Last Vocab List (AP)

An abberation is

• a genre of story that includes supernatural events

• something odd, different from the norm

• an abbreviation, a shortening

• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

If you are assiduous, you are

• suspicious

• uneducated, not literate

• hardworking

• a tree that has leaves as opposed to needles

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CCSS.L.3.2F

If you living in austere conditions, it means

• you are most likely sipping drinks with umbrellas and sitting on a beach

• you are in improving conditions, the world is looking up

• you are living in a fantasy or with ridiculous assumptions

• you are living in poor or strict condition, without any niceties or embellishments

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

To extol something means

• you praise it

• you explain it

• you criticize it

• you offer a counter argument

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Effusive praise means

• it is particularly sincere

• it is gushy or overt the top

• it has flowery phrases and imagery

• it is concrete and specific

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

An iconoclast is

• the first of its kind; the first to do it

• someone who opposes valued tenants of society

• the archetype, the best example of

• a daring and intrepid adventurer

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

If you are indolent, you are

• not an AP Lang student

• unlikely to turn in assignments or even do them

• sleeping through class

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A pugnacious person is

• someone who owns a pug

• belligerent

• stubborn, or lazy

• full of pride,

  bombastic

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A spurious work of art would be

• one that is not genuine

• one that is highly sought after

• one that is hastily made, not of high quality

• one that is a model, or inspires other artists

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Pedestrian writing is writing...

• for common people

• that is old, archaic

• that is prosaic

• haphazard

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D