AP English 1-30 Vocab
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- Aberration
- N deviation from the proper or expected course
- Abeyance
- N condition of being temporarily set aside
- Acerbic
- ADJ sharp and forthright
- Acuity
- N sharpness or keenness of though, vision, or hearing
- Admonish
- V reprimand firmly
- Adroit
- ADJ clever or skillful in using the hands or mind
- Aesthete
- N one who cultivaes an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as an art or nature
- Altruistic
- ADJ unselfish concern for the welfare of others
- Ameliorate
- V the make or become better
- Amorphous
- ADJ lacking definite form; shapeless
- Antediluvian
- ADJ made, evolved, or developed a long time ago
- Apocryphal
- ADJ of doubtjul authenticity or authorship
- Arable
- ADJ fit for cultivation as by plowing
- Ascetic
- N a person who renounces material comforts
- Assuage
- V to make less intense or severe
- Atrophy
- N wasting or decreasing in size
- Avarice
- N extreme desire for wealth, greed
- Aviary
- N a large enclosure for birds in the zoo
- Avow
- V to acknowlegde openly, to declare oneself to be
- Bilk
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V to defraud, swindle or cheat
N one who cheats - Broach
- V to raise a sensitive subject for discussion
- Buttress
- N a brick structure that is placed against a wall to give support
- Celerity
- N rapidity of motion or action
- Charlatan
- N a person falsely claiming to have a certain expertise
- Cherubic
- N winged angelic being represented as a chubby child with wings
- Churlish
- ADJ rude, mean-spirited, and surly
- Circuitous
- ADJ (of a route) longer than the most direct way
- Clandestine
- ADJ sruueptitious or secretive
- Commensurate
- ADJ corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
- Concomitant
- ADJ naturally accompanying or associated