AP Lang - Vocab Notebook Terms

Jubilant

(Adj) Feeling or expressing great joy

Amorous

(Adj) Of or relating to love

Foreboding

(Adj) Implying or seemingly to imply something bad will occur.

Bombastic

(Adj) High-sounding/exaggerated with little meaning

Postulate

(Verb) To assume or claim something as true, existent or necessary. Usually for the foundation of an argument or theory.

Seldom

(Adj) Rarely; in few instances

Emasculated

(Adj) Deprived of or lacking virility, strength or vigor; often implied the lost of masculinity.

Perplexing

(Adj) Confusing; baffling; puzzling

Deprecate

(Verb) Express disapproval of

Dainty

(Adj) Delicate or diminutive (small) beauty, form or grace

Sublimely

(Adj) Lofty, awe-inspiring or exalted; describes something beautiful, grand or of high worth.

Wring

(Verb) To squeeze or twist, especially to dry out something.

Vertiable

(Adj) Real, true, genuine; stresses that something, especially a metaphor or hyperbole, is in fact true.

Miasma

(Noun) Oppressive atmosphere that depletes or corrupts; bad air

Teetering

(Verb) To move unsteadily

Forthright

(Adj) Blunt, straightforward; not ambiguous

Crabwise

(Verb) Moving sideways, in careful and indirect way.

Klatches

(Noun) Social gathering for conversation.

Spectral

(Adj) Of, relating to, or suggesting a specter; ghostly

Primeval

(Adj) Of or relating to the earlierst ages of human history

Parish

(Noun) Local church community with one main church, and pastor.

Clamored

(Verb) To become loudly insistent

Trepidation

(Noun) Nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation

Congeries

(Noun) Disorderly collection

Exaltation

(Noun) Feeling of extreme happiness, power, or importance.

Ameliorate

(Verb) To make something better or more tolerable

Quaking

(Verb) To shake or vibrate; usually from shock or instability (bad emotions)

Vengeance

(Noun) Punishment in retaliation for an injury or offense

Providence

(Noun) Divine guidance or care

Briskness

(Adj) Sharp in tone or manner; quick, energetic, lively

Implicate

(Verb) Show someone else to also be involved in a crime

Fervor

(Noun) Intense and passionate feeling

Conjured

(Verb) Summon something by invocation or incantation

Contorting

(Verb) Twist in a violent manner

Spectral

(Adj) Of, relating to, or suggesting a specter; ghostly

Dubious

(Adj) Questionable or suspect of something’s true nature or quality

Raving

(Verb) Talking wildly or irrationally

Fiendish

(Adj) Extremely cruel, wicked or devilish

Amended

(Verb) Change or modify

Scapegoating

(Verb) Make a single individual take the blame for others

Jargon

(Noun) Insider language; specific words and phrases used by a particular group that are difficult for outsiders to understand

Esoteric

(Adj) Insider language; Describes something that is only understood by a particular group

Notorious

(Adj) Widely and unfortunately known; describes something famous for a bad reason

Pretentious

(Adj) Expressing more important or impressiveness than actually possessed.

Succinct

(Adj) Using few words to state or express something.

Calamity

(Noun) Disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering.

Enumerating

(Verb) Specify one after another; list things one by one.

Carnage

(Noun) Great and usually bloody slaughter or injury (of people)

Amity

(Noun) Friendly relations between nations

Solemn

(Adj) Very serious or formal

Abiding

(Adj) Continuing for a long time; feeling of long time

Exhilarated

(Adj) Very happy, excited or elated.

Languorous

(Adj) Characterized by tiredness or inactivity, especially usually of a pleasant kind

Ebullient

(Adj) Cheerful and full of energy

Supercilious

(Adj) Behaving of looking as though one thinks one is superior to others; acting arrogant and egotistic

Gaucheness

(Adj) Describes being socially awkward, lacking of grace or tact

Exacting

(Adj) Making great demands on something

Intransigent

(Adj) Unwilling or refusing to change your perspective, even in the face of reason.

Fleetingly

(Adj) For a very short time

Ebbed

(Verb) Gradually lessen or reduce

Malign

(Verb) Speak about something in a spitefully critical manner

Fleecing

(Verb) To take someone’s money dishonestly

Patronizing

(Adj) Appearing kind of helping while harboring feelings of superiority/condescending

Contemporary

(Adj) Belonging to or occurring in the present

Catastrophe

(Noun) An event causing great and unusually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster

Paranoiacs

(Noun) Person showing unjustified suspicion and mistrust of other people

Erroneously

(Adj) In an mistaken way; incorrectly

Empirical

(Adj) Originating in or based on observation or experience

Dogmatic

(Adj) Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true; standing firm on beliefs despite the existence of conflicting evidence.

Cumulative

(Adj) Increasing by successive additions

Populism

(Noun) Political belief or movement that reflects the interests and needs of the common majority, especially against the Elites or the Establishment.

Monolithic

(Adj) Describes something to be large, powerful, and intractably indivisible and uniform. Usually to describe structures.

Immutable

(Adj) Unchanging over time and unable to be changed

Ambivalence

(Noun) The state of having mixed feeling or contradictory ideas.

Discombobulating

(Verb) Disconcert or confuse (someone)

Loathe

(Verb) Feeling intense dislike or disgust for

Fraught

(Adj) Causing or affected by anxiety or stress

Predicament

(Noun) A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation

Ecclesiastic

(Adj) Relating to the Christian church, clergy or ideology

Disparage

(Verb) Disregard or take something as being worthless