AP Lit Test 2

avert (v.)

1. Turn away

2. To keep from happening

diversify (v.)

1a. to give variety to

1b. to extend into different fields

2. to distribute something (normally investments) among different things (norm comps/securities) in order to limit risk

diversion (n.)

1. Act of diverting/turning aside

2. something that distracts the mind

3. maneuver that draws opponent away from planned action

4. Policy allowing youth to not go to juvie and go to a rehabilitating program

inadvertent (adj.)

1. marked by or resulting from carelessness; negligent

2. not deliberate or considered; unintentional

3. not intending to be so; unwitting

incontrovertible (adj.)

impossible to dispute

invert (v./n.)

Verb:

1. to turn inside out/upside down

2. to reverse position/condition of

3. to subject to inversion

4. to be subjected to inversion

Noun:

1. something inverted

irreversible (adj.)

impossible to reverse

revert

1a. to go back to former condition

1a. to resume using smth that had been disused

2. to cause to go back to former condition

versatile (adj.)

1. capable of doing many things competently

2. having varied uses/serving many functions

3. variable or inconsistant

vertigo (n.)

1a. sensation of sizziness

1b. instance of such a sensation

2. a confused, disoriented state of mind