AP Vocabulary Quiz 11

Question 1

Circumvent

Answer 1

ℹDef: (1)Find a way around (an obstacle)/Overcome (a problem or difficulty), typically in a clever and surreptitious way. (Archaic)Deceive; outwit. 🔷Part Of Speech: Verb. 🔷Sentence: (1)The checkpoints were easy to circumvent/I found it quite easy to circumvent security. (Archaic)He’s circumvented her with some of his stories.

Question 2

Churlish

Answer 2

ℹDef: Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way. 🔷Part Of Speech: Adjective. 🔷Sentence: It seems churlish to complain.

Question 3

Diligence

Answer 3

ℹDef: Careful and persistent work or effort. 🔷Part Of Speech: Noun. 🔷Sentence: they set about their tasks with diligence.

Question 4

Perdition

Answer 4

ℹDef: (in Christian theology) A state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unpenitent person passes after death. 🔷Part Of Speech: Noun. 🔷Sentence: I hope that lawyer goes to perdition!

Question 5

Verity

Answer 5

ℹDef: A true principle or belief, especially one of fundamental importance./Truth. 🔷Part Of Speech: Noun. 🔷Sentence: The eternal verities/Irrefutable, objective verity.

Question 6

Edified

Answer 6

ℹDef: Instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually. 🔷Part Of Speech: Verb. 🔷Sentence: Students who have no desire to be edified should leave my classroom and take up thumb-twiddling.

Question 7

Germane

Answer 7

ℹDef: Relevant to a subject under consideration. 🔷Part Of Speech: Adjective. 🔷Sentence: That is not germane to our theme/Your question is not germane to the topic at hand.

Question 8

Augury

Answer 8

ℹDef: A sign of what will happen in the future; an omen./The work of an augur; the interpretation of omens. 🔷Part Of Speech: Noun. 🔷Sentence: They heard the sound as an augury of death/You draw very blurry lines between what is coincidence and what is augury.

Question 9

Palpable

Answer 9

ℹDef: (1)(of a feeling or atmosphere) So intense as to seem almost tangible./Plain to see or comprehend.(2)Able to be touched or felt. 🔷Part Of Speech: Adjective. 🔷Sentence: (1)A palpable sense of loss/To talk of dawn raids in the circumstances is palpable nonsense.(2)The palpable bump at the bridge of the nose.

Question 10

Felicity

Answer 10

ℹDef: (1)Intense happiness.(2)The ability to find appropriate expression for one’s thoughts./A particularly effective feature of a work of literature or art. 🔷Part Of Speech: Noun. 🔷Sentence: (1)Domestic felicity(2)Speech that pleased by its accuracy, felicity, and fluency/The King James version, thanks to its felicities of language, ruled supreme.