Mastering Vocabulary: Lesson Four Key Terms
Explore and understand words like perfunctory, obloquy, celibate, and more in this comprehensive lesson. Enhance your vocabulary and language skills with definitions and examples provided.
Mastering Vocabulary: Lesson Four Key Terms
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Lesson Four AP Power Plus
perfunctory • Done without care; in a routine fashion
obloquy • Strong disapproval; a bad reputation resulting from public criticism
celibate • Abstaining from intercourse; unmarried
De- • down
debacle • A complete failure; a total collapse
demeanor • Behavior; manner of conducting oneself
fortuitous • Happening by chance or accident
Quasi- • Resembling; seeming; half
baroque • Overly decorated
Im- • into
sacrosanct • Extremely holy
sadistic • Deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others
therm • heat
hedonism • Pursuit of pleasure, especially of the senses
recapitulate • To summarize; to repeat briefly
clin • To lean; to bend
besmirch • To make dirty; to stain
imperative • Extremely necessary; vitally important
Dis- • apart
facetious • Comical; jocular; flippant
hyper • excessive
Pom, pos • To put; to place
Com- • together
