AP Vocab List #7

The purpose of the overly didactic presentation was to teach us all about the dangers of cigarette smoking.

• Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. Also
• Intended to show a person their faults. 
• Intended to demonstate the fallaciey of the curent educational system

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

He rummaged in his capacious backpack for his lunch, his water bottle, his binder, and his stack of textbooks.  

• Having a distinct lack of space.
• Having a lot of lunch.
• Having a lot of space inside or being roomy.

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CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Most people are considered to be diurnal.

• Fauna that are corpuscular in nature.
• People who are active in the day and sleep in the afternoon.
• People who are active at day and sleep in the night.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Because he divorced his wife and later married her sister, Fred has an ignominious reputation among the townspeople.

• Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.
• Deserving or causing public panic.
• Deserving or causing public censure and acclaim. 

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CCSS.L.3.2F

I take aspirin to mitigate the effects of a migraine.

• To make less severe, serious, or painful.
  
• To make more severe, more serious, and excruciating. 
• To make someone wish they were napping.

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CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Her heart began to palpitate when she saw her crush merge from the crowd with a bouquet of her favorite flowers. 

• To throw someone under the bus.
• To shake, rattle, and roll very rapidly. 
• To beat, throb, or pulse rapidly, strongly, or irregularly.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Her son was in the throes of a nightmare and she rubbed his back to allay his terror. 

• To fix, cobble, or put to bed (worry, sleep, food).
• diminish or put at rest (fear, worry, pain, suspicion.
• To strengthen, hearken, or holler.

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CCSS.L.5.5C

The normally phlegmatic man could not help but scream and hoot when he won a gigantic lottery prize.

• A person who has an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.
• A person who has an emotional and fragmented disposition. 
• A person who has the tendency to freak out easily. 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The timing of the wedding ceremony was propitious as it ended right before an epic downpour started.

• Something that gives or indicates a good chance of success or something that is favorable.
• Something hat give a good chance of failure or something that is disquieting. 
• Something that indicated that you are an idiot. 

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CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Adjective: 
As the marathon winner crossed the finish line, she fell prostrate on the asphalt and heaved for breath.

• Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward.
• Curled up like a bug. 
• Flopping around like a fish on a hook. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D