12th Grade AP Lit. Vocabulary Lists:
Vocab List for HOD: Quiz on Friday, Sept. 29th:
1. diaphanous: weblike; see-through, gauzy-looking
2. ascetic: living a severe, self-denying lifestyle
3. august: dignified; inspiring awe
4. lurid: glowing like flames through smoke
5. sedentary: still; sitting
6. inscrutable: hard to understand or fathom
7. abomination: loathsome, detestable thing
8. sepulchre: tomb; burial site
9. ponderous: heavy, massive
10. somnambulist: sleepwalker
11. ominous: forewarning of evil
12. uncanny: unfamiliar; strange; causing uneasiness
13. pall: dark, gloomy covering; covering used over a coffin
14. cravat: necktie
15. joviality: merriment; happy lightheartedness
16. sententiously: in a moralizing tone; formal and condescending
17. enigma: mystery
18. insipid: dull; boring; characterized by sameness
19. sordid: dirty (especially in the sense of immoral or ugly)
20. lugubrious: sad
1. diaphanous: weblike; see-through, gauzy-looking
2. ascetic: living a severe, self-denying lifestyle
3. august: dignified; inspiring awe
4. lurid: glowing like flames through smoke
5. sedentary: still; sitting
6. inscrutable: hard to understand or fathom
7. abomination: loathsome, detestable thing
8. sepulchre: tomb; burial site
9. ponderous: heavy, massive
10. somnambulist: sleepwalker
11. ominous: forewarning of evil
12. uncanny: unfamiliar; strange; causing uneasiness
13. pall: dark, gloomy covering; covering used over a coffin
14. cravat: necktie
15. joviality: merriment; happy lightheartedness
16. sententiously: in a moralizing tone; formal and condescending
17. enigma: mystery
18. insipid: dull; boring; characterized by sameness
19. sordid: dirty (especially in the sense of immoral or ugly)
20. lugubrious: sad