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AP Packet #2
Vocabulary Terms
34
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10/09/2005

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Shirk
Definition
To avoid or neglect a duty or responsibility
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Abet
Definition
To approve, encourage, and support an action or a plan of action
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Disenfranchise
Definition
To deprive of voting rights
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Inveigh
Definition
To give vent to angry disapproval; protest vehemently
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Deride
Definition
To speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth
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Eulogy
Definition
A laudatory speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died
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Excoriation
Definition
To tear or wear off the skin

To censure strongly; denounce
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Exhortative
Definition
Acting or intended to encourage, incite, or advise.
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Judicial
Definition
Of, relating to, or proper to courts of law or to the administration of justice
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Satiric
Definition
Exposing human folly to ridicule
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Duplicitous
Definition
Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech
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Tongue-in-cheek
Definition
Meant or expressed ironically or facetiously
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Superfluous
Definition
Being beyond what is required or sufficient
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Licentiousness
Definition
Lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint, especially in sexual conduct
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Throng
Definition
A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together
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Lavishes
Definition
Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion
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Requite
Definition
To avenge
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Rapine
Definition
Forcible seizure of another's property
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Sedition
Definition
Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state
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Posit
Definition
To place firmly in position
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Indolent
Definition
Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy
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Allusive
Definition
Containing or characterized by indirect references
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Garish
Definition
Marked by strident color or excessive ornamentation; gaudy
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Conjuror
Definition
One that performs magic tricks; a magician
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Futility
Definition
Lack of importance or purpose
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Disillusioned
Definition
To free or deprive of illusion
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Stoic
Definition
One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain
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Epicurean
Definition
Devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure, especially to the enjoyment of good food and comfort
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Profligate
Definition
Recklessly wasteful
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Abstemiousness
Definition
Eating and drinking in moderation
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Sententiously
Definition
Terse and energetic in expression
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Maladroit
Definition
An inept person
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Hectoring
Definition
To intimidate or dominate in a blustering way
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Husbandry
Definition
The act or practice of cultivating crops and breeding and raising livestock
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