AP Lit 1-50

Want

To Lack something crucial

Augment

To increase, make bigger

glean

To pick out little by little

Panache

Great style, flair and flamboyance

Cachet

prestige, distinction, high status having the quality of being admired

Vex

to irk, to exasperate, to trouble and annoy

Sojourn

to dwell in a place (not home) for some time: the temporary staying or dwelling in a place

Compunction

a sense of guilt or remorse, a feeling sorry for wrong doing

Orient

Asian culture and nations

Occident

The west, western

Mitigate

To soften or reduce the harsh effects of something

Exonerate

To free or clear from blame or guilt

Culpable

Guilty

Tangible

So intense as to seem physically touchable, perceptibly through touch

Impalpable

Not able to be physically touched

Poignant

Deeply emotionally moving, bittersweet

Nuance

A shade or slight, subtle variation of meaning, color

Clarion

Clear in sound or meaning as a trumpet call

Stentorian

At times rather pompously yet grandly and powerfully loud

Yearn

To wish longingly for

Yon/Yonder

Over there, at a distance but within sight

Yondermost

Furthest off

Of Yore

Expression for times long past

Vitriolic

Viciously caustic, scathing

Burgeon

To expand and spread rapidly

It behooves one to do something

to do what is fitting and in one's best interests

Angst

on going anxiety and worry

Lament

to express sadness, to complain sadly

Woe

Despair

Doleful, Dolorus

Sad, sorrowful

Dirge

Solemn, dignified, slow funeral march

Antecedent

That which comes before

Liminal

Situated at a threshold, at a place betwixt and between

Belligerent

Hostile, aggressively willing to fight

Bellicose

Waging or preparing towage war, aggressively militant and hostile

Cladestine, Covert

Hidden, secret, undercover

Overt

In the open, ostensible, apparent

Xenophobic

Fearful and hating those who are and that which is strange, foreign, different, especially of culturally

Panoply

A full suit of armor, full ceremonial attire or equipment, an impressive display

Panacea

A cure all

Anathema

A curse, something accursed and loathsome and hated

Elixer

Marvelous beverage with curative or life prolonging properties

Plethora

A great number

Annihilate

To destroy utterly

Appease

To pacify, placate, calm down and satisfy

Cede

To yield, to give away, to acknowledge

Decimate

To destroy a large percentage of something

Embargo

A legal blockade, a prohibition, or an intangible obstacle formally preventing something form happening

Hegemony

Political or cultural dominance of a stronger nation over another