AP English 11: Vocab Lists

...and (8-15)
8. Staunch: To stop or check
9. Atrophy: Wasting away
10. Cogent: Convincing or logical
11. Innocuous: Harmless or innocent
12. Assiduous: Diligent or persevering
13. Misanthropic: People-hating
14. Assuage: To alleviate or moderate
15. Ascetic: Abstinent or frugal

Vocab List #22: (1-7)
1. Querulous: Cantankerous or argumentative
2. Conciliatory: Appeasing or pacifying
3. Misogynist: A woman hater
4. Ebullient: Cheerful or happy
5. Banal: Ordinary or dull
6. Mitigate: To alleviate or ease
7. Pernicious: Destructive or deadly

Vocab List #18:1. Conundrum: A puzzle or mystery 2. Regale: To entertain or amuse 3. Sycophant: A flatterer 4. Catharsis: An experience or feeling of spiritual release and purification 5. Machinations: Secret plans or schemes 6. Castigate: To criticize or reprimand 7. Amorphous: Vague of shapeless

Vocab List #16: 1. Etymology: The study of word origins (N) 2. Odious: Hateful or revolting (adj.) 3. Bulwark: A fortification or embankment (N) 4. Posterity: All future generations (N) 5. Affable: pleasant or friendly (adj.) 6. Alacrity: Eagerness or enthusiasm (N) 7. Burgeon: To multiply or flourish (V)

Part 3: 14. Resplendent: Splendid or magnificent (adj.) 15. Acuity: Insight or perception (adj.)

Part 2: 8. Epicurean: Devoted to sensual pleasures and luxury, especially good food (adj.) 9. Resonant: Ringing or echoing (adj.) 10. Tenuous: Weak or fragile (adj.) 11. Acrid: Bitter or unpleasant (adj.) 12. Epistolary: Associated with correspondence by letters (adj.) 13. Bourgeois: associated with affluent middle-class people, materialistic in outlook (adj.)

AP Vocab List #14: (Part 1) 1. Cryptic: Mysterious or obscure (adj.) 2. Ephemeral: Short-lived or passing (adj.) 3. Plummet: To fall or tumble (V) 4. Bolster: To boost or strengthen (V) 5. Acquiesce: To agree or comply (V) 6. Bombastic: Pompous or verbose (adj.) 7. Curtail: To limit or restrict (V)

By the way. invite all the other kids u know from AP English, so we can get as many people as possible to give vocab lists.

so, my idea is that, each week. some kind person puts the vocab list up on monday. we could have a rotation. but whatever. i just thought this would make it easier.

*13. "light of duSk"*

Vocab List: (Part 2) 8. Abstruse: Complex or puzzling (adj.) 9. Blithe: Carefree or casual (adj.) 10. Pliable: Flexible or bendable (adj.) 11. Headstrong: Determined or stubborn (adj.) 12. Enunciation: Accent or diction (N) 13. Crepuscular: resembling the fading light of duck (adj.) 14. Rescind: To withdraw or repeal (V) 15. Laconic: Brief or short (adj.)

Vocab List #13: (Part 1) 1. Plumage: feathers of a bird (N) 2. Enshroud: to cover or obscure something (V) 3. Nepotism: A bias or discrimination (N) 4. Hedonism: pleasure-seeking or high-living (N) 5. Abstemious: self-denying or moderate (adj.) 6. Oblique: slanted or at an angle (adj.) 7. Envenom: to make angry or bitter (V)