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vocab week 11
ap english vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| IMPOTENT | Powerless: without the strength or power to do anything effective or helpful |
| IMPRECATION | Curse: an oath or curse cursing somebody: the calling down of harm on somebody swearing: swearing or blasphemy |
| JOCULAR | fond of joking: with a playful joking disposition humorous: intended to be funny |
| JUXTAPOSE | put side by side: to place two or more things together, especially in order to suggest a link between them or emphasize the contrast between them |
| KINETIC | relating to motion: relating to, caused by, or producing motion |
| KISMET | fate: fate or destiny ISLAM Allah's will: the will of Allah |
| KNELL | slow bell ring: the sound of a bell rung slowly, associated with solemnity or mourning, used to announce a death or funeral ominous signal: something that signals death, disaster, or the end of something |
| LABYRINTH | confusing network: a place with a lot of crisscrossing or complicated passages, tunnels or paths in which it would be easy to become lost something very complicated: made of many different parts that is hard to understand |
| LACHRYMOSE | crying: crying or tending to cry easily and often sad: so sad as to make people cry |
| LACONIC | using few words |
| LAMBENT | gleaming: softly gleaming or glowing playing over a surface: flickering or playing as a flame over a surface without burning it brilliantly light: having light but brilliant touch |
| LANGUID | without energy: lacking vigor and energy sluggish: sluggish or slow-moving listless: listless and indifferent |
| LASCIVIOUS | lewd: showing a desire for, or unseemly interest in sex erotic: provoking or exciting lust |
| LEGERDEMAIN | arts: sleight of hand? show of skill: a display of skill or cleverness, especially for deceitful purposes |
| LIBERTINE | philanderer: somebody, usually a man, who indulges in pleasures that are considered immoral and who has sexual relationships with many people |