AP Lit Week 10 Vocabulary

ambulatory

• relating to or adapted for walking.
• a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.
• shriveled or wrinkled with age.
• impossible to understand or interpret.

churlish

• rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.

• a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief.

• conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

• shriveled or wrinkled with age.

diffident

• modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence.
• characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.
• relating to or adapted for walking.
• rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.

ennui

• a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.
• conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
• presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way.
• a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief.

inscrutable

• impossible to understand or interpret.
• shriveled or wrinkled with age.
• modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence.
• a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.

schism

• a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief.
• modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence.
• impossible to understand or interpret.
• conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

sedition

• conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
• presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way.
• rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.
• characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.

wizen(ed)

• shriveled or wrinkled with age.
• relating to or adapted for walking.
• characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.
• modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence.

ostentatious

• characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.
• rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.
• a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief.
• relating to or adapted for walking.

strident

• presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way.

• impossible to understand or interpret.

• a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.

• a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief.