AP Lang Vocab

Celibate (adjective)

• Abstaining from intercourse; unmarried

Fortuitous (adjective)

• Happening by chance or accident

Recapitulate (verb)

• To summarize; to repeat briefly

Perfunctory (adjective)

• Done without care; in a routine fashion

Baroque (adjective)

• Overly decorated

Hedonism (noun)

• Pursuit of pleasure, especially of the senses

Obloquy (noun)

• Strong disapproval; a bad reputation resulting from public criticism

Debacle (noun)

• A complete failure; a total collapse

Quasi- (adjective)

• Resembling; seeming; half

Besmirch (verb)

• To make dirty; to stain

Imperative (adjective)

• Extremely necessary; vitally important

Sacrosanct (adjective)

• Extremely holy

Sadistic (adjective)

• Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others

Demeanor (noun)

• Behavior; manner of conducting oneself

Facetious (adjective)

• Comical; jocular; flippant

clin

• To lean or to bend

pon/pos

• To put or to place

hyper

• Excessive

therm

• Heat

com

• Together

im

• Into or not

dis

• apart

de

• down