Ap Lit Horowitz Vocab 1

Abnegate

To surrender or relinquish to yourself

Apoplexy

A stroke; An intense state of near uncontrollable anger to the point that it feels like a stroke.

Billious

Of or relating to bile; Sickly; Irritable

Casuistry

Self-deception (Making yourself believe something that is not true; Gaslighting yourself)

Dissembler

One who dissembles; One who hides under false appearance

Efface

To eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by rubbing or erasing; to cause to disappear; to make oneself completely invisible

Expostulate

To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done (contradict)

Fetter (n)

A chain or shackle (anything that restricts)

Fetter (v)

To restrain or restrict

Garret

A room or unfinished part under the roof of a house

Pettifogging

Someone who argues over trivial things

Pique (n)

A feeling of wounded pride

Pique (v)

To arouse emotions

Primeval

Of or relating to the earliest ages (as of the world or human history); primitive

Scrofulous

Of, relating to, or affected with scrofula; morally contaminated or degraded

Titular

Having a title but no power

Abnegate

Verb

Apoplexy

Noun

Bedlam

A scene of uproar and confusion

Bedlam

Noun

Billious

Adjective

Casuistry

Noun

Dissembler

Noun

Efface

Verb

Expostulate

Noun

Fetter

Noun; Verb

Garret

Noun

Pettifogging

Adjective

Pique

Noun; Verb

Primeval

Adjective

Scrofluous

Adjective

Titular

Adjectuve