English AP Vocab Chap 2

Licentious

lacking legal or moral restraints

Propriety

The quality or state of being proper or suitable; true nature

Fastidious

Showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care
Reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude

Concord

An agreement or harmony between people or groups or agreement between words in gender, number, case, person, or any other grammatical category that affects the forms of the words.

Colloquial

Used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation; using conversational style

Decorum

iterary and dramatic propriety; good taste, propriety, and orderliness in conduct

Prowess

Distinguished bravery or Extraordinary ability

disdainful

expressing contempt for something or someone considered to be inferior

Analogous

similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail OR
similar in a way that invites comparison; showing an analogy or likeness

Revelatory

of or relating to revelation : serving to reveal something
Prefix: re- (again, back, backward), suffix: ory- (relating to)

Discerning

showing insight and understanding: discriminating.
prefix: dis- ("apart","away", "asunder")
Root: cern ("separate", "decide")
Suffix: -ing ("in the present")

Congenial

Pleasant, agreeably suited to one's nature, tastes, or outlook;
existing or associated together harmoniously
Prefix: "con-", meaning ---> with, together
Suffix: "-al", meaning ---> pertaining to
Root: "gen-", meaning ---> race, kind, family, or birth

Aesthetic

of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful

Evanescent

tending to become imperceptible

unassailable

not liable to doubt, attack, or question
un- (not, against, opposite)
-able (able to be, capable of, worthy of)

Paradox

An argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises.

Antithesis

Direct opposite

Sardonic`

Disdainfully or skeptically humorous: derisively mocking.

Fallow

left untilled or unsown after plowing; not in use and inactive

Hegemony

preponderant influence or authority over others : DOMINATION

Languid

(adj.) drooping; without energy, sluggish

Ferocity

the quality or state of being ferocious, exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality

Linguistic.

Of or relating to language.
root = lingu (language, tongue), suffix = -ic (relating to).

Propagate

to cause to continue or increase by sexual or asexual reproduction ; to foster growing knowledge of, familiarity with, or acceptance of (something, such as an idea or belief)

Abhorrence

State of repulsion or loathing.
root meaning strong dislike; -ence suffix meaning quality or state

Deprecate

To express disapproval of/ make little of

Conjecture

Inference formed without proof or sufficient evidence.
Con=together, ject=throw, ure=act or process of

Quizzical

Showing that you do not understand something or that you find something strange or amusing; expressive of puzzlement, curiosity, or disbelief

Syllogism

A form of logical reasoning, where 2 premises that are given to be true lead to one conclusion.