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Details Title: AP Packet #2 Description: Vocabulary Terms Total Flash Cards: 34 Created: 10/09/2005 10:26:42	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Shirk Definition To avoid or neglect a duty or responsibility Term Abet Definition To approve, encourage, and support an action or a plan of action Term Disenfranchise Definition To deprive of voting rights Term Inveigh Definition To give vent to angry disapproval; protest vehemently Term Deride Definition To speak of or treat with contemptuous mirth Term Eulogy Definition A laudatory speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died Term Excoriation Definition To tear or wear off the skin To censure strongly; denounce Term Exhortative Definition Acting or intended to encourage, incite, or advise. Term Judicial Definition Of, relating to, or proper to courts of law or to the administration of justice Term Satiric Definition Exposing human folly to ridicule Term Duplicitous Definition Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech Term Tongue-in-cheek Definition Meant or expressed ironically or facetiously Term Superfluous Definition Being beyond what is required or sufficient Term Licentiousness Definition Lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint, especially in sexual conduct Term Throng Definition A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together Term Lavishes Definition Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion Term Requite Definition To avenge Term Rapine Definition Forcible seizure of another's property Term Sedition Definition Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state Term Posit Definition To place firmly in position Term Indolent Definition Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy Term Allusive Definition Containing or characterized by indirect references Term Garish Definition Marked by strident color or excessive ornamentation; gaudy Term Conjuror Definition One that performs magic tricks; a magician Term Futility Definition Lack of importance or purpose Term Disillusioned Definition To free or deprive of illusion Term Stoic Definition One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain Term Epicurean Definition Devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure, especially to the enjoyment of good food and comfort Term Profligate Definition Recklessly wasteful Term Abstemiousness Definition Eating and drinking in moderation Term Sententiously Definition Terse and energetic in expression Term Maladroit Definition An inept person Term Hectoring Definition To intimidate or dominate in a blustering way Term Husbandry Definition The act or practice of cultivating crops and breeding and raising livestock