Kara's AP English Flashcards
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- to give up, to renounce
- abdicate
- Suspended Action.
- abeyance
- washing the body
- ablution
- denial, especially self-denial
- abnegation
- to hate, to loathe to detest thoroughly
- abominate
- to wear away through friction
- abrade
- to condense or shorten
- abridge
- to leave secretly and hide
- abscond
- to remove guilt, condemnation, or responsibility
- absolve
- bitter in speech, taste or temper
- acerbic
- the top, the very best
- acme
- stinging, caustic
- acrimonious
- to warn or scold
- admonish
- pleasant, polite, easy to be around
- affable
- cheerful quickness
- alacrity
- constantly working and striving
- assiduous
- lacking decoration or adornment
- austere
- predictably commonplace
- banal
- extravagantly ornamented
- baroque
- to confuse, confound
- befuddle
- to look upon with reluctance or diapproval
- begrudge
- to betray, attract, facinate
- beguile
- to contradict
- belie
- kind of mild
- benign
- to dirty or ruin
- besmirch
- characteristic of a rural/rustic/country setting
- bucolic
- group of plotters generally working in secret
- cabal
- frank honesty
- candor
- to give up, surrender, or quit
- capitulate
- a corrosive or burning substance
- caustic
- to continually find fault or raise trivial objections
- cavil
- to punish or verbally reproach
- chastise
- respectful of the situation and its details
- circumpsect
- done or kept in private or secret
- clandestine
- to come together or join
- coalesce
- to exert pressure or undue influence
- coerce
- a large fire
- conflagration
- an apparently unsolvable riddle or situation
- conundrum
- lack, scarcity, shortage
- dearth
- to reveal the false, inaccurate or exaggerated nature of ones claims
- debunk
- proper, civilized, apporpriate
- decorous
- having an unhealthy, damaging effect
- deleterious
- immorality, corruption
- depravity
- to put down, insult
- deprecate
- oppressive ruler with absolute power
- despot