AP Language Vocabulary Lesson 3 Flashcards
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14382387880 | abstruse | difficult to understand | 0 | |
14382387881 | affable | courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to | 1 | |
14382387882 | audacity | excessive boldness, rashness, daring | 2 | |
14382387883 | contrite | extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant | 3 | |
14382387884 | credulous | believing on slight evidence, gullible, trusting | 4 | |
14382387885 | depravity | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act | 5 | |
14382387886 | deprecate | to express strong disapproval of | 6 | |
14382387887 | didactic | intended to instruct or teach | 7 | |
14382387888 | dormant | inactive, sleeping, in a state of suspension | 8 | |
14382387889 | enigmatic | mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling | 9 | |
14382387890 | erudite | scholarly, learned, bookish | 10 | |
14382387891 | exotic | foreign, charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unusual | 11 | |
14382387892 | fuse | to mix or to join (usually by melting) | 12 | |
14382387893 | immutable | unchangeable, constant | 13 | |
14382387894 | incorrigible | not able to be corrected, beyond control | 14 | |
14382387895 | loathe | feel intense dislike or disgust for | 15 | |
14382387896 | mitigate | to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity | 16 | |
14382387897 | nullify | to make of no value or consequence, cancel | 17 | |
14382387898 | pacifistic | opposed to war or use of force | 18 | |
14382387899 | pretentious | pompous, self-important | 19 | |
14382387900 | prologue | introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work | 20 | |
14382387901 | recant | to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract | 21 | |
14382387902 | servile | overly submissive | 22 | |
14382387903 | trepidation | a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen | 23 | |
14382387904 | vilify | to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against | 24 |