AP Lang unit 2

Ameliorate

V. To improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming

Aplomb

Poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity

Bombastic

Pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounded words intended to conceal a lack of ideas

Callow

Without experience, immature, not fully developed, lacking sophistication and poise; without feathers

Drivel

Saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish aimless talk or thinking; nonsense

Epitome

Exhort

Ex officio

Infringe

Ingratiate

Interloper

Intrinsic

Inveigh

Lassitude

Millennium

Occult

Permeate

Precipitate

Stringent

Surmise

V. To think or believe without certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess