Ap English Language pt. 3 Flashcards
Benign
Kindly, gentle, or harmless
Accolade
Praise, distinction
Carnivorous
Meat-eating
Deflation
Decrease, depreciation
Embezzle
To steal money in violation of a trust
Fetter
To bind, chain, confine
Gluttony
Eating and drinking to excess (to much)
Heighten
To raise
Impeccable
Flawless, without fault
Legible
Readable
Invalid
A chronically I’ll or disabled person
Sullenly
Gloomy or sadly
Mournful
Feeling or expressing grief
Infallibility
The state of being incapable to fail
Blight
A disease or something that withers hopes or impairs growth
Doggedness
Stubborn, not yielding
Reiterate
To stay over again; repeat
Naught
Nothing
Vermilion
A vivid red to reddish orange color
Iridescent
Producing bright rainbow like-colors
Martyr
Person dying for his or her belief
Notoriety
Unfavorable fame
Pedantic
Ostentatious in one’s learning; overly concerned with minute details or formalisms
Parch
To dry or shrivel
Regress
To move backwards; revert to an earlier form or state
Savant
Learned person; genius
Tenuous
Weak, insubstantial
Utopia
Perfect place
Vindicate
To clear of blame; support a claim
Withdraw
Draw back, take out; person who is timid
Buoyancy
The tendency to remain afloat in a liquid
Burgeon
To begin to grow, sprout, flourish
Evanesce
To disappear gradually; fade away; vanish
Prod
To jab or poke
Shrivel
To shrink and wrinkle
Glisten
To shine with reflected light
Heresy
An opinion or doctrine that is different from established religions beliefs
Precariously
Dangerously lacking in stability
Tremendous
Extremely large; enormous
Loll
To recline lazily; to hang laxly
