ap lit vocab 4

"question"

"answer"

"abstract"

"relating to or involving general ideas or qualities rather than specific people

"aggrandizement"

"making something appear great or greater; praising highly;"

"animosity"

"a strong feeling of dislike or hatred"

"arduous"

"very difficult"

"autonomy"

"existing or acting apart from others; self-governing"

"bovine"

"relating to cows; looking or acting like a cow"

"catalyst"

"a person or thing acting as the stimulus in bringing about a result"

"circumspect"

"thinking carefully about possible risks before doing or saying something"

"contentious"

"likely to cause people to argue or disagree; involving a lot of arguing"

"dearth"

"a shortage

"deprecate"

"to criticize or express disapproval of (someone or something)"

"didactic"

"designed or intended to teach people something

"disposition"

"the usual attitude or mood of a person or animal; : a tendency to act or think in a particular way or to develop a disease

"eclectic"

"including things taken from many different sources"

"endemic"

"growing or existing in a certain place or region; common in a particular area or field"

"eulogy"

"a speech that praises someone who has died"

"expunge"

"to remove something completely; to strike out

"flagrant"

"very bad; too bad to be ignored"

"garbled"

"to cause (a word

"hegemony"

"the social

"imminent"

"happening very soon; ready to take place"

"impugn"

"to criticize (a person's character

"inert"

"unable to move; moving or acting very slowly; in chemistry

"insurgent"

"rising in opposition to civil authority or established leadership"

"kinetic"

"of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith"

"loquacious"

"liking to talk and talking smoothly and easily; given to fluent or excessive talk"

"meticulous"

"marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details"

"nefarious"

"evil or immoral"

"opulent"

"very comfortable and expensive; very wealthy"

"peerless"

"having no equal; better than all others"

"placate"

"to stop someone from being angry; to appease; to pacify"

"predilection"

"a natural liking for something : a tendency to do or to be attracted to something"

"proselytize"

"to try to persuade people to join a religion

"raze"

"to tear down completely; level to the ground"

"renaissance"

"a situation or period of time when there is a new interest in something that has not been popular in a long time; a period of new growth or activity"

"reticent"

"restrained in expression

"savory"

"having a pleasant taste or smell; having a pleasant taste or smell; having a spicy or salty quality without being sweet; morally good"

"sordid"

"very bad or dishonest; very dirty"

"stultifying"

"causing someone or something to become dull

"surreptitious"

"done in a secret way"

"tenet"

"a belief or idea that is very important to a group"

"turpitude"

"a very evil quality or way of behaving"

"untenable"

"not capable of being defended against attack or criticism"

"viable"

"capable of being done or used; capable of succeeding; capable of living or of developing into a living thing"

"volatile"

"likely to change in a very sudden or extreme way; having or showing extreme or sudden changes of emotion; likely to become dangerous or out of control"