AP english 3 vocab 2
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- Aberration
- the fact or an instance of straying from the moral standard
- Approbation
- an act of approving formally
- Bellicose
- favoring or inclined tostart quarrels or wars
- Conflagration
- likely to cause an arguement or quarrel; belligerent
- Contentious
- likely to cause an argument or quarrel
- Credence
- mental acceptance as true or real
- Embodiment
- a representation in human form
- eminent
- standing out as to be readily perceivd or noted
- Endemic
- belonging or native to a particular people or country
- Epithet
- a disparaging comment or word
- Finesse
- skillful handling of a situation
- Fusillade
- a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession
- Paradox
- a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet istrue
- Percipient
- a person who receives telepathic messages
- Philistine
- a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainfulofintellectual or artistic values
- Rejoinder
- an answer to a reply
- Sartorial
- of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes
- Sedulous
- involving or accomplishedwith careful perseverance
- Scrunity
- asearching study or inquiry
- Supercilious
- cooly and patronizingly haughty