AP English : vocab unit 9-10

Question 1

Anachronism

Answer 1

Anything that is out of place and time

Question 2

Anon

Answer 2

Soon, shortly

Question 3

Antebellum

Answer 3

Before the war, especially before the American civil war

Question 4

Antediluvian

Answer 4

Old fashioned, before the flood

Question 5

Atavism

Answer 5

Reversion to a primitive type; resemblance to a remote ancestor

Question 6

Augury

Answer 6

The art of prophecy; an omen

Question 7

Biennial

Answer 7

Happening ever two years

Question 8

Chronology

Answer 8

Arrangement of events in time, determination of times and dates

Question 9

Diurnal

Answer 9

Daily

Of daytime

Question 10

Eon

Answer 10

Long, indefinite periods of time, thousands of years

Question 11

Ephemeral

Answer 11

Short lived

Transitory

Question 12

Epoch

Answer 12

Noteworthy period

Question 13

Generation

Answer 13

The period of time between the birth of one group and that of its offspring

Question 14

Score

Answer 14

Twenty people or objects

Twenty years

Question 15

Tercentenary

Answer 15

A period of 300 years

Question 16

Abut

Answer 16

Border on, adjoin

Question 17

Bane

Answer 17

Cause of death, Ruin, or distress

Question 18

Deign

Answer 18

To think it beneath ones dignity, condescend, give

Question 19

Eke

Answer 19

To supplement, to manage to make a living with difficulty, to use frugality

Question 20

Knell

Answer 20

To ring in a slow, solemn way, toll, to call or announce by a mourning full ringing, an omen of death or failure

Question 21

Mete

Answer 21

To allot, distribute or apportion

Question 22

Moot

Answer 22

Discussion or argument of a hypothetical law case, debatable, so hypothetical as to be meaningless

Question 23

Mulct

Answer 23

To punish by a fine or by depriving of something; to extract by fraud or deceit

Question 24

Plumb

Answer 24

Perfectly vertical, directly, to test or sound with a plumb line, to discover the facts of, to fathom, to solve or understand

Question 25

Quail

Answer 25

To draw back in fear , lose heart or courage, cower

Question 26

Roil

Answer 26

To make a liquid cloudy or muddy
To stir up or agitate
To make angry
Rile

Question 27

Shunt

Answer 27

To shunt or turn to one side

To shift or switch from one track to another

Question 28

Svelte

Answer 28

Slender and graceful
Suave
Polished

Question 29

Thrall

Answer 29

A slave or bond,an, a person under the moral or psychological domination of someone else or some thing
Slavery

Question 30

Tryst

Answer 30

An appointment, as by lovers, to meet