AP Lang word of the day

Feckless (adj)

Ineffective; incompetent; futile

Paucity (noun)

Smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness

Abstruse (adj)

Difficult to comprehend

Disparate (adj)

Distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar

Elicit (verb)

To draw or bring out or fourth; educe; evoke

Supposition (noun)

Something that is assumed; assumption;hypothesis

Quotidian (adj)

Of no special quality or interest;ordinary;commonplace

Insouciant (adj)

Free from concern, worry, or anxiety;carefree;nonchalant

Interminable (adj)

Monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant

Disconcerting (adj)

Disturbing to one’s composure or self-possession; upsetting, discomfiting

Tenuous (adj)

Lacking a sound basis, as reasoning

Surmise (verb)

To conjecture or guess

Versimilitude (noun)

The appearance or semblance of truth or reality; quality of seeming true

Ameliorate (verb)

To make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory;improve

Exacervate (verb)

To make pain, disease, or an emotion more intense

Preclude (verb)

Prevent from happening; making impossible to happen

Indiscriminate (adj)

Not discerning;lacking in care, judgement, selectivity, etc.

Circumvent (verb)

To actively evade or avoid something

Colloquial (adj)

Characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal

Latent (adj)

Present but not visible, apparent, or activated, existing as potential