AP Language Vocabulary Chapter 8 Flashcards
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| 14382536188 | acquiesce | accept something reluctantly but without protest | 0 | |
| 14382536189 | affinity | a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship | 1 | |
| 14382536190 | blasphemous | irreverent, profane, sacrilegious | 2 | |
| 14382536191 | buttress | a support or prop up | 3 | |
| 14382536192 | circumspect | careful, cautious | 4 | |
| 14382536193 | corroboration | evidence that confirms or supports a statement, confirming | 5 | |
| 14382536194 | deplete | to use up, to waste | 6 | |
| 14382536195 | despotic | exercising absolute power, tyrannical | 7 | |
| 14382536196 | emaciated | unnaturally thin or weak | 8 | |
| 14382536197 | empirical | based on observation or experiment | 9 | |
| 14382536198 | extraneous | coming from the outside, foreign, present but not essential, irrelevant | 10 | |
| 14382536199 | fallow | inactive, unproductive | 11 | |
| 14382536200 | homogeneous | of the same kind, alike | 12 | |
| 14382536201 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 13 | |
| 14382536202 | incontrovertible | unquestionable, beyond dispute | 14 | |
| 14382536203 | irascible | easily angered, irritable | 15 | |
| 14382536204 | laconic | brief and to the point | 16 | |
| 14382536205 | magnanimity | having a lofty, generous, and courageous spirit | 17 | |
| 14382536206 | obsequious | overly submissive and eager to please | 18 | |
| 14382536207 | proliferation | rapid increase in numbers, multiplication | 19 | |
| 14382536208 | scrupulous | exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details, having high moral standards | 20 | |
| 14382536209 | sublime | lofty or grand | 21 | |
| 14382536210 | surreptitious | secret, stealthy | 22 | |
| 14382536211 | veracity | truthfulness, honesty | 23 | |
| 14382536212 | zeal | great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective | 24 |