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Vocab Quiz for AP English

Their Eyes Were Watching God Vocab Chs. 1-9

1. Fractious: easily annoyed or irritated

2. Commiserate: feel or express sympathy or compassion

3. Desecrate: Violate the sacred character of a place or language

4. Jostle: Make one’s way by pushing or shoving

5. Reconcile: come to terms with something or someone

6. Pugnacious: ready and able to resort to force or violence

7. Dissolution: separation into component parts

8. Temerity: fearless daring

9. Distend: cause to expand as if by internal pressure

10. Sodden: wet through and through

11. Chasten: censure severely

12. Decorum: propriety in manners and conduct

13. Incredulous: not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving

14. Surly: unfriendly and inclined toward anger or irritation

15. Promontory: a natural elevation

16. Tangible: perceptible by the sense, especially the sense of touch

17. Mien:a person’s appearance, manner or demeanor

18. Brazen: not held back by conventional ideas or behavior; bold

19. Languid: lacking spirit or vitality

20. Prostrate: stretched out and lying full length