AP Vocabulary Quiz 1

Question 1

Ameliorate

Answer 1

Def: make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better. Part of Speech: Verb. Ex: In a large city like Philadelphia, city council should be trying to find out how to best ameliorate the living conditions in egregious areas of the city.

Question 2

Conserve

Answer 2

Def: protect (something, especially an environmentally or culturally important place or thing) from harm or destruction/prevent the wasteful or harmful overuse of (a resource). Part of Speech: Verb. Ex: In hopes to conserve our Governmental resources, we should remain law abiding citizens.

Question 3

Detriment

Answer 3

Def: the state of being harmed or damaged.(2) a cause of harm or damage. Part of Speech: Noun. Ex: Educational strategies such as grade inflation can be viewed as detrimental towards a student’s academic progression.

Question 4

Exotic

Answer 4

Def: originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country. (2) attractive or striking because colorful or out of the ordinary. (3) of a kind not used for ordinary purposes or not ordinarily encountered. Part of Speech: Adjective. Ex: The foreign policies held under new management engendered employees to quit with complaints regarding the exotic leadership.

Question 5

Folly

Answer 5

Def: lack of good sense; foolishness./a foolish act, idea, or practice/a costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park/a theatrical revue, typically with glamorous female performers. Part of Speech: Noun. Ex: Please excuse the follies of my youth, for they like to indulge in adulteration.

Question 6

Allegory

Answer 6

Def: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. Part of Speech: Noun. Ex: “Animal Farm, a novella written by George Orwell in 1945, is an allegorical commentary on what went wrong when Czarist Russia evolved into Communist Russia”(Study.com).

Question 7

Alliteration

Answer 7

Def: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Part of Speech: Noun. Ex: Mr. and Mrs. Margaret matched or meetmates.com.

Question 8

Allusion

Answer 8

Def: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. Part of Speech: Noun. Because of lead singer, Tyler Joseph’s history with Christianity, Twenty one pilots’ songs have a lot of Biblical allusions.

Question 9

Anapestic Meter

Answer 9

Def:
Anapests are a less common variety of metrical foot. The anapest has three syllables - unstressed, unstressed, stressed. Part of Speech: Adjective. Ex: Comprehend ( (unstressed, unstressed, stressed).

Question 10

Anaphora

Answer 10

Def: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Part of Speech: Noun. Ex: After the torchlight red on sweaty faces

After the frosty silence in the gardens

After the agony in stony places

The shouting and the crying

Prison and palace and reverberation

Of thunder of spring over distant mountains

He who was living is now dead

We who were living are now dying

With a little patience - The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot