EVERYTHING given in 2010-2011 AP English. Warning: she does add words to the quiz that you will not find here or in your notes.
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| 124930662 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds in 2 or more words in a row | |
| 124930663 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound in a line/s | |
| 124930664 | Imagery | Specific details that appeal to sound, taste, smell, feel or sight | |
| 124930665 | Cassandra | Ledas and Zeus's daughter, gifted with 6th sight | |
| 124930666 | Pandora | Opened box with the troubles of the world, married to Prometheus | |
| 124930667 | Pan | All | |
| 124930668 | Panorama | The view of it all | |
| 124930669 | Panacea | The cure-all | |
| 124930670 | Panoply | Suit of armor | |
| 124930671 | Pandemonium | Wild upheaval, all hell breaking loose | |
| 124930672 | Pantomime | acted in all gestures and signs | |
| 124930673 | Leda | Swan | |
| 124930674 | Castor and Pollux | Gemini Twins (one egg from Leda) | |
| 124930675 | Helen | Cause of Trojan war, sister of Cassandra, married to Menelaus and in love with Paris | |
| 124930676 | Agamemnon | Took Cassandra as his sex slave, killed by his wife. | |
| 124930677 | Epimethius | After Thought | |
| 124930678 | Prometheus | Fore Thought (made man in Zeus's image, stole fire) | |
| 124930679 | Promethean | Unusual self sacrifice, Very Brave | |
| 124930680 | Chaos | father of it all | |
| 124930681 | Uranus | Heavens (Greek) | |
| 124930682 | Gaea | Mother earth (Greek) | |
| 124930683 | Children of Gaea | monsters, cyclops, titans | |
| 124930684 | Chronos | father time | |
| 124930685 | Atlas | Holds up the earth | |
| 124930686 | Zeus | Heavens (titans) | |
| 124930687 | Hera | Zeus's Wife | |
| 124930688 | hades | underworld | |
| 124930689 | Poseidon | oceans | |
| 124930690 | syllepsis | two words for two senses at the same time | |
| 124930691 | Banality | trivial, common place | |
| 124930692 | incongruous | out of place, inappropriate or unreasonable, proper and mannerly | |
| 124930693 | anachronistic | out of time or outdated | |
| 124930694 | Chronology | time line | |
| 124930695 | Chronometer | anything that measures time | |
| 124930696 | chronic | Habitual, happens all the time | |
| 124930697 | Apathy | 'Not a care' one way or another | |
| 124930698 | Path | Root word: Suffering or disease | |
| 124930699 | Pathos | feelings or emotions evoked from a song, movie, speech or book | |
| 124930700 | sympathy | feel another persons suffering | |
| 124930701 | Empathy | crawling into another person's skin and walking around in it | |
| 124930702 | Antipathy | feels strongly and absolutely against something | |
| 124930703 | Psychopath | diseased mind, dangerous criminal | |
| 124930704 | pathology | science studies the causes of disease or death | |
| 124930705 | Pedantic | Preachy teachey, overemphasizing adherence to rules. | |
| 124930706 | Flippant | disrespectfully saucy and impertinent | |
| 124930707 | Euphony | Good sound | |
| 124930708 | Eu | Root word: Good | |
| 124930709 | Eulogy | Words spoken at a funeral | |
| 124930710 | Logo | Word | |
| 124930711 | Euphoria | Natural high, great feeling | |
| 124930712 | eugenics | science dealing with improvement of hereditary traits | |
| 124930713 | Euphemism | less offensive expression substituted for an offensive one | |
| 124930714 | euthanasia | mercy killing | |
| 124930715 | euchymy | healthy blood and body chemistry | |
| 124930716 | Eudaemon | angel, good spirit | |
| 124930717 | Setting | Where a story takes place | |
| 124930718 | Character | People or main aspects of a story that conduct the action | |
| 124930719 | Round Character | Fully developed, multifaceted individuals that grows and changes due to experiences | |
| 124930720 | Protagonist | The character with whom the reader empathizes | |
| 124930721 | Flat characters | minor characters that seem to symbolize one thing. one dimensional stereotypes,predictable, and unchanging | |
| 124930722 | antagonist | another character that works against the protagonist's effort to resolve conflict | |
| 124930723 | Plot | sequence of events, patterns of action, which is kicked off by conflict. | |
| 124930724 | Theme | universal moral or lesson the reader is to learn | |
| 124930725 | point of view | who is telling the story | |
| 124930726 | dramatic situation | opening sequence, paragraph, or chapter establishes a person in a conflict | |
| 124930727 | exposition | introduction or main characters; tells what happened before the story opens; provides background information | |
| 124930728 | Crisis | moment of high tension turning point in action | |
| 124930729 | Climax | moment of greatest tension and the point at which outcome is decided | |
| 124930730 | Denouement | outcome, the unravelling, of all events | |
| 124930731 | foreshadowing | a hint of given to the reader of what is to come | |
| 124930732 | flashback | an interruption in the action of a story, play or piece of nonfiction to show an episode that happened at an earlier time | |
| 124930733 | Right of passage | stories of initiation experience that lead to a new level of maturity | |
| 124930734 | Epiphany | moment of realization or discovery (aha) | |
| 124930735 | In media res | in the midst of; in the middle of it; in the thick of it | |
| 124930736 | Allusion | reference to a person, place or event or to another literary passage. to illustrate or enhance a subject | |
| 124930737 | Anaphora | Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of a successive verse or clause | |
| 124930738 | Apostrophe | addressing someone absent, dead or non human as if alive or present | |
| 124930739 | anecdote | a brief account of a memorable incident | |
| 124930740 | aphorism | witty, wise, true remark | |
| 124930741 | Antithesis | word arrangement to emphasize the contrast and give the effect of balance | |
| 124930742 | chiasmus | word order in first phrase is reversed in the second phrase following an 'A-B-B-A' | |
| 124930743 | Conceit | extended metaphor | |
| 124930744 | ellipsis | omission of a sentence of one or more words needed to express the sense completely | |
| 124930745 | Homily | sermon explaining part of the bible | |
| 124930746 | Magi | Wise men or Kings | |
| 124930747 | ious | full of | |
| 124930748 | syn | Same | |
| 124930749 | Ambi | both | |
| 124930750 | pseudo | false or fake | |
| 124930751 | Mal | bad | |
| 124930752 | malaise | a general feeling of discomfort, illness or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify | |
| 124930753 | Pangaea | whole earth | |
| 124930754 | scathing | scalding, hateful; witheringly scornful, severely critical | |
| 124930755 | ominous | threatening, foreboding, impending doom, menacing | |
| 124930756 | poly | many | |
| 124930757 | agon | struggle | |
| 124930758 | raze | level to the ground | |
| 124930759 | omniscient | knowing everything | |
| 124930760 | Incarnadine | Bloody red color | |
| 124930761 | Carnelian | Flesh colored | |
| 124930762 | Carn | root word: meat or flesh | |
| 124930763 | carnival | meat festival celebrated before lent | |
| 124930764 | Marti gras | fat Tuesday | |
| 124930765 | carnivore | meat eater | |
| 124930766 | carnage | bloody aftermath of war | |
| 124930767 | incarnate | in the flesh | |
| 124930768 | reincarnation | Hindu belief in rebirth into another body | |
| 124930769 | coruscate | give off flashes of light | |
| 124930770 | malice | animosity, evil ill will | |
| 124930771 | malevolent | intentionally hateful and spiteful | |
| 124930772 | augury | omen, portents | |
| 124930773 | sapient | insightful, sagacious, perspicacious (tiriesmis) | |
| 124930774 | fructify | to honestly, candidly discuss both sides | |
| 124930775 | Xanthic | rusty yellow color | |
| 124930776 | consummate | complete in every detail, quintessential | |
| 124930777 | epitome | cut above the rest or the best | |
| 124930778 | vour | to eat | |
| 124930779 | herbivore | plant eater | |
| 124930780 | Omnivore | meat and plant eater | |
| 124930781 | epi | root word: above | |
| 124930782 | tom | root word: to cut | |
| 124930783 | appendectomy | to cut ones appendix | |
| 124930784 | tonsillectomy | cut out ones tonsils | |
| 124930785 | tome | big old book on one subject | |
| 124930786 | quintessential | perfect example of | |
| 124930787 | atoner | one who makes amends | |
| 124930788 | fledgling | immature, naive person | |
| 124930789 | loquacious | loud gabby woman talk | |
| 124930790 | loquor | root word: to speak | |
| 124930791 | Grandiloquent | lofty pompous overly eloquent talk (G) | |
| 124930792 | Magniloquent | lofty pompous overly eloquent talk (M) | |
| 124930793 | Magna (mega) | Root Word: large | |
| 124930794 | Vaniloquent | vain, conceited trash talk | |
| 124930795 | soliloquy | speech made aloud to ones self | |
| 124930796 | soli | root word: alone | |
| 124930797 | ventriloquist | one who can throw his voice | |
| 124930798 | ventri | root word: stomach | |
| 124930799 | ventral | stomach- side of an animal | |
| 124930800 | Dorsal | Back-Side of an animal | |
| 124930801 | Colloquial | informational, conversational language use with friends | |
| 124930802 | circumlocution | talk in a roundabout way, and be intentionally in directs i.e. Politicians | |
| 124930803 | Prologue | pre story | |
| 124930804 | Parados | Chorus (exposition) -> Dramatic question -> Climax -> Denoumax | |
| 124930805 | elegy | death poem | |
| 124930806 | eulogy | death speech | |
| 124930807 | dirge | death song | |
| 124930808 | nemesis | avenger, scourge, revenger | |
| 124930809 | stealthily | surreptitiously, sneakily | |
| 124930810 | unscathed | uninjured, unharmed | |
| 124930811 | flout | to ignore disrespectfully, scorn | |
| 124930812 | unsavory | distasteful | |
| 124930813 | demos | Root Word: People | |
| 124930814 | dauntless | brave, bold, daring, plucky | |
| 124930815 | preceptor | teacher, pedagogue | |
| 124930816 | ped | Root Word: children | |
| 124930817 | agogos | Root Word: leader | |
| 124930818 | intemperate | rampant, out of control | |
| 124930819 | portent | omen, augory | |
| 124930820 | reprisal | injury for injury, revenge | |
| 124930821 | distraught | hysterical, frantic | |
| 124930822 | Dis | Root Word: not | |
| 124930823 | Cat | Root Word: Down | |
| 124930824 | Astro | Root Word: Star | |
| 124930825 | astronomy | study of the arrangement of stars and planets | |
| 124930826 | equi | Root Word: equal | |
| 124930827 | animous | spirit | |
| 124930828 | animus | pure hatred | |
| 124930829 | unanimous | one spirit | |
| 124930830 | Greg | herd | |
| 124930831 | belittle | feel little; ridicule; gossip; malign | |
| 124930832 | celerity | Speed ( think cheetah, celery and rabbit) | |
| 124930833 | simultaneous | done at the same time | |
| 124930834 | adjoined | connected | |
| 124930835 | obstetrician | delivers babies | |
| 124930836 | acquiesce | agree, compromise, 'okay, I see' | |
| 124930837 | calamity | disaster, catastrophe | |
| 124930838 | solvent | financially afloat | |
| 124930839 | cache | hiding place | |
| 124930840 | chron | Root Word: time | |
| 124930841 | ortho | Root Word: straighten | |
| 124930842 | Ben | Root Word: Eu (Root Word: good) | |
| 124930843 | metre | Root Word: measure | |
| 124930844 | anti | Root Word: against | |
| 124930845 | card | Root Word: heart | |
| 124930846 | bi | Root Word:two | |
| 124930847 | ology | Root Word:study of | |
| 124930848 | ante | Root Word: before | |
| 124930849 | antebellum | before the civil war | |
| 124930850 | antediuvian | before the flood (NOAH) | |
| 124930851 | anteroom | man's den | |
| 124930852 | derm | Root Word: skin | |
| 124930853 | nym | Root Word: name | |
| 124930854 | amor | Root Word:love | |
| 124930855 | cower | crouch in fear | |
| 124930856 | manacle | hand cuff | |
| 124930857 | sloth | laziness | |
| 124930858 | luc | Root Word: light | |
| 124930859 | transient (ephemeral) | short lived | |
| 124930860 | translucent | see through | |
| 124930861 | misen | Root Word:hate | |
| 124930862 | anthrope | Root Word:man kind | |
| 124930863 | misogynist | hates women | |
| 124930864 | gyn | Root Word: woman | |
| 124930865 | gynecology | doctor for females | |
| 124930866 | philanthrope | benefactor | |
| 124930867 | nomos | Root Word: all, many | |
| 124930868 | bulwark | rampart, protective wall | |
| 124930869 | anathema | curse | |
| 124930870 | elucidate | explain, expand | |
| 124930871 | misanthrope | hates people | |
| 124930872 | reprobate | miscreant, villain, delinquent | |
| 124930873 | entrenched | ingrained, embedded | |
| 124930874 | venerable | hallowed, revered, respected elderly | |
| 124930875 | magnaimous | generous, large spirited | |
| 124930876 | abdicate | overthrow a ruler or leader | |
| 124930877 | autonomy | self-governing | |
| 124930878 | veritable | genuine, very real example of | |
| 124930879 | cow | intimidate or bully | |
| 124930880 | cur | mangy abandoned dog | |
| 124930881 | AM | ante meridian | |
| 124930882 | PM | post meridian | |
| 124930883 | martinet | excessive, inhuman disciplinarian | |
| 124930884 | sycophant | brown-noser, uses flattery to get in someones good gracestyty | |
| 124930885 | dilettante | superficial part time dabbler, some skill but doesn't develop ability | |
| 124930886 | tyro | novice, beginner, neophyte | |
| 124930887 | virtuoso | consummate artist | |
| 124930888 | chauvinist | has excessive pride and devotion to a single idea | |
| 124930889 | patriot | normally proud and devoted to ones country | |
| 124930890 | pater | father | |
| 124930891 | mater | mother | |
| 124930892 | patriarch | male ruled | |
| 124930893 | matriarch | female ruled | |
| 124930894 | paternity | fatherhood | |
| 124930895 | maternity | motherhood | |
| 124930896 | patrimony | inheritance from ones father | |
| 124930897 | patronym | fathers last name | |
| 124930898 | matrimony | marriage | |
| 124930899 | patricide | kill ones father | |
| 124930900 | cide | Root Word: to kill | |
| 124930901 | matricide | kill ones mother | |
| 124930902 | fratricide | kill ones brother | |
| 124930903 | sorocide | kill ones sister | |
| 124930904 | suicide | kill yourself | |
| 124930905 | homicide | killing a human being | |
| 124930906 | regicide | kill ones leader | |
| 124930907 | regal | royal | |
| 124930908 | uxoricide | kill ones wife | |
| 124930909 | infanticide | kill of newborn | |
| 124930910 | genocide | killing of whole race or nation | |
| 124930911 | iconoclast | a rebel against convention and tradition | |
| 124930912 | icon | religious image | |
| 124930913 | athiest | denies the existance of god | |
| 124930914 | a | Root word: not | |
| 124930915 | theos | Root Word: god | |
| 124930916 | monotheism | belief in one god | |
| 124930917 | polytheism | belief in many gods | |
| 124930918 | pantheism | god is a combination of all forces of the universe/ god is evident in nature | |
| 124930919 | theology | the study of god and religion | |
| 124930920 | theocrasy | ruled by the church | |
| 124930921 | agnostics | proof of god is unknowable | |
| 124930922 | gnos | root word: to know | |
| 124930923 | diagnose | an examination to determine the cause of an illness | |
| 124930924 | prognose | forecast, knowing beforehand | |
| 124930925 | Mania | obsession | |
| 124930926 | manomaniac | obsession with one thing | |
| 124930927 | bipsomaniac | obsession with drinking | |
| 124930928 | lyeptomaniac | obsession with stealing | |
| 124930929 | pyromaniac | morbid obsession with fire | |
| 124930930 | incendiary | sets fire for revenge | |
| 124930931 | arsonist | sets fire for money | |
| 124930932 | megolomaniac | obsession with power | |
| 124930933 | nymphomaniac | female who is obsessed with sex | |
| 124930934 | lecher | male who is obsessed with sex | |
| 124930935 | phobia | fear | |
| 124930936 | claustrophobia | fear of enclosed spaces | |
| 124930937 | agoraphobia | fear of open space | |
| 124930938 | acrophobia | fear of hieghts | |
| 124930939 | introvert | a shy, quiet person who prefers solitude to socializing | |
| 124930940 | extrovert | outgoing social person who prefers peoples company. | |
| 124930941 | ambivert | both inward and outward tendencies | |
| 124930942 | insolence | rude, snottiness | |
| 124930943 | potentate | strong arm dictator | |
| 124930944 | lily-livered | Cowardly | |
| 124930945 | Dogged | determined | |
| 124930946 | Egotist | a person who constantly talks about themselves and their accomplishments (i.e obnoxious) | |
| 124930947 | Egoist | person concerned about himself before anyone else (i.e. Obnoxious) | |
| 124930948 | egocentric | person considers himself the center of the universe. extreme form of egoist (i.e. intolerable) | |
| 124930949 | egomaniac | self-interests and desires have become a morbid fascination (i.e. Dangerous) | |
| 124930950 | Altruist | someone who is deeply concerned about the welfare of others. A good-deed doer | |
| 124930951 | alter | Root Word: other | |
| 124930952 | alternative | choice | |
| 124930953 | alternate | skip one and take the other | |
| 124930954 | alter ego | an old friend that is so close to another person, that they mirror each others thoughts, action/reactions, and temperament | |
| 124930955 | altercation | heated verbal argument | |
| 124930956 | clandestine | secretive | |
| 124930957 | enigma | puzzling, mysterious person | |
| 124930958 | lurk | skulk (verb) | |
| 124930959 | avowal | frank admission | |
| 124930960 | estranged | alienated from | |
| 124930961 | wrangle | cowboy brawl | |
| 124930962 | slake | quench a serious thirst | |
| 124930963 | voracious | ravenous | |
| 124930964 | succulent | mouth watering juicy | |
| 124930965 | glutton | greedy eater, piggy | |
| 124930966 | lumber | plod along clumsily | |
| 124930967 | Brickbat | severe criticism | |
| 124930968 | sciaffed | hit the ground before hitting the golf ball | |
| 124930969 | iogolept | word maniac, philologist | |
| 124930970 | jargoggle | be befuddled or confused | |
| 124930971 | scoon | skip a stone across the water | |
| 124930972 | towdie | constipated hen | |
| 124930973 | waffle | cranky, disagreeable old person | |
| 124930974 | tragus | ear bump | |
| 124930975 | league | 3 miles (deep of water) | |
| 124930976 | light year | 5.88 trillion miles | |
| 124930977 | twain | 12 feet (2 fathoms) | |
| 124930978 | fathom | 6 feet deep (water) | |
| 124930979 | gross | 144 (12 dozen) | |
| 124930980 | knot | 1 nautical mile | |
| 124930981 | score | 20 years | |
| 124930982 | decade | 10 years | |
| 124930983 | century | 100 years | |
| 124930984 | fortnight | 2 two weeks | |
| 124930985 | bakers dozen | 13 | |
| 124930986 | cubit | length of ones forearm | |
| 124930987 | acre | 4840 square yards | |
| 124930988 | ream | 500 sheets | |
| 124930989 | opulence | wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | |
| 124930990 | specious | plausible but false | |
| 124930991 | nefarious | extremely wicked | |
| 124930992 | reticent | reluctant to draw attention to yourself | |
| 124930993 | glib | artfully persuasive in speech | |
| 124930994 | ennui | the feeling of being bored by something tedious | |
| 124930995 | badinage | frivolous banter | |
| 124930996 | stoic | someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions | |
| 124930997 | ignominious | (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | |
| 124930998 | supercilious | expressive of contempt | |
| 124930999 | tenebrous | dark and gloomy | |
| 124931000 | pecuniary | relating to or involving money | |
| 124931001 | panegyric | a formal expression of praise | |
| 124931002 | petulant | easily irritated or annoyed | |
| 124931003 | macabre | shockingly repellent | |
| 124931004 | tractable | easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) | |
| 124931005 | ubiquitous | being present everywhere at once | |
| 124931006 | eschewed | chhodna, shunned, avoided | |
| 124931007 | vituperative | marked by harshly abusive criticism | |
| 124931008 | pernicious | working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | |
| 124931009 | prosaic | lacking wit or imagination | |
| 124931010 | sanguine | confidently optimistic and cheerful/ alternate def: blood red | |
| 124931011 | insouciant | marked by blithe unconcern | |
| 124931012 | indolent | lazy | |
| 124931013 | ambidextrous | use of both hands | |
| 124931014 | polygamy | multiple spouses | |
| 124931015 | bellicose | war-like, pretentious, insolent (no smiles) | |
| 124931016 | alma mater | place from which you graduate | |
| 124931017 | gregarious | one of the crowd | |
| 124931018 | harridan | termagent, virago, shrew, B!#$& | |
| 124931019 | convival | with life, amicable | |
| 124931020 | astrology | study of stars | |
| 124931021 | carpe diem | sieze the day | |
| 124931022 | virago | harridan, shrew, B&^%$ | |
| 124931023 | segregate | separating from the herd | |
| 124931024 | melancholy | soft sadness | |
| 124931025 | polyglot | capable of speaking 4 or more languages | |
| 124931026 | wattles | turkey gobblers | |
| 124931027 | incorrigible | incapable of changing | |
| 124931028 | abhor | find repugnant, loathe, detest | |
| 124931029 | psychopathic | mentally deranged | |
| 124931030 | notorious | negatively famous | |
| 124931031 | disparity | inequality or difference in some respect | |
| 124931032 | vegetate | zone off, mentally shut down, make like a zucchini | |
| 124931033 | frugal | spend money wisely and cautiously | |
| 124931034 | enervated | tired, completely wiped out | |
| 124931035 | dubious | doubtful, questionable | |
| 124931036 | termagant | harpy, shrew, virago, harridan | |
| 124931037 | decapitate | cut off someones head | |
| 124931038 | asterisk | ***********<--- This | |
| 124931039 | ascetic | hermit, monk | |
| 124931040 | obstinate | obdurate, pig headed, stubborn | |
| 124931041 | deluge | flood | |
| 124931042 | conflagration | inferno, big fire | |
| 124931043 | remunerative | lucrative, profitable, money | |
| 124931044 | pilfer | steal | |
| 124931045 | octegenarian | a person in their 80's | |
| 124931046 | contentious | disputations, arguementative | |
| 124931047 | frank | honestly blunt | |
| 124931048 | diaphanous | see through gauzy material | |
| 124931049 | despot | absolute ruler | |
| 124931050 | din | raucous noisely | |
| 124931051 | timorous | timid | |
| 124931052 | inundate | overwhelm | |
| 124931053 | cache | a hidden spot | |
| 124931054 | pseudo | Root Word: false | |
| 124931055 | bellum | Root Word: war | |
| 124931056 | ego | Root Word: self | |
| 124931057 | oct | Root Word: 8 | |
| 124931058 | phobia | Root Word: fear | |
| 124931059 | mono | Root Word: one |
