AP English : Vocab unit 13-14

Question 1

ambiguous

Answer 1

subject to more than one interpretation; indefinite

Question 2

atonement

Answer 2

amends for wrong-doing; expiation

Question 3

bicameral

Answer 3

composed of two houses, chambers or branches

Question 4

decalogue

Answer 4

the Ten commandments

Question 5

decimate

Answer 5

to destroy a great number or proportion of

Question 6

dichotomy

Answer 6

division into two usually contradictory parts or opinions

Question 7

double-think

Answer 7

the belief in two contradictory ideas at the same time

Question 8

millennium

Answer 8

a span of a thousand years; a period of general righteousness and happiness

Question 9

nihilism

Answer 9

total rejection of established laws and institutions; total destructiveness toward the world and oneself

Question 10

penultimate

Answer 10

next to the last

Question 11

primeval

Answer 11

original; belonging to the first or earliest ages

Question 12

protocol

Answer 12

forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of states; the first copy of a treaty or document

Question 13

quatrain

Answer 13

a stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes

Question 14

quintessence

Answer 14

the most perfect embodiment of something; the purest most typical instance

Question 15

untrammeled

Answer 15

unhampered; unrestrained

Question 16

adjudicate

Answer 16

to hear and settle a case by judicial procedure

Question 17

appellate

Answer 17

having power to hear appeals and to reverse lower court decisions

Question 18

collusion

Answer 18

a secret agreement for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose; conspiracy

Question 19

deposition

Answer 19

testimony under oath, especially a written statement by a witness for use in court in his or her absence.

Question 20

equity

Answer 20

something that is just, impatrial, and fair; the value of a business or property in excess of any claim against it; justice applied in circumstances no covered by law

Question 21

exhume

Answer 21

to dig out of the earth; disinter; reveal

Question 22

incommunicado

Answer 22

without the means or right of communication with others, as one held in solitary confinement

Question 23

intestate

Answer 23

having made no valid will; one who dies without a legal will

Question 24

ipso facto

Answer 24

by the fact itself; by that very fact

Question 25

lien

Answer 25

the right to take and hold or sell the property of a debtor as security or payment for a debt, mortgage.

Question 26

litigation

Answer 26

legal action of process

Question 27

perjury

Answer 27

the deliberate, willful giving of false, misleading, or incomplete testimony by a witness under oath in a criminal proceeding

Question 28

pettifogger

Answer 28

a petty, quibbling, unscrupulous lawyer, a shyster

Question 29

tort

Answer 29

any wrongful act not involving breach of contract for which a civil suit can be brought

Question 30

tribunal

Answer 30

a seat or court of justice