AP Lang Season 3 Vocab (Verbs)

Allude

To make an indirect reference

Ameliorate

To make better

Amplify

To make larger or more powerful

Articulate

Expressing oneself easily

Bolster

To support

Castigate

To punish or rebuke severely

Concede

To acknowledge, often reluctantly

Delineate

To draw or depict

Deride

To write about dismissively; ridicule

Elucidate

To make clear or plain especially by explanation

Exacerbate

To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of

Feign

To give a false appearance of; to represent falsely

Fortify

To make strong

Galvanize

To arouse to awareness or action

Juxtapose

To place side by side especially for comparison or contrast

Lampoon

To satirize or poke fun of

Marginalize

To relegate or confine to a lower or outer limit as of social standing

Oscillate

Move or swing back and forth at a regular speed

Postulate

Suggest or assume the existence of a truth/belief for reasoning, discussion, belief

Reconcile

To reestablish in close relationship between

Substantiate

To prove the truth of or support with proof or existence

Trivialize

To make something less important than it really is

Underscore

To put emphasis on

Understate

To state as being less than it really is

Vilify

To attack the reputation of with strong criticism