AP English 12-Week 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 vocab

Encomium

A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Coherent

Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

Belabor

To work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Eschew

To avoid, shun keep away from

Acquisitive

Able to get and to retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

Emulate

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Arrogate

To claim or take without right

Banal

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Exoriation

A strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin

Congealed

To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

Carping

Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; nagging criticism

Substantiate

To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

Temporize

To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

Largesse

Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

Tenable

Capable of being held or defended

Insatiable

So great or demanding that it cannot be satisfied

Reconnaissance

A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

Germane

Relevant, appropriate, apropos

Ramify

To divide and spread out like branches; to separate into divisions

Intransigent

Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Tactiturn

Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

Invidious

Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Avid

Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

Halcyon

A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy. Golden; prosperous, affluent

Devious

Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course, roundabout; done or acting in a shift or underhanded way

Accost

To approach and speak to first

Animadversion

A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

Incendiary

Deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately starts fires; one who causes strife

Covenant

A solemn agreement

Gambit

In chess, an opening move that involves the risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

Brackish

Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

Histronic

Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial, melodramatic

Celeterity

Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

Suppliant

Asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly

Propound

To put forward, offer, suggest for consideration; to set forth

Propriety

The state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

Overt

Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

Undulate

To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

Sacrilege

Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

Talisman

An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers

Myopic

Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

Summarily

Without delay or formality; briefly, concisely

Perjorative

Tending to make worse le pressing disapproval or disparagement

Maelstrom

A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction

Distraught

Very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict

Credence

Belief, mental acceptance

Feckless

Lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable

Decry

To condemn, express strong diapproval; to officially depreciate

Articulate

To pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; (adj.) expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed

Derogatory

Designed to belittle or degrade; disparaging

Cavort

To romp or prance around exuberantly

Dissemble

To disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression

Dissemble

To disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression

Eulogy

A formal statement of commendation; high praise

Exhume

To remove from a grave; to bring to light

Evince

To display clearly, to make evident; to provoke

Verdant

Green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgement

Verbiage

Language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression

Murky

Dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision

Propinquity

Nearness in place or time; kinship

Intractable

Har to manage, stubborn, not responsive to discipline

Piquant

Stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative

Utopian

Founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical

Nefarious

Wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards

Viscous

having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity

Unwonted

Not usual or expected; not in character

Primordial

developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental basic

Prepossessing

Pleasing, tending to create a favorable impression

Recumbent

In a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting

Incarcerate

To imprison, confine, jail

Ludicrous

Ridiculous, laughable, absurd

Mordant

Biting or caustic in though, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh

Pusillanimous

Contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited

Nettle

A prickly or stinging plant; to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely

Stratagem

A scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end

Incumbent

Obligatory, required; one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of

Pecuniary

Consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money

Jocular

Humorous, jesting, jolly, joking

Frenetic

Frenzied, frantic, highly agitated

Disarray

Disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder

Atrophy

The wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; to waste away

Asseverate

To affirm earnestly and with emphasis

Glean

To gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers

Consummate

Complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection

Grouse

A type of game bird; a complaint; to complain, grumble

Bastion

A fortified place, stronghold

Exigency

Urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency

Flotsam

Floating debris; homeless, impoverished people

Concord

A state or agreement, harmony; a treaty

Delineate

To portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially

Hallow

To set apart as holy or scared, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere

Emend

To correct; to alter to serve a new or different purpose

Figment

A fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion

Fiat

An arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness

Esoteric

Intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret

Acuity

Sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses)

Garner

To acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future use

Fecund

Fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive

Enervate

To weaken, lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of, enfeeble, hamstring

Mundane

Earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary