Pre-AP English 2A #121-180
Terms
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- amulet
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noun
a charm often inscribed w/ a magic incantation to protect the wearer against evil - arrogate
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verb
to claim or seize w/o justification - atrophy
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noun
decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue - bevel
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verb
to cut or shape to a bevel - brawn
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noun
full strong muscles - burly
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adj
strongly and heavily built: Husky - carouse
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verb
to drink liquor deeply or feely; to engage in dissolute behavior - caulk
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verb
to stop up and make tight against leakage - consul
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noun
an official appointed by a government to reside in a foreigh country to represnt the commerical intersts of citizens of the appointing country - deride
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verb
to laugh at contemptuously: Ridicule - dross
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noun
the scum that forms on the surface of molten metal; Impurity, something that is base, trivial, or inferior - exhume
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verb
Disinter; to bring back from neglect or obscurity - forsooth
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adv
in truth: Indeed - forswear
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verb
to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath; to swear falsely - gabble
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verb
to talk fast or foolishly - gambol
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verb
to skip about in play; to leap about playfully - grovel
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verb
to creep w/ the face to the ground: Crawl; to give oneself over to what is base or unworthy: Wallow - meddle
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verb
to interest oneself in what is not one's concern - mettle
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noun
vigor and strength of spirit or temperament; Stamina, Courage - muddle
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verb
to make turbid or muddy, to make a mess of: Bungle - pensive
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adj
musingly or dreamily thougthful; suggestive of sad thoughtfulness - rack
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noun
an instrument of torture on whicha body is stretched; framework, stand , or grating on or in which articles are placed - reap
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verb
to cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine: Harvest, obtain, win - reek
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verb
to give off or become premeated w/ a strong or offensive odor; Give off - respite
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noun
a period of temproary delay; an interval of rest or relief - revel
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verb
to take intesnse pleasure or satisfaction - roseate
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adj
overly optimistic: view favorably - rude
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adj
being in a rough or unfinished state; Ignorant, Coarse, Vulgar, Sturdy - ruse
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noun
a wily subterfuge: Trick - sadism
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noun
delight in cruelty esp. on others - sally
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verb
to leap out or burst forth suddenly - salve
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noun
a remedial or soothing influence or agency, esp. for wounds or sores - sanctum
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noun
a sacred place - scion
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noun
detached living portion of a plant joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft; Descendant, Child - scruple
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noun
an ethical consideration or principle that inhibits action - slag
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noun
the dross or scoria of a metal - sortie
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noun
the sudden issuing of troops from a defensive position against the enemy; Raid - spigot
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noun
the plug of a faucet or cock; something that regulates availability or flow (money) - stint
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verb
to be sparing or frugal
noun
a period of time spent at a particular activity - stocky
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adj
compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build - surly
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adj
arrogant, imperious, sullen - taint
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verb
to contaminate morally: Corrupt; Spoil, Contaminate - surrogate
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verb
to put in the place of another; Substitute - taboo
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adj
banned on grounds of morality or taste
verb
to avoid or ban as taboo
noun
a prohibition imposed by social custom or as a protective measure - tally
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noun
a device for visible recording or accounting esp. business transaction
verb
to record on or as if on a tally, to make a count of - talisman
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noun
an object held to act as a chart to avert evil and bring good fortune - tedium
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noun
the quality or state of being tedius; Tediousness, Boredom - temper
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verb
to dilute, qualify, or soften by the addition or influence of something else; to make stronger and more resilient through hardship: Toughen - temperate
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adj
marked by moderation: Mild - thresh
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verb
to separate seed mechanically; to strike repeatedly: Trash - transgress
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verb
to go beyound limits set or prescribed by: Violate, Sin - uncanny
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adj
seeming to have a supernatural character or origin; Weird - upshot
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noun
the final result: Outcome - usurp
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verb
to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or w/o right - vapid
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adj
lacking livliness, tang, briskness: Falt, Dull - vassal
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noun
one in a subservient or subordinate position - wince
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verb
to shrink back involutntarily (as from pain): Flinch - wreak
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verb
to cause the infliction of (vengeance or punishment): Bring about, Cause - wrest
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verb
to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twist movement - zealot
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noun
a zealous person, a fanatical partisan