AP Lang week 5 vocab

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deride

to ridicule, to mock (verb)

syn-to scorn

ant-praise

desiccated

dried up (adj)

despicable

contemptible, hateful (adj)

syn-vile, base

ant-laudable, worthy

desultory

wandering from subject to subject (adj)

syn-disconnected; rambling

deviate

to turn aside (verb)

syn-digress, stray

diadem

a crown (noun)

diaphanous

very sheer and light (adj)

syn-transparent, gossamer

ant-opaque

dichotomy

a division into two parts (noun)

ebullient

enthusiastic (adj)

syn-exuberant

ant-dejected, dispirited

eclectic

choosing from various sources (adj)

syn-discriminating, selective

ant-narrow

edify

improve someone morally (verb)

effete

worn out; barren

syn-exhausted; spent and sterile

ant-vital, vigorous

egregious

remarkably bad; outrageous (adj)

syn-flagrant, gross

ant-moderate

elegy

a sad or mournful poem (noun)

is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?

elicit

to draw fourth; to call fourth (verb)

di-

two

-ious/-ous

having the quality of