AP Lang BTWAM Vocabulary

Visceral

(adjective) felt in or as if in the internal organs; deeply emotional and instinctive.

Sovereignty

(noun) supreme authority over oneself or one's people; political autonomy.

Apparatus

(noun) a system or complex organization used for a particular purpose.

Erasure

(noun) the act of removing or ignoring something so it seems never to have existed.

Acquiescence

(noun) passive acceptance or agreement without protest.

Hegemony

(noun) dominance of one group over others, often supported by cultural norms.

Genealogy

(noun) account or study of family descent; here used to trace ideas or forces over time.

Corporeal

(adjective) relating to the body; bodily.

Palimpsest

(noun) something reused or altered but still showing traces of its earlier form.

Vestige

(noun) a small remaining part of something that once existed.

Redress

(noun/verb) remedy or compensation for a wrong; to set right.

Insouciance

(noun) casual lack of concern; indifference.

Prodigious

(adjective) remarkably great in size, degree, or extent.

Implacable

(adjective) unable to be appeased or calmed; relentless.

Seethe

(verb) to be filled with intense but suppressed emotion (often anger).

Consecrate

(verb) to make or declare something sacred; to dedicate formally.

Supplicant

(noun) someone who asks or begs for something humbly.

Chastened

(adjective) subdued or corrected by punishment or experience.

Disavowal

(noun) denial of responsibility or connection; repudiation.

Accretion

(noun) gradual growth or increase by successive additions.

Denigrate

(verb) to criticize unfairly; to belittle or defame.

Ossify

(verb) to become rigid or fixed in attitude or structure.

Enfranchise

(verb) to give the right to vote or grant rights and privileges.

Litanies

(noun) repetitive lists or recitations (often of complaints or grievances).

Interlocutor

(noun) a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.

Palpable

(adjective) able to be felt or plainly seen; obvious.

Predilection

(noun) a preference or tendency to favor something.

Insidious

(adjective) proceeding in a subtle but harmful way.

Suppression

(noun) the action of stopping something from being expressed or known.

Indignity

(noun) treatment that causes one to feel shame or loss of dignity.