AP Lang- Outliers Vocab

Egalitarian

Related to or believing in the principle that all people are equally important and deserve equal rights and opportunities

Ethos

The distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group or institution

Meritocracy

A system where people move up in social status based on merit/ability

Crucible

A difficult test

Paradigm

a model, pattern, or framework of ideas or beliefs that shapes how a community, especially a scientific or intellectual one, understands and interacts with the world

Cohort

A group of people with a shared characteristics

Abstruse

Difficult to understand; obscure

Cognitive

relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity

Threshold

A point at which is considered a cut off for two different groups

Subversive

Secretly tryin got ruin or destroy a government

Inquisitive

curious, inquiring

Savvy

Having or showing perception, comprehension, or shrewdness especially in practical matters

Consequential

Having important or significant results

Submissive

Someone who usually follows orders or lets others take charge

Brevity

concise and exact use of words

Antecedent

Describes events that happened before something occurs

Credentials

Documents, qualifications, or achievements that prove a person’s authority, competence, or identity

W.A.S.P

White Anglo-Saxon Protenant, or an individual in the United States with British Ancestry and Protestant affiliation who has significant social and or economic power

Purported

Appearing or stated to be true, though not necessarily so; alleged

Imperious

Proud and expecting to be obeyed; overbearing

Confederate

Ally, accomplice

Nonchalant

Having an air of easy unconcern or indifference

Mitigate

Take action that softens the impact if something unpleasant or challenging

indelible

Something that can’t be removed, erased, or forgotten

Fundamental

Serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function

Idealist

Someone who envisions en ideal world rather than real one

Daunting

Something that seems difficult or scary to deal with

Concubine

A women with whom a man cohabits without being married to. Has a lower social status in the household than the legal wife

Miscegenation

A mixture of races, usually referring to interracial marriage

Progeny

The descendants or offspring of a living being

Fetish

an object or bodily part whose real or fantasied
presence is psychologically necessary for
sexual gratification and that is an object of
fixation to the extent that it may interfere with
complete sexual expression