AP lang vocab. #4

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• Deride (derision)

• Tired; languid;weak

• Engender

• To ridicule; to make fun of

• Acclaim

• To create: to produce

• Lethargic

• Praise; applause; admiration

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• Novel

• New; unusual

• Fanatic

• One who is very devoted to a cause or an idea

• Solemn

• Undecided

• Ambivalent

• Serious; grave

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• Dispassionate

• Inadequate; minimal

• Fervor

• Practical

• Reticent

• Quiet; uncommunicative; taciturn

• Scanty

• Free from passion or spirit

• Pragmatic

• Passion; zeal; great enthusiasm

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• Vacillate

• Instructive

• Didactic

• To lighten or relieve

• Deference (defer)

• To waiver between choices

• Alleviate

• A show of respect

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• Conspicuous

• Easily seen; out in the open

• Endorse

• Carelessness; neglect; indifference

• Negligence

• To approve of; to give support to

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• The soldiers were ordered to appear before a disciplinary council on charges of --------------------

• Alleviate

• Not one bank teller made her ------------- the checks even though she was receiving the funds

• Negligence

• She -------- between studying economics and languages

• Conspicuous

• The building is

  ------------- and strikingly shaped

• Endorse

• Nowadays, a great deal can be done to

  ------------ back pain

• Vacillate

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• Out of ------- to him, I lowered my head as he prayed

• Pragmatic

• In totalitarian societies, art exists for --------- purposes

• Didactic

• There was a sensible and --------- solution

• Deference (defer)

• He spoke in the flat, -------- tone of a lecturer

• Scanty

• So far, what -------- evidence we have points to two suspects

• Dispassionate

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• His --------- little face broke into smiles

• Ambivalent

• As a -------- sort, the England defender was reluctant to hog the limelight

• Fervor

• Protesters found a ------- way of demonstrating against steeply rising oil prices

• Novel

• She remained ------- about her marriage

• Solemn

• Sara had attended church more as a social function than from religious ------

• Reticent

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• It just shows what happens when you let the ---------- take over

• Engender

• The work of these artists is frequently

  -----, for being both too ugly and not ugly enough

• Deride

• She has been ---- for her leading roles

• Fanatic

• It can ----- feelings of sympathy or pity, outrage and disgust

• Acclaim

• He felt too miserable and ----to get dressed

• lethargic