AP Seminar Vocabulary List 6-10

Abhor

To consider with horror and disgust

Admonitory

Admonishing, warning

Allay

To relieve or lessen

Ameliorate

To improve or make better

Amicable

Friendly

Assert

To state or express positively

Assimilate

To consume and incorporate into

Beneficial

Conducive to well-being; helpful or useful

Benign

Kind or mild; having a gentle disposition

Blissful

Joyous; ecstatic

Boisterous

Noisy, loud, rough

Buttress

To support or reinforce, to strengthen

Castigate

To chastise or punish

Chagrined

Sorrowful, gloomy

Compassionate

Sympathetic

Concede

To acknowledge as true

Conciliate

To make peace through reasoning; to appease

Condemn

To express disapproval of - to denounce

Condemnatory

Condemning, declaring guilt

Condone

To overlook, forgive, or disregard w/out protest

Confident

Assured, certain, bold

Conjecture

To infer from incomplete evidence - to guess

Defame

To slander, libel; or discredit

Defile

To make dirty; to dishonor or corrupt

Deign

To deem something barely worthy of oneself

Demean

To debase or degrade

Demonize

To transform into or as if into a demon

Denounce

To condemn openly

Depravity

Wickedness or corruption

Deprive

To take something away from

Derive

To receive or obtain from a source

Desecrate

To defile, violate, or contaminate something sacred

Despicable

Contemptible or worthy of scorn

Detract

To distract

Devastate

To lay waste, ruin

Diffuse

To spread out, disperse in every direction

Disapprove

To have an unfavorable view of, to condemn

Disconcerted

Frustrated

Discredit

To damage the reputation of; to disgrace

Dispel

To rid one's mind of

Distinguish

To recognize as being different or distinct

Dwell

To live as an inhabitant

Effusive

Excessively emotional in an unrestrained manner

Elated

Joyful

Eliminate

To get rid of, remove

Emerge

To come forth or rise up as if from immersion

Engage

To employ; to obtain and hold the attention of

Engross

To occupy the attention of; absorb

Enhance

To increase or make greater

Escalate

To enlarge, increase, or intensify

Espouse

To take in marriage; marry; to give one's support

Essence

The basic character or quality of a thing

Evoke

To call forth or summon

Exacerbated

Intense, angry

Exalt

To raise in rank, character, status; elevate

Exemplary

Worthy of imitation; admirable

Exhort

To urge by strong argument, advice, or appeal

Exploit

To utilize to greatest advantage, to make use of unethically or selfishly

Expose

To lay open, as to something undesirable or injurious; to make known; to reveal the guilt

Extol

To praise highly

Extrapolate

To infer or estimate

Exuberant

Elaborate, flowery

Falsify

To give an untruthful account of

Fanciful

Imaginative, whimsical

Finesse

Delicacy or skill in handling a situation

Flagrant

Outrageous or scandalous

Foreboding

Warningly of something bad to come

Galvanize

To arouse to awareness or action

Genial

Cheerful, friendly

Genteel

Refined or well-bred

Guile

Deceit or treachery

Hedonistic

Pleasure-loving

Imperil

To endanger or jeopardize

Incendiary

Willfully stirring up strife, riot, rebellion

Incensed

Angry, wrathful

Indignant

Scornful, angry

Infernal

Hellish

Inflammatory

Rousing excitement, anger, violence

Insolence

Rudeness; insulting behavior

Integrity

Honesty; incorruptibility

Invoke

To call on for aid, support, inspiration

Irate

Angry, wrathful, incensed

Jocular

Joking, humorous, full of fun

Justify

To show or prove to be just or valid

Juxtapose

To place side by side for contrast or comparison

Laudatory

Praising or complimentary

Lewd

Indecent or obscene

Linger

To delay in quitting or leaving something; tarry

Livid

With rage

Lure

To attract by temptation or wiles; to entice

Luscious

Delicious; mouth-watering

Maim

To disable or disfigure, usu. by depriving of limb

Malevolent

Showing ill will; spiteful

Manifest

To show or demonstrate plainly; to reveal

Marauder

A person or animal that makes raids for booty

Melancholic

Pensive, sad, gloomy

Mirthful

Merry

Mitigate

To make or become less severe or intense; moderate

morbid

Unhealthy or unwholesome; gloomy

Mournful

Expressing sorrow, depression