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AP English Ch. 11 Vocab
ap english language and comp chapter 11 vocabulary
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Language - English
12th Grade
11/16/2011

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- abominate (v)
abominable
abominably
abomination
Definition
to hate, to detest, to loathe, to abhor, to execrate
Term
bellicose
- bellicosely (adj)
bellicosity
bellicoseness
Definition
war-like, quarrelsome, belligerent,
Term
0/- convolution (n)
convoluted(ness)
Definition
rolling or coiling together, a winding condition, a whorl, sinuosity, bending, turning, curving
Term
- emaciate (v)
emaciation
emaciated
emaciating
Definition
to produce an unhealthy leanness or
to waste away
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+ germane (adj)
germanely
germaneness
Definition
to the point, closely related,
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+ intrinsic (adj)
intrinsically
Definition
inherent, natural or native to the thing itself
not = to extrinsic (external, not natural to the thing)
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objurgatory (adj)
objurgation
objurgatorily
objurgate
Definition
rebuking, chiding, reproachful, critical and condescendingly so
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- phlegmatic (adj)
phlegmatically
to phlegmatize
Definition
sluggish, torpid, dull, unperturbable, not easily angered, cool-headed
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o/+/- rusticate (v)
rusticity
Definition
to go rural, to live in the country, to take a sojourn in nature, rustic, countrified
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o undulate (v)
undulation
undulatory
undulating
undulant
Definition
to move in ripples, to move in waves
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- abrogate (v)
abrogation
abrogable
Definition
to cancel, repeal, annul, rescind, nullify. to abolish by formal means
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o aquiline (adj)
Definition
eagle-like
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o contemporary (adj/n)
Definition
of the same age, existing at the same time/of the current time
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- disconcerted (adj)
disconcertedly
-ness
Definition
confused, abashed, ruffled, taken by surprise, discombobulated, upset, disarranged, disordered, perturbed
Term
+ frugal (adj)
frugality
frugaly
Definition
to be thrifty, economical, prudent in financial matters
Term
+ jocose (adj)
-ly
-ness
jocosity
Definition
jolly, playful, humorous, jesting, giving to joking, waggish, facetious
Term
o metaphysics (n)
metaphysical
metaphysician
Definition
beyond physics, beyond the natural world,
the philosophy of life's first questions
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- paranoid (adj)
paranoia(c)
Definition
the faulty belief that everyone is out to get you
to suffer delusions of persecutions
Term
+ pristine (adj)
-ly, -ness
Definition
unspoiled, fresh, pure, unsullied, uncorrupted
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- sedition (n)
seditious
seditiously
Definition
treason, rebellion, the inciting of rebellion, mutiny, insurrection, insubordination
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