Americab Lit List 3

Accentuate

To make more noticeable or prominent

Ambiguous

Having a double meaning, unclear or inexact

Usurp

To take by force, take the place of someone in position forcefully

Aural

Relating to the sense of hearing or to the ear

Rhetorical

(Of a question) asked in order to produce an effect

Comprehensive

1. Complete including all elements of something

2. Wide ranging

3. Understanding

Felicitous

1. Well suited to the circumstance

2. Pleasing and fortunate

Intricacy

The quality of being intricate specifically having complex details

Introspective

Characterized by or given to introspection

Provocative

1. Causing annoyance, anger, or strong reaction

2. An arousing desire or interest deliberately

Condor

A large New World vulture with a bare head and mainly black plumage

Vernacular

1. Language or dialects spoken by ordinary people in a region

2. Architecture concerned with domestic

Adulation

Excessive admiration or praise

Analyze

Examine methodically and in detail of something

Emulation

Effort to match or surpass a person or achieve usually by imitation

Diffuse

Spread it cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people

Distinguish

Recognize or treat something as different

Abbreviate

Shorten a word, phrase, or text (cut short)

Commodious

1. Roomy and comfortable

2. Convenient

Corpulent

Fat, Obese