AP Lang Unit 3

Vitriolic

Bitter, sarcastic, highly caustic or biting

(Strong acid)

Seditious

Resistant to lawful authority, having the purpose of overthrowing an established government

Proclivity

A natural or habitual inclination or tendency

(Especially of human character or behavior

Nominal

Existing in name only, not real, too small to be considered or taken seriously

Ferment

-State of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence

-to be in or work into such state, to produce alcohol by chemical action

Expiate

To make amends, to make up for, to avert

Enjoin

To direct or order, to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way, to prohibit, to urge someone

Circuitous

Roundabout, not direct

adventitious

Resulting from chance rather than gettin an inherent cause or character, accidental, not essential, acquired, not congenital

Abdominate

To have an intense dislike or hatred for

Acculturation

The modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another, the resultant blend

Ascribe

To assign or refer to, attribute

Commiserate

To sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress

Expedite

To make easy, cause to progress faster speed up

Extort

Blackmail

Inadvertent

Resulting from or marked by lack of attention, unintentional, accidental

Noncommittal

Not decisive or definite, unwilling to take a clear position or to say yes or no

Sangfroid

Composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances

Tenuous

Thin, slender, not dense, lacking clarity or sharpness of slight importance or significance, lacking a sound basis, poorly supported

Wheedle

To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end

The

Denoting one or more people or things already mentioned or assumed to be common knowledge