AP Night Vocab
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- manacled
- restrained in some way
- reminiscing
- to recollect and tell of big on experiences or events
- lucidity
- mentally sound; easily understood
- hemetically
- to be totally sealed so there's no entrance of air
- abdominable
- utterly loathesome
- hillock
- a small hill
- sancity
- the quality or condition of being considered sacred
- blunted
- dolling the edge and making less effective; numb
- jostled
- to make one's way by pushing or elbowing
- disengage
- to release from something that holds fast; detached
- convoy
- a group traveling together
- dension
- the act of ridiculing or state of being riduculed
- plaintive
- expressing sorrow
- functionaries
- one who holds a particular office or holds/services a role; bureaucrat
- emaciated
- to become very thing; especially due to starvation
- apathy
- lack of emotion, feeling, or interest
- reprieve
- to give temporary relief; to delay
- mysticism
- spiritual; discipline aiming at direct union with God through meditation
- ceaselessly
- never stopping; endless
- infernal
- of or pertaining to hell
- betrothal
- promise to marry; mutual engagement
- pestilential
- disease or death causing
- congealing
- to solitify
- emigration
- the act of leaving one's country to settle elsewhere
- pious
- having reverance and compliments of observation and religion
- beseeching
- to request earnestly
- semblance
- a representation or likeness
- oppressors
- one who persecutes by use of unjust force or authority
- hooligan
- young ruffian; tough
- automatons
- a robot; one that acts in a mechanical or impersonal way
- vigilance
- alert watchfulness; guard
- accursed
- literally to have a curse on someone; to be doomed
- embarkation
- the boarding of a vessed (on board)
- barracks
- building or groups of buildings used to house soldiers
- aristocratic
- having the characteristics of the privleged or ruling class; elegant
- mountebanks
- imposter or trickster; clown
- colic
- severe abdominal pain
- treatise
- a formal written account treating a subject systematically and in detail (a very formal essay)
- appeasing
- to calm or pacify by giving what is demanded; quenching
- annihilate
- to destroy all traces
- elapsed
- to pass or slip by
- anecdote
- short, often oral, interesting or humorous account of a real or fictional incident
- epidemic
- rapidly spreading out; break of a contagious disease
- imperceptibly
- unnoticeable; hardly see it
- synagogue
- a building in which Jewish worship and religious instruction take place
- interminable
- boringly pertracted or seemingly unending
- truncheons
- short stick carried by police officers; billy stick/club
- morale
- strong sense of enthusiasm and dedication to a common goal that unifies a group
- contagion
- a disease transmitted by direct contact
- encumbered
- to weigh down; burden
- bereaved
- to depreive by death; stunned
- gallows
- refers to the device in which the noose is suspended (used for hanging)
- indeterminate
- incapable of being determined; lacking percision or clarity; hesistant
- rations
- fix portion; especially dealing with food
- liberated
- to set free as from oppression
- dysentery
- an infection of the lower intestine producing pain, fever, and diaherra