AP English Language and Composition

Vocab list

Allocation

the act of setting apart for a purpose or specific plan, designate

Ascetic

a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons

Beguile

to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude; to take away from by cheating or deceiving

Crass

without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts

Defray

to bear or pay all or part of (the costs, expenses, etc.): The grant helped defray the expenses of the trip.

Dint

force; power: By dint of hard work she became head of the company. A dent.

Enjoin

to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis: The doctor enjoined a strict diet.

Envoy

a diplomatic agent; any accredited messenger or representative

Interloper

to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license; to thrust oneself into the affairs of others

Vicarious

performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment. Taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute. Felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others: a vicarious thrill.

Admonish

to caution, advise, or counsel against something; to reprove or scold, esp. in a mild and good-willed manner: The teacher admonished him about excessive noise.

Akimbo

with hand on hip and elbow bent outward: to stand with arms akimbo.

Lassitude

weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc.; lack of energy; listlessness; languor; a condition of indolent indifference: the pleasant lassitude of the warm summer afternoon.

Licentious

sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd; unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral.

Muse

(verb) to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject; (noun) any of a number of sister goddesses