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Monday, April 22, 2013

AP Vocabulary (from 1996 packet)

Post part(s) of speech and definition(s) for the word(s) you have been assigned in the comment box below.

General Use Words
aesthetic, coalesce, behemoth, troglodyte, precocious, didactic, combative, plumule, crux, pelagic, wanton, tern, stave, wrest, circumscribe, precipitous, paucity, delegation, dubious, brusque, enigmatic, undercut

Rhetorical and Literary Terms
antecedent, syllogism, ad hominem, syntax, elegiac, deductive, colloquial, apostrophe

33 comments:

  1. Apostrophe: a call/a statement to a person or thing that will not respond, i.e. a person who is dead or absent, an inanimate object, a god, or an idea; Death

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    1. Grammar: the punctuation mark used to show where letters are left out of a word (slang, diction) or in a contraction (aren't, wouldn't), and to mark possession (My teacher's dog, Charles' cat)

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  2. Precocious (adj.): Having developed certain abilities at an earlier age than usual, or indicative of such development.

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  3. Delegation (noun): A meeting, a group of delegates or representatives.

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  4. Didactic: adjective
    1. intended for instruction; instructive
    2. inclined to teach or lecture others too much
    3. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson

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  5. troglodyte: noun
    1. a prehistoric cave-dwelller
    2. a person of primitive or brutal character
    3. a person who lives in seclusion
    4. a person who is not familiar with the ways of the world
    5. an animal that lives underground

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  6. Brusque: adjective
    abrupt or offhand in speech or manner

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  7. Plumule (noun):
    1. a bud, still in the embryo, connected at the core of a plant stem
    2. A down feather (in young birds)

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  8. Crux: noun
    1. A puzzling or difficult problem (an unsolved question)
    2. An essential point requiring resolution or resolving an outcome
    3. A main or central feature (as of an argument)

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  9. Aesthetic

    (adj.)
    -Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

    (noun)
    -A set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement.

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  10. Combative (Adj.)
    1. Ready or eager to fight, argue, or quarrel
    2. Having the appearance of a willing fighter

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  11. Wrest

    (Verb)
    1. It is to twist, turn, pull, jerk, or to take something away by violent force.
    2. to get by effort

    (Noun)
    1. Twisting, a wrestling, or wrenching.
    2. As in wrenching or tuning stringed musical instruments like a harp or piano in order to fasten its strings with a key or small wrench.

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  12. Tern (noun)

    1. a set of three
    2. a type of aquatic bird related to the gulls

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  13. Antecedent:

    Adjective: To come before in time; prior

    Noun:
    1.A preceding event
    2.In a word or phrase, usually a substantive that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later in that sentence.

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  14. Ad hominen
    - (Adj)
    1. appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect
    2. marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made
    - (Adverb)
    1. directed against a person rather than against his arguments
    2. based on or appealing to pathos rather than ethos

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  16. Undercut:
    (Verb)
    1. To offer goods or services at a lower price or rate, compared to the competitor
    2. To weaken or destroy the impact or effectiveness
    3. To cut or wear away the part below or under

    (Noun)
    1. A cut or cutting away underneath

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  17. Paucity
    Noun
    1-smallness of quantity
    2-smallness or insufficiency of number

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  18. Ivy Gillette
    Circumscribe (verb)- Latin origin;
    1. to draw a line around; encircle: to circumscribe a city on a map.
    2. to enclose within bounds; limit or confine, especially narrowly: "Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations."
    3. to mark off; define; delimit: to circumscribe the area of a science.
    4. Geometry:
    a. to draw (a figure) around another figure so as to touch as many points as possible.
    b. (of a figure) to enclose (another figure) in this manner.
    Synonyms: limit, restrict, hinder, restrain, confine

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  19. Sydney Iwohn
    Dubious

    adjective
    1.
    doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
    2.
    of doubtful quality or propriety; questionable: a dubious compliment; a dubious transaction.
    3.
    of uncertain outcome: in dubious battle.
    4.
    wavering or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt.

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  20. Precipitous (adj.)

    1.really steep and tall. like a mountain cliff
    2.sudden. like a precipitous fall on a graph
    3.hasty. (arcane ((cuz I've never seen it before and therefore we need no example sentence)))

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  21. Bethany Gray

    Wanton (Adj.): [of a cruel or violent action] Deliberate and unprovoked

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  22. HannahEllis
    Coalesce (verb)
    Used without object:
    To grow or unite into one.Blending together.
    Used with object:
    To cause the unification to occur.

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  23. Michael Jaksland

    Enigmatic:
    - Adjective
    1. Resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.

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  24. James King
    Adj.
    1. Having to do with the open open sea.
    2. Living on the surface of the sea.

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  25. Colloquial
    adjective
    1. informal or conversational idiom or vocabulary; familiar rather than formal
    2. having to do with conversation

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  26. James King's word is PELAGIC.
    Adj.
    1. Having to do with the open open sea.
    2. Living on the surface of the sea.

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  27. Syntax
    Noun
    1. Syntax is the arrangement of words which form a sentence. It incorporates grammar of phrases, clauses, and sentences.
    2. Syntax is a study of language which focuses on the different way which words are put together to form sentences.
    (Note) Syntax can also focus on patterns of the arrangements and functions of a word, phrase, clause or sentence.
    The origin of Syntax is said to be either from middle French or late Latin.
    Middle French: Sintaxe
    Late Latin: Syntaxis
    Emily M.

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  28. Syllogism
    Noun
    1. Logic A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion; for example, All humans are mortal, the major premise, I am a human, the minor premise, therefore, I am mortal, the conclusion.
    Kevin R.

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  29. Behemoth
    Noun
    1. an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in Job 40: 15-24
    2. any creature or thing of monstrous size or power

    Corinne D.

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  30. More on "elegiac" (as pertains to tone)

    elegiac
    Adjective
    (esp. of a work of art) Having a mournful quality.
    sad - mournful - sorrowful - lugubrious - dismal - woeful

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