Second Six Weeks Vocabulary PreAp

A very sort story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.

• Fable
• Allegory
• Allusion
• Apostrophe

Yield to another's wish or opinion

• Accede
• Abscond
• Arcane
• Ambivalent

Something that is detested or shunned

• Abject
• Abnegation
• Anathema
• Arcane

Using long and difficult words with the intent of making people think you know more than you do.

• Bereft
• Bilk
• Bombastic
• Bane

In persuasion it is clear, logical and convincing

• Camaraderie
• Cogent
• Circumvent
• Cognizant

A scarce supply or lack of

• Dearth
• Debacle
• Dirge
• Disparage

Pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

• Didactic
• Disparate
• Dogmatic
• Denigrate

Selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

• Egregious
• Emulate
• Eclectic
• Evanescent

Written in the form of letters or correspondence

• Epistolary
• Ephemeral
• Emulate
• Espouse

Hinder or prevent as an effort, plan or desire

• Fallacious
• Fetter
• Foil
• Fortuitious