vocabulary often found in the AP Language Exam
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| salacious | appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious. | |
| pervade | to be present throughout; permeate | |
| deity | a god or goddess | |
| tenor | a continuous, unwavering course | |
| deplore | to feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn | |
| prowess | superior skill or ability. | |
| angst | a feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression. | |
| heretic | a person who holds controversial opinion, especially one publically againt the Catholic church, historically. | |
| inadvertent | not properly/duly attentive to what you're doing or saying. | |
| fallible | capable of making an error; imperfect | |
| recount | to count again | |
| sanctity | holiness of life or disposition; saintliness. | |
| buttress | a structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement | |
| pervasive | having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate; spread throughout. | |
| ubiquitous | being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent. | |
| innocuous | having no adverse effect; harmless. | |
| laggard | one that lags; a straggler. | |
| gaff | a public place of entertainment, especially a cheap or disreputable music hall or theater. | |
| tentative | not fully worked out, concluded, or agreed on; provisional; temporary, nonspecific | |
| lascivious | given to or expressing lust; lecherous. | |
| ostentatious | characterized by or given to ostentation (vulgar display of wealth, flashy); pretentious. | |
| cacophony | a jarring, discordant sound; dissonance. | |
| finitude | quality or condition of being finite (limited). | |
| incontrovertible | impossible to dispute; unquestionable. | |
| wax (v) | to increase gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity. | |
| atavistic | reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absense. | |
| chauvinistic | militant devotion to & glorification of one's country; thinking yourself to be better than others. | |
| devoid | completely lacking; destitute or empty | |
| macabre | suggesting the horrowr of death and decay. | |
| inefficacy | state or quality of being incapable of producing a desired effect/ result. | |
| icon | an image; a representation. | |
| topography | detailed, precised description of a place or region | |
| truculence | a disposition or apparent disposition to fight, especailly fiercely. | |
| deride | to speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth (derail). | |
| anecdotal | characterized by or full of anecdotes (short stories). | |
| predicate | to base or establish (a statement or action) | |
| impertinent | exceeding the limits of good manners and respect; improperly forward or bold. | |
| toady | a person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant | |
| dissident | disagreeing, as in opinion or belief. | |
| corroborative | strengthened or supported with other evidence; made more certain. | |
| ominous | menacing; threatening; warning; foreboding | |
| diminutive | extremely small in size; tiny | |
| auditory | of or relating to hearing. | |
| epoch | a particular period of history, especially one considered remarkable or noteworthy | |
| cohort | a group or band of people | |
| idyllic | simple and carefree; perfect. | |
| genocide | systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group. | |
| compunction | a strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt | |
| empathy | identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives. | |
| sanguinary | accomplished by bloodshed; violent | |
| squeamish | easily nauseated or sickened, grossed out. | |
| imperative | expressing a command or plea. | |
| affinity | a natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship. | |
| moderated | to lessen the violence, severity, or extremeness of. | |
| abet | to approve, encourage, and support (an action or plan); urge, help. | |
| proliferate | to grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring | |
| chagrin | a keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event. | |
| anarchist | an advocate of or participant in anarchism (no government resulting in chaos & disaster). | |
| recluse | a person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude. | |
| largesse | liberality or generosity in bestowing gifts. | |
| motley | having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous. | |
| decorum | appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety, respect. |
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