APUSH helpful vocab terms

Sarah B.
Words I've come across in the American Pageant 14th edition textbook that I've needed some clarification on. Hope this helps you unlock those enigmatically worded secrets of history(:
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  1. concerted
    involving the joint activity of two or more
  2. flout
    treat with contemptuous disregard
  3. potent
    having great influence
  4. stratification
    the act of arranging persons into classes or levels
  5. bolster
    support and strengthen
  6. exploitation
    an act that victimizes someone
  7. auspices
    kindly endorsement and guidance
  8. lusty
    endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
  9. mottled
    having spots or patches of color
  10. erroneous
    containing or characterized by mistakes
  11. tenacious
    stubbornly unyielding
  12. squalor
    sordid dirtiness
  13. assail
    attack someone physically or emotionally
  14. pious
    having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
  15. conflagration
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  16. vainglorious
    feeling self-importance
  17. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
  18. inoculation
    taking a vaccine as a precaution against a disease
  19. cessation
    a stopping
  20. intrepid
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  21. enmity
    a state of deep-seated ill-will
  22. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  23. federated
    united under a central government
  24. listless
    lacking zest or vivacity
  25. opulent
    rich and superior in quality
  26. mawkish
    very sentimental or emotional
  27. cede
    give over
  28. ratification
    making something valid by formally confirming it
  29. nascent
    being born or beginning
  30. foment
    try to stir up
  31. flagrant
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  32. sedition
    an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority
  33. Tory
    a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs
  34. audacious
    disposed to venture or take risks
  35. pliant
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  36. flinty
    containing flint
  37. envoy
    a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
  38. preeminent
    greatest in importance, degree, or significance
  39. salve
    a preparation applied externally as a soothing remedy
  40. egalitarian
    favoring social equality
  41. nascent
    being born or beginning
  42. pretension
    creating a false appearance of great importance or worth
  43. primogeniture
    right of inheritance belonging exclusively to the eldest son
  44. protracted
    relatively long in duration
  45. disestablish
    deprive (a constituted church) of its status
  46. chattel
    personal property, as opposed to real estate
  47. portend
    indicate by signs
  48. discomfit
    cause to lose one's composure
  49. begotten
    generated by procreation
  50. boon
    something that is desirable, favorable, or beneficial
  51. speculation
    an investment that is risky but could yield great profits
  52. abstruse
    difficult to understand
  53. conspicuous
    without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
  54. destitute
    poor enough to need help from others
  55. bane
    something causing misery or death
  56. defray
    bear the expenses of
  57. incur
    make oneself subject to
  58. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
  59. supplication
    a humble request for help from someone in authority
  60. arrears
    the state of being behind in payments
  61. anemic
    lacking vigor or energy
  62. intermediary
    a negotiator who acts as a link between parties
  63. red-letter day
    a memorably happy or noteworthy day
  64. insoluble
    incapable of being dissolved
  65. barbed
    capable of wounding
  66. annex
    attach to
  67. curry
    give a neat appearance to
  68. grievance
    a complaint about a wrong that causes resentment
  69. rapacious
    excessively greedy and grasping
  70. malingering
    evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated
  71. quag
    a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  72. pooh-pooh
    reject with contempt
  73. veneration
    a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
  74. quorum
    a gathering of the minimal number of members of a group
  75. caliber
    a degree or grade of excellence or worth
  76. cavalier
    showing a lack of concern or seriousness
  77. austere
    of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
  78. roiling
    (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
  79. extort
    obtain by coercion or intimidation
  80. bicameral
    consisting of two chambers
  81. deadlock
    a situation in which no progress can be made
  82. sop
    give a conciliatory gift or bribe to
  83. conciliatory
    making or willing to make concessions
  84. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  85. arbitrary
    based on or subject to individual discretion or preference
  86. stipulate
    give a guarantee or promise of
  87. gilded
    deceptively pleasing
  88. apathetic
    showing little or no emotion or animation
  89. refute
    overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
  90. adjourn
    close at the end of a session
  91. referendum
    a legislative act referred for approval to a popular vote
  92. upended
    turned up on end
Created on Sat Sep 01 14:33:04 EDT 2012 (updated Sat Sep 08 17:08:04 EDT 2012)

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