AP Lang Vocab 3

1. bombast-

impressive but meaningless language (noun)

Syn: nonsense

Please, professor, no more ____; just give me the facts

2. bona fide-

in good faith (adj.)

Syn: legitimate, genuine. Ant: Fraudulent, phony

We made a ____ offer for the property.

3. boor-

a rude or impolite person (noun)

Syn: buffoon, clown. Ant: sophisticate

My brother was acting like a ____.

4. bovine-

pertaining to cows or cattle (adj.)

The critic described the large figures in the painting as ____.

5. bowdlerize-

to remove offensive passages of a play, novel, ect. (verb)

Syn: to censor.

If the editors ____ much more of the book, there won't be anything left to read.

6. brevity-

briefness; short duration (noun)

Syn: terseness, conciseness. Ant: long-windedness

The ____ of the candidate's speech surprised everyone.

7. bucolic-

pertaining to the countryside; rural, rustic (adj.)

Syn: pastoral.

Jim wanted to find an old inn in the ___ setting in which to have lunch.

8. cajole-

to coax, to persuade, to wheedle (verb)

Tim tried to ____ his parents into letting him use the new car.

9. callow-

young and inexperienced (adj.)

Syn: immature. Ant: mature, old-timer

Although he was not the typical ____ youth, he was not as experience as he pretended.

10. carcinogen-

causing cancer (noun)

It is widely believed that nicotine is a ____.

11. carnal-

sensual, sexual (adj.)

Syn: erotic, voluptuous. Ant: chaste, modest

Even though Evelyn didn't understand the painting, she knew it had a ____ feeling about it.

12. carrion-

decaying flesh (noun)

The vultures circling in the sky led the border patrol to the ____ they had been seeking since the disaster.

13. cataclysm-

a violent change (noun)

Syn: disaster. catastrophe. Ant: triumph, boon

The earthquake in Mexico was a ____ which no one could have foreseen.

14. cataract-

large waterfall; abnormality of the eye

Because of the ____ in that part of the river, you can't put a canoe in the water.

My grandmother had to have a ____ surgically removed from her eye.

15. caveat-

a warning (noun)

John did not heed that old ____ about swimming alone because he had such confidence in his own ability.

16. -ty, y-

state of

17. -ize

to cause