AP Notes 241-260

Question 1

A formal or discriminating oppression of praise

Answer 1

Encomium

Question 2

Flimsy

Answer 2

Gossamer

Question 3

An image broken

Answer 3

Iconoclast

Question 4

Foolishly and tearfully affectionate

Answer 4

Maudlin

Question 5

Use of many words without necessity

Answer 5

Verbiage

Question 6

To overwhelm with wordy abuse

Answer 6

Vituperate

Question 7

Offensive or disgusting, also harmful, unwholesome

Answer 7

Noisome

Question 8

Dealing with matters difficult to be understood

Answer 8

Abstruse

Question 9

On the point of dying

Answer 9

Moribund

Question 10

The lowest point

Answer 10

Nadir

Question 11

Sense of injury

Answer 11

Umbrage

Question 12

Making a loud outcry

Answer 12

Vociferous

Question 13

Lustful

Answer 13

Lascivious

Question 14

Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree

Answer 14

Quixotic

Question 15

Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course

Answer 15

Aberration

Question 16

Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination

Answer 16

Acumen

Question 17

Anything forbidden, as by social usage

Answer 17

Anathema

Question 18

Harshness or roughness of temper

Answer 18

Asperity

Question 19

Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit

Answer 19

Bumptious

Question 20

Rebellious

Answer 20

Contumacious