AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 10969439921 | ablution | act of cleansing |  | 0 |
| 10969439922 | abnegate | to deny |  | 1 |
| 10969439923 | convivial | sociable; fond of eating, drinking, and people |  | 2 |
| 10969439924 | debased | lowered in status or character |  | 3 |
| 10969439925 | desecrate | contaminate; profane; defile |  | 4 |
| 10969439926 | desiccate | to dry completely, dehydrate |  | 5 |
| 10969439927 | disparate | different in kind |  | 6 |
| 10969439928 | eclectic | selecting from various sources |  | 7 |
| 10969439929 | fanaticism | (n) extreme devotion to a cause |  | 8 |
| 10969439930 | foment | (v) to instigate or stir up |  | 9 |
| 10969439931 | panache | (n) flamboyance, confident in style and manner |  | 10 |
| 10969439932 | pernicious | (adj) very harmful |  | 11 |
| 10969439933 | purport | (v) to profess, suppose, claim |  | 12 |
| 10969439934 | tractable | (adj) obedient, yielding, easy to control |  | 13 |
| 10969439935 | quixotic | (adj) romantic; whimsical; unrealistic |  | 14 |
| 10969439936 | prologue | (n) introductory section of a literary work or play |  | 15 |
| 10969439937 | unctuous | (adj) greasy, oily; smug and falsely earnest |  | 16 |
| 10969439938 | umbrage | (n) offense, resentment |  | 17 |
| 10969439939 | verisimilitude | (n) quality of appearing true or real |  | 18 |
| 10969439940 | obsequies | (n, pl) funeral ceremony |  | 19 |