AP Vocab 2.1

Someone who defends or supports a person or cause. It can also be a verb for the act of defending or supporting.

• Adversary

• Censure

• Extol

• Advocate

If you don't ________________the glass for the windshield, it will shatter the first time a pebble hits it.

• censure

• advocate

• temper

• enhance

Not likely to disappear, but rather likely to last a long time and/or be remembered.

• phenomenon

• enduring

• gravity

• censure

If you speak, dress or behave this way, you are doing it in a manner that almost demands a response from someone else:

• contemporary

• banal

• provocative

• indulgent

A person who is inconsistent and unreliable is also said to be this...

• erratic

• insipid

• banal

• contemporary

This is a rebuke or correction. It usually is not meant as a punishment, but as a stain on someone's record, indicating that they did something wrong and it has been noted and not forgotten.

• depravity

• advocate

• adversary

• censure

If someone is so tolerant that they never discipline those under his authority, you could say that this person is too...too what?

• contemporary

• indulgent

• banal

• provocative

Generally, this verb means to improve something...most of you don't use this word enough!

• profound

• temper

• enhance

• censure

A noun and sometimes an adjective, this term refers to the seriousness or importance of an issue or situation.

• adversary

• enhancement

• banality

• gravity

This COULD be an enemy, or it could simply be someone you are competing against.

• advocate

• adversary

• contemporary

• phenomenon