AP VOCAB 3

Question 1

Amenities

Answer 1

any feature that provides comfort, convenience, or pleasure:

Question 2

Amorphous

Answer 2

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Question 2

Amicable

Answer 2

characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable: an amicable settlement.

Question 3

Amity

Answer 3

friendship; peaceful harmony.

Question 5

Amorphous

Answer 5

.lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless: the amorphous clouds.

Question 6

Amplify

Answer 6

1.

to make larger, greater, or stronger; enlarge; extend.

Question 7

Anachronism

Answer 7

something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: The sword is an anachronism in modern warfare.

Question 8

Analogous

Answer 8

.having analogy; corresponding in some particular: A brain and a computer are analogous.

Question 8

Anathema

Answer 8

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Question 10

Anathema

Answer 10

.a person or thing detested or loathed: That subject is anathema to him.

Question 11

Animated

Answer 11

full of life, action, or spirit; lively; vigorous: an animated debate on the death penalty.

Question 12

Animosity

Answer 12

a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action: a deep-seated animosity between two sisters; animosity against one’s neighbor.

Question 13

Annals

Answer 13

.a record of events, especially a yearly record, usually in chronological order.

Question 14

Annihilate

Answer 14

to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly: The heavy bombing almost annihilated the city.

Question 15

Anomalous

Answer 15

deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal: Advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe.

Question 16

Anonymity

Answer 16

.the state or quality of being anonymous.

Question 17

Antediluvian

Answer 17

.very old, old-fashioned, or out of date; antiquated; primitive: antediluvian ideas.

Question 18

Anthropoid

Answer 18

.resembling humans.

Question 19

Anticlimax

Answer 19

.an event, conclusion, statement, etc., that is far less important, powerful, or striking than expected.

Question 20

Antipathy

Answer 20

.a natural, basic, or habitual repugnance; aversion.

Question 21

Antithesis

Answer 21

.opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong.
2.
the direct opposite (usually followed by of or to ): Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly.

Question 22

Apex

Answer 22

.the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
2.
climax; peak; acme: His election to the presidency was the apex of his career.

Question 23

Aplomb

Answer 23

.imperturbable self-possession, poise, or assurance.
2.
the perpendicular, or vertical, position.

Question 23

Aphorism

Answer 23

.a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” (Lord Acton).

Question 24

Apocalyptic

Answer 24

.of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.

Question 25

Apostate

Answer 25

.a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc.

Question 26

Anthropologist

Answer 26

specializes in sizes that deals with oragins of human kind

Question 27

Anthropomorphic

Answer 27

.ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human, especially to a deity.