AP Lang Vocab 2
Terms
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- Abeyance
- (n)-a temporary suspension of activity.
- Abstinence
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(n)-voluntarily refraining from eating certain foods or
drink or from doing something pleasant but not good for you. - Circumlocution
- (n)-wordy language, an indirect, roundabout expression.
- Contentious
- (adj.)-argumentative over a point, quarrelsome.
- Brook
- v)-to tolerate, to put up with something
- Debacle
- n)- a disaster or violent breakdown
- Deleterious
- (adj.)-harmful
- Descry
- (v)- to discern, to see something, to catch sight of
- Desiccate
- (v)- to dry out
- Discomfit
- (v)- to confuse, deceive
- Doff
- (v)- to take off ( usually clothing) as a sign of greeting.
- Doggerel
- (n)- comic, sometimes crude, informal verse
- Dossier
- (n)-a file of documents, letters and records
- Dulcet
- (adj.)-having a nice, agreeable melodious sound
- Encomium
- (n)-a eulogy or expression of high praise
- Endemic
- (adj.)-native, belonging to a specific region
- Espy
- (v)- to glimpse, to descry, to catch sight of
- Evanescent
- (adj.)-vanishing, happening for the briefest moment
- Exemplar
- (n)-an excellent model, a typical example
- Exigent
- (adj.)-urgent, demands prompt action
- Extirpate
- (v)-to rip up by the roots, to abolish, to annihilate
- Abstruse
- (adj.)- hard to understand or grasp.
- Adumbrate
- (v)- to suggest partly, to give a hint of things to come, to foreshadow vaguely.
- Alacrity
- (adj.)-cheerful readiness, liveliness or eagerness.
- Ambulatory
- (adj.)-able to walk or move about.
- Apocryphal
- (adj.)-false, spurious, of a doubtful origin.
- Arbiter
- (n)- a judge, one who decides.
- Ascetic
- (adj.)-hermitlike, self-denial, austere.
- Assiduous
- (adj.)-hardworking, busy, diligent
- Capricious
- (adj.)- whimsical, fanciful, impulsive.
- Castigate
- (v)-to punish, chastise, criticize severely.
- Chary
- (adj.)-careful, cautious, wary.
- Chicanery
- (n)-deception or trickery.
- Chimerical
- (adj.)-wildly fanciful, absurd.