APUSH VOCAB

Indict

(of a grand jury) to bring a formal accusation against, as a means of bringing to trial:

Tenancy

a holding, as of lands, by any kind of title; occupancy of land, a house, or the like, under a lease or on payment of rent; tenure.

Nonentity

a person or thing of no importance.

Harangue

a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.

Corollaries

an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion.

Blight

any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin, or frustration:

mongrel

any cross between different things, especially if inharmonious or indiscriminate.

Vigilante

any person who takes the law into his or her own hands, as by avenging a crime.

sporadic

appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional:

Cyclonic

describing a direction of rotation that is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Defection

desertion from allegiance, loyalty, duty, or the like; apostasy:

Eloquent

having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech

bombastic

high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.

Tenacious

holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold

privation

lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life:

Indigent

lacking food, clothing, and other necessities of life because of poverty; needy; poor; impoverished.

perennial

lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring:

Indiscriminate

not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.:

Appellate

of or pertaining to appeals. 2. having the power or authority to review and decide appeals, as a court.

Agrarian

relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property:

expedient

tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances:

lien

the legal claim of one person upon the property of another person to secure the payment of a debt or the satisfaction of an obligation.

redress

the setting right of what is wrong:

Intransigence

the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility:

encroach

to advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits; make gradual inroads:

Expiation

to atone for; make amends or reparation for:

Perpetrate

to commit:

Bilk

to defraud; cheat:

thresh

to separate the grain or seeds from (a cereal plant or the like) by some mechanical means, as by beating with a flail or by the action of a threshing machine.

Per se

by, of, for, or in itself; intrinsically: