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AP Language Week 8 Vocabulary

AP Language Week 8 Vocabulary. allay: v. to reduce the intensity of; relieve; pacify syn: soften, assuage ant: excite 2. ameliorate: v. to make better, improve syn: fix, relieve ant: worsen 3. asperity: n. roughness or harshness; severity

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AP Language Week 8 Vocabulary

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  1. AP Language Week 8 Vocabulary • allay: v. to reduce the intensity of; relieve; pacify syn: soften, assuage ant: excite 2. ameliorate: v. to make better, improve syn: fix, relieve ant: worsen 3. asperity: n. roughness or harshness; severity syn: bitterness, irritability ant: mildness 4. exegesis: n. an analysis; interpretation of syn: explanation

  2. 5. extradite: v. to release an accused criminal to another jurisdiction 6. hypocrisy: n. two-faced, falseness ant: sincerity 7. inveigh: v. to protest, oppose syn: rail 8. lionize: v. to honor or celebrate

  3. 9. pander: v. to act as a go-between; to exploit weakness of others 10. profligate: adj. wasteful; immoral syn: licentious ant: moral 11. recalcitrant: adj. stubbornly resistant ant: complaint 12. renunciation: n. rejection; abandonment syn: relinquishment, repudiation ant: claim, acceptance

  4. 13. unimpeachable: adj. beyond doubt; unquestionable ant: discredited 14. unwieldy: adj. not easily held syn: bulky, clumsy ant: manageable 15. vitiate: v. to reduce the value of; to corrupt or debase syn: spoil, mar, ruin

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