AP Lang Round 1 Words of the Day

Feckless

Ineffective; incompetent; futile

Paucity

Smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness

Abstruse

difficult to comprehend

Disparate

Distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar

Elicit

to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke

supposition

something that is assumed; assumption; hypothesis

Quotidian

No special quality or interest; ordinary, commonplace

insouciant

free from concern, anxiety, worry

interminable

monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant

disconcerting

disturbing to one’s composure or self-possession; upsetting; discomfiting

tenuous

lackluster in strength, with little to no foundation

surmise

to conjecture or guess

verisimilitude

the appearance or semblance of truth or reality; quality of seeming true

Ameliorate

To make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfacotry; improve

Exacerbate

to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (diesease, i’ll, feeling, etc…) aggravate

Preclude

presence, existence, or occurrence of'; make impossible

indiscriminate

not discerning; lacking in care, judgment and sensitivity (done in a random manner)

Circumvent

to go around or bypass

colloquial

characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal

Latent

present but not visible, apparent, or activated; existing as potential