ap language vocab 1 Flashcards

14775695239	truculent	(a) fierce, rude, cruel, savage	0
14775695240	venerate	(v) to worship	1
14775695241	impish	(a) mischievous	2
14775695242	tempest	(n) a storm	3
14775695243	indolent	(a) idle, lazy, to avoid work	4
14775695244	edifice	(n) a building, especially a tall, imposing one	5
14775695245	vicissitude	(n) a condition of constant change or alternation as a natural process, mutability	6
14775695246	torpor	(n) a state of being dormant or inactive, temporary loss of all or part of the power of sensation or motion, sluggishness, stupor, dullness	7
14775695247	arduous	(a) difficult to do, laborious	8
14775695248	advent	(n) arrival	9
14775695249	sentient	(a) capable of feeling	10
14775695250	incumbent	(n) the holder of an office	11
14775695251	sagacious	(a) wise	12
14775695252	obtuse	(a) not sharp or blunt, either literally or metaphorically	13
14775695253	alacrity	(n) liveliness, willingness to jump into the action	14
14775695254	tremulous	(a) trembling, quivering, palpitating, even fearful	15
14775695255	moribund	(a) dying	16
14775695256	imbue	(v) to fill up, to saturate, to permeate or even to thoroughly inspire	17
14775695257	reminiscence	(n) the act of remembering past experiences, the written or spoken recollection	18
14775695258	gourmand	(n) a glutton	19
14775695259	vitiate	(v) to make imperfect, faulty or impure; can also refer to impure or perverse people; to nullify a contract	20
14775695260	expatiate	(v) to leave the homeland	21
14775695261	repudiate	(v) to put away, to divorce, to cast off publicly	22
14775695262	banal	(a) trite, commonplace, tired	23
14775695263	percolate	(v) ooze gradually or strain, used metaphorically to mean permeate gradually	24
14775695264	imbecile	(n) a very foolish or stupid person	25
14775695265	cumbersome	(a) hard to handle or deal with because of size	26
14775695266	polemic	(a) controversial	27
14775695267	malleable	(a) capable of being changed molded or trained, originally used to refer to the bending of iron	28