AP Lit WODs 46-80

metamorphosis (noun)

a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one, by natural or supernatural means

Malinger (verb)

avoid responsibilities and duties by pretending to be ill

Addle (verb)

Make (someone) unable to think clearly; confuse

Duality (noun)

Having two parts, often with opposite meanings, like the duality of good and evil

Recalcitrance (noun) recalcitrant (adjective)

The trait of being unmanageable, the habit or characteristic of being very stubborn and difficult

Multivalency (noun) multivalent (adjective)

the quality of having many values, appeals or meanings

Abject (adjective)

of the most contemptible kind, most unfortunate of miserable; showing utter resignation or hopelessness

Eschew (verb)

avoid and stay away from deliberately

Exacerbate (verb)

to make worse; irritate

Evoke (verb)

call forth (emotions, feeling, and responses); call to mind

Niche (noun)

a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; a small con cavity; a space that’s all your own

Transience (noun)

The attribute of being brief or fleeting; an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

Ferret (verb)

search and discover through persistent investigation

Distort (verb)

twist and press out of shape; alter the shape of (something) by stress

Ardor

an intense kind of warmth and fervor most often associated with love

Wistful (adjective)

pensive sadness, often coupled with longing

Acrid (adjective)

(Of a smell) strong and sharp; harsh or corrosive in tone

Elegiac (adjective)

resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy (a poem that mourns someone’s death and celebrates their life); expressing sorrow often for something that is passed

Scintillate (verb)

Be lively or brilliant of exhibit virtuosity (from Latin, to sparkle or glow)

Adamant (adjective, noun)

a: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

N: very hard stone that is unbreakable

Nadir (noun)

an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything

Pastoral (adjective)

(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

Dichotomy (noun)

being twofold; an idea or classification split in two; a contrast between two things

Badger (verb)

to annoy or bother persistently; persuade through constant efforts

Genesis (noun)

the origin or mode of formation of something

Supercilious (adjective)

having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy

Foist (verb)

Force onto another; insert surreptitiously or without warrant

Poise (verb/noun)

v: hold or carry in equilibrium, be motionless, in suspension

N: great coolness and composure under strain

Inquiry (noun)

an institute of questioning; a search for knowledge

Myopic (adjective)

Short sighted, lacking foresight or scope

Profligate (adjective)

Unrestrained by convention or morality; recklessly wasteful

Prolific (adjective)

Fruitful or highly productive

Catalyst (noun)

something or someone that causes a change

Laden (adjective)

filled with a great quantity; burdened

Halcyon (adjective)

idyllically calm and peaceful; suggesting happy tranquility; marked by peace and prosperity

Gaunt (adjective)

(Of a person) lean and haggard; especially because of suffering, hunger, or age; (of a building or place) grim or desolate in appearance

Denizen (noun)

A person who inhibits a particular place, a plant or animal naturalized in a region

Ubiquity (noun)

The state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once)