of a more comprehensive one	121
14420842404	Succinct	expressed in few words; concise	122
14420845684	Succumbed	to giveaway, yield, submit	123
14420846918	Sunder	to separate, part, divide	124
14420848086	Supplant	to take the place of another; to replace	125
14420848467	Surplus	resources (such as food) above the minimum necessary to survive allowing for the sale or trade of the excess	126
14420850094	Taboo	proscribe by society as improper or unacceptable	127
14420850613	Tannin	any group of astringent vegetable and principals or compounds	128
14420851715	Technology	The making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures.	129
14420855707	Terrestrial	relating to the earth; consisting of land; growing in the ground or land	130
14420857305	Trajectories	the curved path of something hurtling through space	131
14420894578	Trajectory	the curved described by a projectile	132
14420858015	Treatise	a formal, systematic book on some subject	133
14420858456	Trypanosome	parasite in the blood or tissue transmitted by insects; this causes diseases such as African Sleeping Sickness	134
14420860100	Ubiquitous	existing or being everywhere	135
14420862029	Unabashedly	not ashamed, not restrained by embarrassment or consciousness	136
14420863363	Variation	the measurement, analysis, and understanding of change and differences among and between two things	137
14420865172	Weir	a small dam in a river or stream	138
14420865512	Zenith	the point on the celestial sphere directly above the position of the observer	139