AP English 11 Vocab List 4

Question 1

Artifice

Answer 1

A clever trick

Question 2

Decimate

Answer 2

To destroy a great number of

Question 3

Deride

Answer 3

To laugh at in scorn or contempt

Question 4

Germinal

Answer 4

Being in the earliest stage of development

Question 5

Inimical

Answer 5

Unfavorable; harmful; unfriendly; hostile

Question 6

Innocuous

Answer 6

Not harmful or injurious; harmless

Question 7

Insatiable

Answer 7

Incapable of being satisfied or appeased

Question 8

Ludicrous

Answer 8

Causing laughter because of absurdity; ridiculous; laughable

Question 9

Pedantic

Answer 9

Overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching

Question 10

Raconteur

Answer 10

A person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly

Question 11

Refractory

Answer 11

Hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient

Question 12

Spate

Answer 12

A sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring

Question 13

Sublimate

Answer 13

Purified or exalted, sublimated

Question 14

Throes

Answer 14

A violent spasm or pang: a sharp attack of emotion

Question 15

Vapid

Answer 15

Lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; without liveliness