AP Lang Vocab Quiz 2

Mrs Furlong

Pecuniary

Involving money

Plight

To pledge or promise

Presumptuous

Too bold or forward; overconfident; arrogance

Subversive

Tending or seeking to overthrow or destroy

Vacuous

Having or showing lack of intelligence, interest, or thought

Avocation

Something one does in addition to regular work and usually for pleasure; a hobby

Capricious

Tending to change abruptly and without apparent reason

Disparity

Inequality or difference as in rank, amount or quality; unlikeness

Efficacy

Power to produce effects of intended results

Epsitle

A letter (especially a long formula instructive letter)

Hospice

A place of shelter for travelers (sometimes maintained by monks)

Impetus

The force with which a body moves against resistance; anything that stimulates activity

Moribund

Dying; coming to an end

Reticent

Habitually silent or uncommunicative; disinclinced to speak readily

Vacillate

To sway to and fro; fluctuate or oscillate