AP Language Vocab Set 11

So far 22 EU members have ratified Croatia's accession treaty and four have started the process.

Paraguay was officially commemorating Stroessner’s overthrow on Sunday, making the timing of the helicopter crash questionable for some of Mr. Oviedo’s political supporters.

Sitting in a chair, despondent, was all I felt like doing. Salon (Jan 4, 2013)

Supporters demonstrated outside BMO and even Mariner, pictured, was said to have become embroiled in verbal altercations.

Errant space rocks, of course, can do a lot of damage.

Whole tribes were rooted out to expiate it. Parkman, Francis

Past becomes present in this glorious gallimaufry of an entertainment, shimmering with something beyond understanding.

“He was not a gregarious individual; he was very intense,” Mr. Rosenberg said.

It began with two young women, each embarking on marriage in the halcyon days at the end of World War II. Salon (Jul 15, 2012)

New Year's Day witnessed a ocean-emptying shark warning at Bondi - hedonism comes with risks.

On that one degraded and ignoble form are concentrated the passions that might have filled the world with shame. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

The Duke is a celebrated, cultivated, underrated nobleman of impecunious estate, shabby in attire but unquestionably gentle in breeding. Lytton, Henry A.

Two only out of the ten witnesses have gratified him by inditing, at his request, weak and guarded complaints of unfair treatment. Remsburg, John B.

So are physicists doomed to look at drug discoverers with a jaundiced eye? Scientific American (Mar 1, 2013)

In the United States alone, 700,000 people suffer vertebral fractures per year and back problems are the sixth leading human malady in the world.

Yet was she by no means more niggardly in bestowing favour, than rapacious in seeking advantage. Burney, Fanny

He was a paladin—Ajax, Don Juan, Tamerlane, Mark Antony, Baldur, all rolled into one. Terhune, Albert Payson

Con Ed taking longer to fix my wires more often is a trifle.

The band by an unfortunate accident was playing truculent military music. Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The high cost of farming, along with the vicissitudes of international commodities markets, forced all but the biggest operations out of business.

In the townships, vigilante beatings and killings are the norm.

The surprising assertion — Obama’s golfing and basketball hobbies are far better known — instantly stirred the political zeitgeist.