Unit 2 - AP Vocabulary

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering all terms and definitions from Unit 2 - AP.

Abase

To lower in rank, office, prestige, or esteem

Disconsolate

Deeply unhappy; without comfort.

Dogmatic

Characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts.

Emissary

A person sent on a special mission.

Enigma

A mystery or puzzle.

Expedient

Suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance.

Foil

To prevent from succeeding.

Florid

Excessively elaborate; flushed or rosy.

Impetuous

Acting without careful thought.

Incipient

Beginning to develop.

Lethargic

Sluggish; lacking energy.

Magistrate

A civil officer or judge.

Malignant

Harmful; showing ill will.

Mortify

To embarrass greatly.

Multifarious

Having many varied parts.

Premonitory

Serving as a warning of future events.

Prognosticate

To predict or forecast.

Proletariat

The working class or people who earn money by working for wages.

Obstinate

Stubbornly refusing to change.

Recalcitrant

stubbornly resistant to authority.

Recluse

A person who lives in isolation.

Recommend

To begin again.

Scabbard

A sheath for a sword or dagger.

Scintillating

Sparkling; brilliantly clever.

Solemnity

Seriousness and dignity.

Spawn

To produce or generate.

Succour

Aid or assistance; to help.

Tacitly

Without being directly stated.

Taut

Tight; stretched.

Trepidation

Fear or anxiety about something that may happen.

Undemonstrative

Not openly expressive of feelings.

Uncouth

Lacking refinement or good manners.

Xenophobia

Fear and hatred of strangers and foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.

Yammer

To utter repeated cries of distress or sorrow.

Zealous

Filled with enthusiastic devotion to a cause.