AP LANG vocab 3/7

Lampoon (v)

To publicly criticize someone or something by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm

Bolster (v)

To support or strengthen, to prop up

Conduit (n)

A means of transmitting or distributing, such as a channel or pipeline

Vexation (n)

The state of being annoyed or frustrated

Conflate (v)

To improperly combine two or more things; to not property differentiate

Subversive (adj)

Seeking to undermine, overthrow, or destroy (an established government, institution, authority, belief)

Effrontery (n)

Impudence; nerve; insolence; rudeness; presumption; gall; audacity

Deference (n)

Courteous regard for another's wishes; respect for someone or something

Veracity (n)

Integrity / accuracy / truthfulness

Specious (adj)

superficially plausible, but actually wrong / misleadingly attractive (in a idea/argument, not a person)