AP Lang Vocab 8

auspicious (awesome)adj

a favorable situation or set of conditions. If you start a marathon by falling flat on your face, that's not an auspicious start.

conducive adj

tending to cause or produce something. Regular exercise is conducive to happiness and a feeling of well-being.

auspicious vs conducive:

conducive means actively helping to achieve a specific result

Auspicious relates to fortune and omens promising sucess

charlatan noun

a person who is trying to deceive you with false claims, pretending to know things and lure customers in

coddle verb

association with pampering and taking care of someone/babying them

conflate (con..spanish) verb

a more formal way to say "mix together," used to mean "confuse or mix up."

ex. blending two stories together

droll(blend of doll and troll) adj

a description of a figure that is adorably strange and whimsically cute.

disparate(dis..tant)adj

Disparate things are very different from each other.

equivalence noun

equivalence describes the state of being equal,

fatuous (adj) (insult like fat..you lack being skinny, fatuous you lack…)

Fatuous means lacking intelligence. When your mother outlaws calling your brother stupid, use fatuous instead

fallow(adj)(your mind fall… out)

Something that is fallow is left unused. If you’re smart but lazy, someone might say you have a fallow mind.

hubris (he-man)(adj)

is an excess of confidence, pride

infringe

advance beyond the usual limit

kowtow (verb)(think AP world)

Now it refers to acting like you're actually bowing or not, but back then describes the act of kneeling and touching one’s head to the ground to show respect

moxie (noun) (roxie..like in fnaf she has___ to kill the mc

fortitude and determination

opine (speak your..)

mind

express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation

(You usually opine that cats are highly preferable to dogs.)

quintessential adj

representing the perfect example of a class or quality

prohibitive

tending to discourage (especially of prices

That expensive Ferrari in the showroom? You may want it, but its price is prohibitive — which means the price is discouragingly high

stifle (verb)

To stifle is to cut off, hold back, or smother. You may stifle your cough if you don't want to interrupt a lecture, or stifle your competition

salient (adj) (saline..salty..very prominent)

If something stands out in a very obvious way, it can be called salient. It's time to find new friends if the differences between you and your current friends are becoming more and more salient.

tenuous (ten..der)

lacking significance, thin, either literally or metaphorically.

If you try to learn a complicated mathematical concept by cramming for 45 minutes, you will have a tenuous grasp of that concept, at best.