AP Eng Vocab List Two

Atrophied (adj.)

Having wasted away, decreased in size, declined or weakened

Attrition (n.)

Sorrow for one’s sins from a motive other than the love of God, or the act of wearing down by friction, or weakening/exhausting by abuse

Bucolic (adj.)

Of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen, or generally to rural life

Concomitant (adj.)

Accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way

Delineation (n.)

The act of outlining or representing something with lines or words, or something made by delineating

Dotage (n.)

A state or period of old age, especially when accompanied by mental decline

Enjoin (v.)

To direct by authoritative order or with urgent admonition, or to prohibit

Entity (n.)

A being; an existence

Erstwhile (adv./adj.)

Formerly, or previous

Extenuate (v.)

To lessen the severity of something by making partial excuses; to mitigate

Inhibition (n.)

An impediment upon freedom of activity, expression or functioning.

Metamorphosis (n.)

Change of physical form, structure, appearance, character or circumstance

Mundane (adj.)

Commonplace, ordinary, relating to the world

Nicety (n.)

A subtlety or precision, or the quality/state of something nice

Preponderance (n.)

A superiority in weight, power, importance or quantity

Proboscis

A prominent or elongated nose, of a human or animal

Rescind (v.)

To remove, repeal or cancel

Retrenchment (n.)

A reduction or curtailment

Rhapsody (n.)

An effusive, highly emotional expression of feeling, or a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation

Tenet (n.)

A principle or belief generally held to be true