AP BRITISH LITERATURE VOCABULARY FOR FINAL Flashcards

4535119266	austere	severe or stern in manner	0
4535120618	austere	without adornment or luxury, simple, plain	1
4535122180	austere	harsh or sour in flavor	2
4535123227	austere	forbidding, rigorous, puritanical, ascetic, unadorned	3
4535125514	cadaverous	pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse	4
4535127371	cadverous	corpselike, wasted, haggard, emaciated, ghastly	5
4535132059	concoct	to prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish)	6
4535134624	concoct	to devise, invent, fabricate	7
4535135458	concoct	create, fashion, rustle up	8
4535137685	debase	to lower in character, quality, or value	9
4535140203	debase	to degrade, adulterate	10
4535142874	debase	to cause to deteriorate	11
4535144711	debase	cheapen, corrupt, demean, depreciate	12
4535147911	desecrate	to commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverently	13
4535150788	desecrate	to contaminate, pollute	14
4535153807	desecrate	profane, defile, violate	15
4535156764	disconcert	to confuse	16
4535158201	disconcert	to disturb the composure of	17
4535159527	disconcert	upset, rattle, ruffle, faze	18
4535161515	inconsequential	trifling, unimportant	19
4535162553	inconsequetial	trivial, negligible, paltry	20
4535163674	infraction	a breaking of law or obligation	21
4535163675	infraction	violation, transgression, offense	22
4535174210	prate	to talk a great deal in a foolish or aimless fashion	23
4535178329	prate	prattle, blab, palaver	24
4535180063	redoubtable	inspiring fear or awe	25
4535182266	redoubtable	illustrious, eminent	26
4535183201	redoubtable	formidable, august	27
4535185452	restitution	the act of restoring someone or someting to the rightful owner or to a former state or position	28
4535190120	restitution	making good on a loss or damage	29
4535192456	restitution	reimbursement, redress restoration	30
4535194034	stalwart	strong and sturdy	31
4535195642	stalwart	brave	32
4535196891	stalwart	resolute	33
4535196892	stalwart	study, stout, intrepid, valiant	34
4535200224	consternation	dismay, confusion	35
4535201760	consternation	shock, amazement, bewilderment,dismay	36
4535206127	corpulent	fat	37
4535208001	corpulent	having a large, bulky body	38
4535208748	corpulent	overweight, heavy obese, stout, portly	39
4535209929	expurgate	to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text	40
4535213085	expurgate	to cleanse, purify	41
4535214508	expurgate	purge, censor, bowdlerize	42
4535216697	ignoble	mean, low, base	43
4535217525	ignoble	inferior, unworthy, sordid	44
4535220105	intemperate	immoderate, lacking in self-control	45
4535221090	intemperate	inclement	46
4535221091	intemperate	excessive, extreme, unrestrained, inordinate	47
4535223192	odium	hatred, contempt	48
4535226988	odium	disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful conduct	49
4535228188	odium	abhorrence, opprobrium, shame, ignominy	50
4535229859	perfidy	faithlessness, treachery	51
4535231958	perfidy	betrayal, disloyalty, treason	52
4535234849	relegate	to place in a lower position	53
4535236421	relegate	to assign, refer, turn over	54
4535237242	relegate	banish	55
4535237243	relegate	transfer, consign, demote, exile	56
4535239051	subservient	subordinate in capacity or role	57
4535240567	subservient	submissively obedient	58
4535241621	subservient	serving to promote some end	59
4535243366	subservient	secondary, servile, obsequious, useful	60
4535251507	abate	to make less in amount, degree, etc.	61
4535252373	abate	to subside, become less	62
4535253327	abate	to nullify	63
4535253328	abate	to deduct, omit	64
4535254896	abate	diminish, decrease, subside, let up	65
4535256997	anathema	an object of intense dislike	66
4535258649	anathema	a curse or strong denunciation	67
4535263952	anathema	malediction, imprecation, abomination	68
4535266442	astute	shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom	69
4535268126	astute	acute, sagacious, judicious, wily	70
4535843232	culpable	deserving blame, worthy of comdemnation	71
4535844369	culpable	guilty, delinquent, peccant, blameworthy	72
4535847362	dilatory	tending to delay or procrastinate	73
4535849506	dilatory	not prompt	74
4535849507	dilatory	intended to delay or postpone	75
4535850908	dilatory	stalling, slow, tardy, laggard	76
4535854031	egregious	conspicuous, standing out from the mass (used particularly in an unfavorable sense)	77
4535857429	egregious	glaring, flagrant, blatant	78
4535860138	irresolute	unable to make up one's mind, hesitating	79
4535861376	irresolute	indecisive, vacillating, wavering	80
4535862370	penury	extreme povery	81
4535863643	penury	barrenness, insufficiency	82
4535864926	penury	destitution, indigence	83
4535866126	recapitulate	to review a series of facts	84
4535868244	recapitulate	to sum up	85
4535869157	recapitulate	review, summarize, go over	86
4535870484	slovenly	untidy, dirty, careless	87
4535871989	slovenly	unkempt, slatternly, lax	88
4535876005	accrue	to grow or accumulate over time	89
4535877154	accure	to happen as a natural result	90
4535877155	accure	collect, accumulate, proceed from	91
4535878890	annotation	a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work	92
4535880273	bedlam	a state or scene of uproar and confusion	93
4535883066	bedlam	commotion, pandemonium, chaos, anarchy	94
4535884826	efficacious	effective, producing results	95
4535886380	efficacious	effectual, efficient, potent, powerful	96
4535888201	equanimity	calmness, composure, refusal to panic	97
4535890123	equanimity	tranquility, impertubability	98
4535892953	fortuitous	accidental, occurring by a happy chance	99
4535895102	fortuitous	unintentional,unplanned, random, lucky	100
4535897418	imperious	overbearing, arrogant	101
4535898629	imperious	seeking to dominate	102
4535898630	imperious	pressing, compelling	103
4535899836	imperious	domineering, magisterial, urgent, imperative	104
4535903282	invective	a strong denunciation or condemnation	105
4535905698	invective	abusive language	106
4535907539	invective	vituperation, abuse, philippic	107
4535909162	motley	showing great variety	108
4535911154	motley	composed of different elements of many colors	109
4535912524	motley	a jester's costume	110
4535913987	motley	a jester	111
4535915008	motley	variegate, heterogeneous, diverse	112
4535916433	munificent	extremely generous, lavish	113
4535918096	munificent	bounteous,liberal	114
4535919832	recondite	exceeding ordinary knowledge and understanding	115
4535921956	recondite	arcane, abstruse	116
4535923504	reprobate	a depraved, vicious, or unprincipled person, scoundrel	117
4535925915	reprobate	corrupt or unprincipled	118
4535928910	reprobate	to disapprove of, condemn	119
4535930660	reprobate	scoundrel,blackguard, immoral, corrupt	120
4535951393	reprove	to find fault with, scold, rebuke	121
4535952730	reprove	chastise, upbraid, reproach	122
4535958379	equivocate	to speak or act in a way that allows for more than one interpretation	123
4535959865	equivocate	to be deliberately vague or ambiguous	124
4535960972	equivocate	to talk out of both sides of one's mouth, palter, hedge	125

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