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A.P./Dual Credit Vocabulary Words

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Vocabulary

1.    Incredulous (xi) - Unbelieving; not ready to believe; skeptical

2.    Archetype (xvii) - The original pattern or model from which copies are made; a prototype.

3.    Doppelganger (16) - a double or second-self; mirror image

4.    Sublimation (17) – redirecting of unacceptable impulses toward activities regarded as more socially acceptable.

5.    Mnemonic (23) - Aiding or designed to aid the memory.

6.    Sagacity (23) - profound knowledge and understanding, coupled with foresight and good judgment

7.    Ubiquitous (23) - Present or appearing everywhere; omnipresent.

8.    Myriad (24) – Countless; innumerable.

9.    Hapless (25) – Unfortunate; unlucky.

10.  Placid (26) - Mild, gentle; calm, peaceful

11.  Tawdry (35) – gaudy; cheap in appearance, and of inferior quality.

12.  Simulacrum (77) – Something having merely the form or appearance of a certain thing, without possessing its substance or proper qualities.

13.  Verisimilitude (78) - the appearance of being true or real.

14.  Obfuscation (91) - make something obscure or unclear

15.  Prurient (135) - Lascivious, lewd; exhibiting or characterized by an excessive or inappropriate concern with sexual matters; encouraging such a concern.

16.  Benevolent (243) - Desirous of the good of others, of a kindly disposition, charitable, generous.

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