AP Notes 261-280

Question 1

Very learned

Answer 1

Erudite

Question 2

Nonchalant

Answer 2

Insouciant

Question 3

Given to shedding tears

Answer 3

Lachrymose

Question 4

Talkative

Answer 4

Loquacious

Question 5

Alluring by false or gaudy show

Answer 5

Meretricious

Question 6

Wicked in the extreme

Answer 6

Nefarious

Question 7

Adj-calm and peaceful

Answer 7

Halcyon

Question 8

Adj- outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time.

Answer 8

Archaic

Question 9

N-stillness; motionless; quality of being at rest

Answer 9

Quiescence

Question 10

N-profession or principle of teaching, or instructing

Answer 10

Pedagogy

Question 11

Adj-exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

Answer 11

Obsequious

Question 12

Adj- marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness

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Imperturbable

Question 13

Adj-unyielding; hard hearted; intractable

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Obdurate

Question 14

Adj-revealing no emotion

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Impassive

Question 15

N-a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

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Paean

Question 16

Adj-lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression

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Obtuse

Question 17

Adj-rustic and pastoral; characteristic or rural areas and their inhabitants

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Bucolic

Question 18

V-to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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Adulterate

Question 19

Adj-indifferent or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

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Stoic

Question 20

Adj-tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

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Evanescent