Q1 Week 3 Ap Lang Word List

Question 1

phil

Answer 1

love

Question 2

andro

Answer 2

man

Question 3

apo

Answer 3

away

Question 4

crypt

Answer 4

hidden

Question 5

tens

Answer 5

stretch

Question 6

in

Answer 6

in

Question 7

port

Answer 7

carry

Question 8

caco

Answer 8

bad

Question 9

ethos

Answer 9

custom

Question 10

pre

Answer 10

before

Question 11

cap

Answer 11

take

Question 12

ver

Answer 12

true

Question 13

ex

Answer 13

out

Question 14

tude

Answer 14

state of

Question 15

punct

Answer 15

point

Question 16

acr

Answer 16

sharp

Question 17

per

Answer 17

through

Question 18

fid

Answer 18

faith

Question 19

phon

Answer 19

sound

Question 20

tang

Answer 20

touch

Question 21

philander

Answer 21

to engage in love affairs (Ibsen’s Captain Alving was a dissolute philanderer.)

Question 22

apocrypha

Answer 22

unauthentic works (Some books of the Septuagint are regarded as apocryphal.)

Question 23

tendentious

Answer 23

slanted (Voltaire’s essays seemed more tendentious than objective.)

Question 24

importune

Answer 24

to trouble with (He was persistently urged, even importuned, for weeks.)

Question 25

apothegm

Answer 25

a pithy saying (Oscar Wilde was known for his spontaneously brilliant apothegms)

Question 26

cacoethes

Answer 26

a mania (Tom’s weird idea soon became an itch to do it, a lure, a cacoethes.)

Question 27

precept

Answer 27

a maxim (Polonius gave Ophelia precepts for her dealings with lord Hamlet.)

Question 28

veridical

Answer 28

truthful (Marco Polo’s incredible account proved to be veridical.)

Question 29

pulchritude

Answer 29

physical beauty (The declasse contest valued pulchritude over aptitude)

Question 30

expunge

Answer 30

completely remove (His divergent remarks were expunged from the record.)

Question 31

acerbity

Answer 31

sharpness of temper (From the acerbity in his voice, she knew there was a problem).

Question 32

perfidy

Answer 32

breach of faith (Quisling’s act of perfidy was a stain on Norwegian history.)

Question 33

translucent

Answer 33

semitransparent (In time, the sociopath’s vile motives became translucent.)

Question 34

cacphony

Answer 34

bad noise (the terrifying cacophony of the hurricane kept everyone awake.)

Question 35

tangible

Answer 35

touchable (she adored the tangible clouds on the museum’s Chinese landscapes.)