Dagen AP Lang/SAT Sem 2 Vocab

Undermine

1) Dig a hole under something, make it collapse

2) Injure/destroy by insidious activity that mgiht cause a sudden effect

3) Weaken/collapse a foundation/underlying support

Indifferent

Without interest/concern, not caring, apathetic

Not inclined towards either side

Exigence

State of urgency

The needs or stuff that need an immediate action…?

Moment/event that motivates someone to write/talk about something (issue, problem, etc.)

Contentious

Tending to argument/strife

Causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy

Something that is very up for dispute/likely to cause disagreement

Reprove

Scold, reprimand, criticze or correct — but gently??

But also to disapprove of strongly

Profligate

Wildly extravagant and a waste — abandoned to vice

Utterly & Shamelessly immoral

Corroborate

To support/prove a statement true with info + evidence — to second

To make certain/confirm something

Expository

Relating to exposition (a setting forth of meaning or purpose)

Serving to explain, set forth something

Aesthetic

Relating to art/beauty, concerned with notions of beauty (adj)

Someones ideas about style or the principles of a type of style (n)

Prodigal

Someone who does wasteful expenditure

“Prodigal son” is someone who does wasteful expenditure of usually inheritance as goes home and is like redeemed?too

Complacent

too satisfied with something so you don’t feel the need for change, you let your guard down

self-satisfied w/o awareness of potential dangers

Guile

Insidious cunning to get something, crafty deception

The ability to deceive/trick people

Enigma

Puzzling/incomprehensible situation/occur, also can be a puzzling person

Articulate (adj/verb)

(Adj) Uttered clearly w/ syllables OR Explained/expressed in a clear and formulated way, w/ clarity + effectiveness

(Verb) Put into words, make distinct, or utter w/ syllables

Virulent

Actively poisonous, venemous

OR

violently/spitefully hostile

Servile

Obedient to authority, yielding slavishly

of or benefitting of a menial position

Banal

Repeated too often to the point of overuse, devoid of freshness/originality

Adversary

Enemy, foe, a person or group that you oppose

Censure

An expression of harsh disapproval/criticsm

Assuage

To make something less painful, or just milder & less severe in general

Also to appease/satisfy

LESSEN THE INTENSITY

Scrupulous

Careful about doing everything correctly & precisely

Also does everything morally correctly or tries to — has scruples (moral standards) — principled

Hedonistic

In pursuit of pleasure — does hedonism which is just get pleasure & prio it

Apocryphal

Something that isn’t authentic or you doubt it

Basically something that might be fraudulent

Stringent

Something is super strict and rigorous when it comes to rules

Hackneyed

Lacking in freshness/originality

Stale, commonplace

Extol

to praise highly, laud

Insipid

Dull, doesn’t have anything of interest or stimulation, bland

Expedite

Make faster, accelerate the process of

Dogmatic

Stick to an opinion very strongly as if they’re facts

Profuse

pouring forth liberally, with great abundance

spend/give in large amounts

Expedient

Suitable for getting particular ends

You propose something that’s advantageous, proper under some circumstances, or opportune

Prosaic

Something that is like prose, not poetry

Dull, lacking imagination and commonplace

Astute

Very aware, sharp ability to notice things — mentally sharp

keen perception — sagacious

Engender

To bring something about

To cause to exist/to produce

Deride

insult contemptuously & laugh, to subject to bitter & cruel ridicule

Reticent

inclined to be quiet and uncommunicative, reserved

Pragmatic

being practical — doing things that are realistic and good in specific situations with reason and logic and not theory

Didactic

Designed to convey information or teach/instruct

Conciliate

appease (conciliatory) — try to get stuff through goodwill

Placate/win over

Disparage

Belittle the importance/value of something

Speak of or treat slightingly (like a slight against them)

Preclude

To remove/make impossible in advance — prevent the existence of something

Indolence

inclined toward laziness, slothlike

Inadvertent

Unintentionally

Fortuitous

Fortunate, lucky

having occured by chance, accidentally (but good!) (probably not this def)

Credulous

Ready to believe on a slim amount of evidence, gullible

Esoteric

Only understood by specifically knowledgable people/knowledge restricted to few people (by design)

Pretentious

kind of a snob, too much of an ego about one’s merits

Expressive false and unjustified/exaggerated worth/importance

Pedestrian (secondary meaning)

Something common, lacking in vitality/imagination

Also can mean done on foot

Sycophant

Someone who praises power in order to get approval

A self-seeking, servile flatterer

Candid

Expressing opinions in an honest manner — frank

Also sever critique