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AP QUARTER 2
Term | Definition |
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Undulate | Move up and Down |
Abdicate | Give up power |
Hegemony | To control someone |
Intrepid | Fearless |
Emigres | Leave country for political reasons |
Amnesty | being allowed back in to the country by the government |
Efficacy | efficentness |
De facto | from the fact |
Sanguinary | Bloody |
Superfluous | unnecessary |
Penultimate | second to last |
Perspicacity | Having a Deeper insight on things |
Impetuous | To make a decision without thinking |
Coup d'Etat | To overthrow quickly |
Cynosure | Center of attention |
Diaphanous | delicate or light |
Egalitarian | Equal |
Corporeal | Relating to human body |
Deduce | Arrive at truth based of logic and reason |
Metaphysics | study of reality |
Timorous | Showing fear |
Indefatigable | Never Tired |
Mercurial | Quick and sudden change in emotion |
Capricious | Severe change in mood |
Yoke | Something that holds you down |
Modicum | Small amount |
Martinet | Following rules blindly |
Autarky | Economic Self-Sufficiency |
Ostentatious | Showing off to much |
Raison d'etat | Reason of state |
Myopic | Short sighted |