AP American Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

4987604112	Circumspect	Careful, prudent and discreet	0
4987607710	Perspicacious	Shrewd and clear-sighted	1
4987611335	Pragmatic	Practical	2
4987611337	Didactic	Intrusive	3
4987613292	Gaffe	A clumsy social error or a faux pas	4
4987616440	Castigate	To scold, rebuke or harshly criticize	5
4987620427	Vituperative	Marked by harshly abusive condemnation	6
4987623643	Incontrovertible	Indisputable, not open to question	7
4987627166	Extrapolate	To infer/ estimate by extending known information	8
4987632093	Abstruse	Difficult to understand	9
4987634045	Substantiate	To support with proof or evidence; to verify	10
4987642046	Obsequious	Fawning and servile	11
4987646143	Conjecture	Inference or guesswork	12
4987649780	Eminent	Distinguished; prominent	13
4987657851	Extirpate	To destroy	14
4987657852	Disseminate	To scatter wildly, as in sowing seed	15
4987662222	Precocious	Exhibiting unusually early maturity or aptitude	16
4987666777	Pejorative	Disparaging, belittling, insulting	17
4987675503	Acumen	Quickness, accuracy, keenness of judgment or insight	18
4987684736	Reticent	Inclined to keep silent or reserved	19
4987691356	Magnanimous	Courageously or generously noble heart	20
4987695562	Adroit	Dextrous or deft	21
4987697195	Mendacious	Lying or untruthful	22
4987698789	Dialect	A regional variation of a language	23
4987700528	Apostrophe	Addressing someone or something that cannot respond	24
4987706990	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole of as part	25
4987736074	Personification	Giving human qualities or characteristics to inanimate objects	26
4987754288	Satire	Using humor to criticize society in order to point out something that needs to change	27
4987766897	Metaphor	Comparison using the verb of being	28
4987772216	Simile	Comparison using like or as	29
4987775754	Allusion	Passing or casual reference outside of the work	30
4987780370	Atmosphere	The mood, tone or feeling the writer is trying to convey with the description of the setting an objects	31
4987785298	Tone	Authors attitude towards subject of the work or the audience	32
4987805450	Parity	Equality, as in amount, status or value	33
4987807563	Pedantic	Excessively concerned with formal rules and knowledge	34
5115921872	Fastidious	Carefully attentive to detail, difficult to please	35
5115923742	Debunk	To expose untruths or exaggerated claims	36
5115925211	Dilatory	Habitually late	37
5115925212	Averse	Strongly disinclined	38
5115927541	Modicum	A small. moderate or token amount	39
5115929142	Mar	To damage or disfigure	40
5115930659	Ameliorate	To make something better, to improve	41
5115932332	Fallacy	A false notion or an illogical argument	42
5115934037	Proliferate	To grow or increase rapidly	43
5115935749	Assimilate	To absorb or become absorbed, to make or become similar	44
5115938283	Banal	Predictable, trite, drearily commonplace	45
5115939875	Vacillate	To sway from one side to another, to oscillate	46
5115942596	Nefarious	Extremely wicked or villainous	47
5115943963	Extraneous	Irrelevant or inessential	48
5115946083	Inundate	To overwhelm as if with a flood, to swamp	49
5115947455	Docile	Submissive to instruction, willing to be taught	50
5115948940	Impetuous	Impulsive and passionate	51
5115950461	Soporific	Inducing sleep	52
5115951515	Specious	Plausible or believable but actually false	53
5115953056	Augment	To make greater in size or quantity, to supplement	54
5115954583	Insolent	Insulting in manner or speech	55
5115955793	Obstinate	Stubbornly attached to an opinion, difficult	56
5115957372	Copious	Plentiful, having a large quantity	57
5115959182	Belie	To misrepresent or disguise	58
5115961631	Scintillating	Brilliant	59
5115963167	Verbal Irony	The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrast the literal or usual meaning of what he or she is saying	60
5115965925	Dramatic Irony	Inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the character in the play	61
5115969889	Situational Irony	A situation where actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended	62
5115973377	Allegory	A symbolic representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms	63
5115987640	Foreshadowing	A reference to what is to come- clues as to what is going to happen later on in the work	64
5115989385	Denouement	The final resolution of a plot - everything is explained and resolved	65
5115992237	Flat Character	Not fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose - one dimensional	66
5115996197	Round Character	A character whose personality, background, motives and other features are fully delineated - multi dimensional usually the main character(s)	67
5116001643	Dynamic Character	A literary or dramatic character who underfoot an important inner change whether in personality or attitude	68
5116005358	Static Character	A character who undergoes little or no change - no growth or development	69
5116007484	Stock Character	A character that is quickly recognized and accepted by the reader and requires no developing by the write - stereotypes or cliches	70
5420290868	Debilitate	To impair the strength of, to weaken	71
5420292142	Sanctimonious	Feigning piety or righteousness	72
5420293319	Dogmatic	Stubbornly attached to insufficiently proven beliefs	73
5420296008	Quell	To put down by force, to suppress	74
5420297654	Tangential	Merely touching or slightly connected, only superficially relevant	75
5420299536	Onerous	Troublesome or oppressive, burdensome	76
5420301746	Surreptitious	Secretive, sneaky	77
5420302934	Embellish	To ornament or decorate, to exaggerate	78
5420304730	Lugubrious	Mournful, dismal or gloomy	79
5420306083	Byzantine	Extremely complicated or devious	80
5420307361	Exonerate	To free from blame	81
5420308244	Concur	To agree	82
5420308282	Tenacity	Persistence	83
5420309159	Aesthetic	Having to do with the appreciation of beauty	84
5420310585	Extol	To praise highly	85
5420311372	Redundant	Needlessly repetitive	86
5420312845	Placid	Calm or quiet, undisturbed	87
5420313883	Juxtapose	To place side by side, especially for comparison and contrast	88
5420315492	Litigious	Prone to engage in lawsuits	89
5420316277	Austere	Without decoration, strict	90
5420317484	Opulent	Displaying great wealth	91
5420317485	Vex	To annoy or bother, to perplex	92
5420318754	Eclectic	Made up of a variety of sources or styles	93
5420319668	Debacle	A disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure	94
5420321236	Contiguous	Sharing an edge or boundary, touching	95
5420322566	Connotation	Something suggested or implied by a word or phrase, rather than being explicitly named or described	96
5420326758	Denotation	A word that names or signifies something specific - literal meaning of a word	97
5420328781	Hyperbole	Obvious and intentional exaggeration - not intended to be taken literally	98
5420330559	Understatement	To state or represent less strongly or strikingly than it should be - restrained, moderate or weak	99
5420333542	Imagery	Formation of mental images, figures or likenesses of things - figurative description or illustration appealing to the senses	100
5512021198	Reciprocate	To mutually take or give, to respond in kind	101
5512021845	Redolent	Fragrant, aromatic, suggestive (of)	102
5512022516	Innocuous	Having no adverse effect, harmless	103
5512023072	Arcane	Known or understood by only a few	104
5512023851	Flippant	Disrespectfully casual or humorous	105
5512024646	Epitome	A representative example of a type	106
5512025386	Ubiquitous	Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time, omnipresent	107
5512026400	Burgeon	To grow and flourish	108
5512026910	Repugnant	Arousing disgust or aversion, offensive, repulsive	109
5512027744	Idiosyncrasy	A characteristic peculiar to an individual group	110
5512028658	Duplicitous	Deliberatively deceptive	111
5512030322	Amiable	Friendly, agreeable, good-natured	112
5512030978	Vindictive	Disposed to seek revenge, spiteful	113
5512031785	Raze	To level to the ground, to demolish	114
5512032436	Brevity	The state of being brief in duration	115
5512032866	Tawdry	Gaudy and cheap	116
5512033305	Erudite	Characterized by deep, extensive learning	117
5512033938	Flagrant	Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable	118
5512034813	Demure	Modest and revered	119
5512035398	Denounce	To condemn openly	120
5512035901	Temperate	Moderate, restrained	121
5512036503	Fastidious	Carefully attentive to detail, difficult to please	122
5512036925	Orthodox	Adhering to the traditional and established, especially religious	123
5512037921	Penchant	A strong inclination or liking	124
5512038341	Conciliatory	Appeasing, soothing, showing willingness to reconcile	125
5512039400	Foil	A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character	126
5512041203	Diction	Style of writing or speaking as dependent upon word choice	127
5512042067	Inversion	Normal orders of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter	128
5512043452	Litotes	Figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expression	129
5512045512	Chiasmus	Rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect	130
6009010367	Haughty	H, arrogant, disdainful	131
6009012473	Superciliousness	S, arrogant, disdainful	132
6009014286	Banter	Witty conversation, the exchange of good-humored teasing	133
6009018615	Jaunty	Cheerful, lively	134
6009020101	Incessant	Continuing without pause or interruption	135
6009029488	Sumptuous	Splendid and expensive-looking, lavish	136
6009031916	Saunter	To stroll, to walk in a slow, relaxed manner	137
6009033898	Strident	Loud and harsh, grating	138
6009036485	Tumult	Clamor, a loud, confused noise, disorder	139
6009039134	Deft	Skillful, adept	140
6009040781	Wistful	Yearning or longing, nostalgic	141
6009042607	Pecuniary	Relating to money	142
6009044357	Complacent	Showing uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements, smug	143
6009049481	Subterfuge	Trickery, deceit used to achieve one's goal	144
6009051716	Wan	Pale, weak, strained	145
6009053758	Incredulous	Disbelieving	146
6009057224	Libel	A false or malicious statement about a person	147
6009058922	Pastoral	Associated with country life	148
6009060705	Reproach	Expression of disapproval or disappointment	149
6009063014	Disconcerting	Unsettling, troubling or unnerving	150
6009067523	Ingratiate	Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them	151
6009070283	Poignant	Evoking a sense of sadness or regret, touching	152
6009073230	Desolate	Miserable or despondent, bleak	153
6009074760	Vacuous	Demonstrating a lack of thought or intelligence	154
6009079064	Subtext	The underlying or implicit meaning - implied or hidden	155
6009093627	Epigram	A short often satirical saying - cliche	156
6009102059	Conceit	An excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, surprising	157
6009107936	Enjambment	One line of poetry goes into the next line - no punctuation	158
6009113015	Tautology	Needless repetition of an idea - waste of words/not adding much	159
6247822395	Conundrum	A puzzle; problem	160
6247822398	Quagmire	A difficult or complex situation	161
6247826807	Sacrosanct	Displaying a lack of moral or principles	162
6247831122	Pulchritude	Physical beauty	163
6247834647	Assail	To attack	164
6247834716	Polemic	An aggressive argument against a specific opinion	165
6247842088	Inchoate	Unformed or formless; in a beginning stage	166
6247850407	Neophyte	Someone who is young or inexperienced	167
6247853648	Surmise	To infer with little evidence	168
6247855794	Boon	A gift or blessing	169
6247855846	Rescind	To take back, repeal, revoke or cancel	170
6247861329	Invective	An angry verbal attack	171
6247861330	Licentious	Holy; something that should not be criticized	172
6247866178	Diffident	Shy, quiet, modest	173
6247872040	Panacea	A solution or remedy for all ills or difficulties	174
6247875161	Protean	Able to change shape, displaying great variety	175
6247878162	Clemency	Mercy	176
6247880112	Myriad	Consisting of a vary great number	177
6247882191	Pariah	An outcast	178
6247882192	Garrulous	Talkative, wordy	179
6247885010	Umbrage	Offense, resentment	180
6247887307	Anathema	A cursed, detested person	181
6247889603	Zenith	The highest point	182
6247891793	Nadir	The lowest point	183
6247891794	Evince	To show, reveal	184
6247897639	Stream of Consciousness	monologues - uninterrupted flow of thought	185
6247903833	Sonnet	poem - 14 lines	186
6247906766	Shakespearean Sonnet	Three quatrains with a couplet - rhyming poem	187
6247914271	Italian Sonnet	Petrachan - octave and sestet	188
6247921624	Volta	Moment in poem where it turns or shifts - Italian sonnet	189
6247925087	Sestina	6 stanzas with 3 line stance at the end - 39 lines with repeated words	190
6247929280	Villanelle	13 lines w	191

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