AP English : vocab unit 9-10 Flashcards
Anachronism
Anything that is out of place and time
Anon
Soon, shortly
Antebellum
Before the war, especially before the American civil war
Antediluvian
Old fashioned, before the flood
Atavism
Reversion to a primitive type; resemblance to a remote ancestor
Augury
The art of prophecy; an omen
Biennial
Happening ever two years
Chronology
Arrangement of events in time, determination of times and dates
Diurnal
Daily
Of daytime
Eon
Long, indefinite periods of time, thousands of years
Ephemeral
Short lived
Transitory
Epoch
Noteworthy period
Generation
The period of time between the birth of one group and that of its offspring
Score
Twenty people or objects
Twenty years
Tercentenary
A period of 300 years
Abut
Border on, adjoin
Bane
Cause of death, Ruin, or distress
Deign
To think it beneath ones dignity, condescend, give
Eke
To supplement, to manage to make a living with difficulty, to use frugality
Knell
To ring in a slow, solemn way, toll, to call or announce by a mourning full ringing, an omen of death or failure
Mete
To allot, distribute or apportion
Moot
Discussion or argument of a hypothetical law case, debatable, so hypothetical as to be meaningless
Mulct
To punish by a fine or by depriving of something; to extract by fraud or deceit
Plumb
Perfectly vertical, directly, to test or sound with a plumb line, to discover the facts of, to fathom, to solve or understand
Quail
To draw back in fear , lose heart or courage, cower
Roil
To make a liquid cloudy or muddy
To stir up or agitate
To make angry
Rile
Shunt
To shunt or turn to one side
To shift or switch from one track to another
Svelte
Slender and graceful
Suave
Polished
Thrall
A slave or bond,an, a person under the moral or psychological domination of someone else or some thing
Slavery
Tryst
An appointment, as by lovers, to meet
