AP Vocabulary 7 (5 and 6 Review)

Auspicious

• favorable, or a sign of future success

• seemingly absurd

• self-contradictory

• cheerful

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Gravity

• extreme or alarming importance; seriousness.

• Something that causes pain or suffering

• Designed to be useful and practical rather than attractive

• Generous or forgiving towards a rival or less powerful person

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

affliction

• the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect

• Designed to be useful and practical rather than attractive

• Something that causes pain or suffering

• extreme or alarming importance; seriousness.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Contentious means

• likely to cause an argument

• likely to appease or calm others

• likely to win

• likely to lose

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Magnanimous

• extreme or alarming importance; seriousness.

• Generous or forgiving towards a rival or less powerful person

• a reference to a popular idea, event, or person

• the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

allusion

• the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect

• Generous or forgiving towards a rival or less powerful person

• a reference to a popular idea, event, or person

• Something that causes pain or suffering

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

malapropism

• The practice of incorporating designs favoring practicality over aesthetics

• of an event that is extreme or alarming in importance

• Generous or forgiving towards a rival or less powerful person

• the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect

Something utilitarian would be

• aesthetically pleasing

• effective

• grand

• impressive

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

to be quixotic is to be

• confusing

• unrealistic

• often confused

• often sickly

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Someone who takes pains to be inoffensive or unprovocative could be called

• quixotic

• contentious

• satirical

• anodyne

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6