AP Lang Vocab Week 1

adroit

skillful, clever (adj.)

adulterate

to make impure, to contaminate (verb) or impure (adj.)

adventitious

accidental; nonessential (adj.)

aegis

a shield; protection; sponsorship (noun)

aesthetic

pertaining to beauty (adj.)

affectation

a phony attitude; pose (noun)

affinity

an attraction to (noun)

affluence

wealth; richness (noun)

agape

open-mounthed; surprised; agog (adj.)

aggrandize

to enlarge; to expand (verb)

altruism

a concern for others; generosity (noun)

ambiguous

open to more than one interpretation (adj.)

amoral

lacking a sense of right and wrong (adj.)

morphous

shapeless, formless, vague (adj.)

animosity

hatred (noun)

morph-

to form or to change

-ate/-ade

action or process