APUSH vocab CH.5-7

Broadside

a sizable sheet of paper printed on one side

Factious

of or relating to faction

Spew

To pour out

Portend

to give an omen or anticipatory sign of

Galvanize

to stimulate or excite as if by an electric shock

Remonstrate

say or plead in protest

Supplicate

to ask humbly and earnestly of

Adroit

expert, skilled, nimble

Vacillation

inability to take a stand

Muster

an act of assembling

Disconsolate

cheerless

Licentiousness

lacking legal or moral restraints

Augment

to make greater, more numerous or larger

Pustule

a small circumscribed elevation of the skin containing pus and having an inflamed base often relates to smallpox

Epithet

a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing

Crassly

gross or guided by or indicative of base or materialistic values

Abet

to actively second and encourage

Engender

to cause to exist or to develop

Redress

to set right

Byword

a proverbial saying

Ordinance

an authoritative decree or direction

Precedent

prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance

Depreciation

to lower in estimation or esteem

Beleaguered

besiege, trouble or harass

Salutary

producing a beneficial effect

Usurp

to seize and hold

Perilous

dangerous

Inherent

involved in the constitution or essential character of something

Prostrate

stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission

Aghast

struck with terror, amazement, or horror