Academic Vocabulary #3 AP English Language 81-120 Flashcards

15192984176	Accolade	praise, distinction	0
15192987495	Benign	kindly, gentle, or harmless	1
15192992137	carnivorous	meat-eating	2
15192993877	Deflation	decrease, depreciation	3
15192995902	embezzle	to steal money in violation of a trust	4
15193004525	fetter	to bind, chain, confine	5
15193009339	gluttony	eating and drinking to excess	6
15193011899	heighten	to raise	7
15193015647	impeccable	flawless, without fault	8
15193018627	legible	readable	9
15193019784	invalid	a chronically ill or disabled person	10
15193021440	sullenly	gloomy or sadly	11
15193023401	mournful	feeling or expressing grief	12
15193026271	infallibility	the state of being incapable to fail	13
15193031815	blight	a disease or something that withers hopes or impairs growth	14
15193041426	doggedness	stubborn, not yielding	15
15193045016	reiterate	to say over again; repeat	16
15193046746	naught	nothing	17
15193049488	vermilion	a vivid red to reddish-orange color	18
15193053151	iridescent	producing bright rainbow-like colors	19
15193058029	martyr	person dying for his or her beliefs	20
15193063758	notoriety	unfavorable fame	21
15193067403	pedantic	ostentatious in one's learning; overly concerned with minute details or formalisms	22
15193074138	parch	to dry or shrivel	23
15193075577	regress	to move backward; revert to an earlier form or state	24
15193080261	savant	learned person; genius	25
15193083226	tenuous	weak, insubstantial	26
15193084344	utopia	perfect place	27
15193087388	vindicate	to clear of blame; support a claim	28
15193093874	withdrawn	unsociable, aloof; shy, timid	29
15193095924	buoyancy	the tendency to remain afloat in a liquid	30
15193099693	burgeon	to begin to grow, sprout, flourish	31
15193102528	evanesce	to disappear gradually; fade away; vanish	32
15193107018	prod	to jab or poke	33
15193110411	shrivel	to shrink and wrinkle	34
15193114335	glisten	to shine with reflected light	35
15193118120	Heresy	An opinion or doctrine that is different from established religious beliefs	36
15193126011	precariously	dangerously lacking in stability	37
15193130484	tremendous	extremely large; enormous	38
15193133010	loll	to recline lazily; to hang laxly	39