AP Vocab Review 3.1

Click on all the words here that have a positive connotation. There are three.

• Felicitious

• Resplendant

• Fatuous

• Sanguine

• Feckless

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5B

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

If you are socially awkward and come off as unsophisticated, you may be labelled . . .

• Indelible

• Pecuniary

• Gauche

• Opulent

• Effete

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

If you are displaying excessive pride and arrogance, you are most likely guility of . . .

• Truncation

• Hubris

• Enervation

• Assidousness

• Obsequiousness

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

Draw an image that represents either the word "pecuniary" or the word "opulent".

What is something that enervates you?

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Which one of these vocab words is ALSO the name of a logical fallacy?

• Enervate

• Equivocate

• Banality

• Unctousness

• Macabre

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

Two words we've had with similar endings include the words unctuous and locquacious. While they have simlar endings, the word unctuous means ​​ (a)   while the word locquacious means ​​ (b)  

• dishonest/slimy
• overly verbose/talkative.
• ignorant/foolish
• refined
• intelligent
• strong/fierce
• loveable/warm

If you have a cancer that is labeled as an "indolent" cancer, is that a good thing or a bad thing (comparatively speaking)? Why do you think this?

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

If a person is rude and mean-spirited, we might call them . . .

• Abrogated

• Banal

• Garrulous

• Indomitable

• Churlish

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CCSS.L.3.2F

If someone talks excessively about nothing (so, like an AP Lang student essay or The Human Condition), we could call them . . .

• Garrulous

• Effete

• Bellicose

• Obseqious

• Obstinate

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4