7264994893 | acclimate | adjust to climate or environment; adapt | ![]() | 0 |
7264998761 | ebullient | (adj.) overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling | ![]() | 1 |
7265002063 | fatuous | (adj.) stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way | ![]() | 2 |
7265005153 | consensus | a general agreement | ![]() | 3 |
7265006459 | megalomania | a delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality | ![]() | 4 |
7265009830 | milieu | (n.) the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops | ![]() | 5 |
7265016123 | pernicious | (adj.) highly injurious or destructive | ![]() | 6 |
7265019210 | ruminate | (vb.) to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly | ![]() | 7 |
7265023639 | tenacity | (n.) the quality or state of being persistent | ![]() | 8 |
7265031962 | visage | (n.) the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal | ![]() | 9 |
7269186998 | Countenance | facial expression (n); to accept, support, or approve of something (vb) | ![]() | 10 |
7269186999 | Felicity | (n) happiness or blissfulness | ![]() | 11 |
7269187000 | Gravity | (n) seriousness or importance | ![]() | 12 |
7269187001 | Integrity | (n) firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values; incorruptibility | ![]() | 13 |
7269187002 | Propriety | (n) being proper, suitable, appropriate | ![]() | 14 |
7399529814 | Objectivity | N. The quality of being fair, impartial, neutral | ![]() | 15 |
7399529815 | Languid (adj) | Dropping as if from exhaustion; sluggish in character or disposition | ![]() | 16 |
7399529816 | vestige (n) | A trace, mark or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) ancient or lost | ![]() | 17 |
7399529817 | assert (v) | state of fact or belief confidently and forcefully | ![]() | 18 |
7399529818 | assertion (n.) | A confident and forceful statement of fact or belief | ![]() | 19 |
7399529819 | Chicanery (n.) | The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose | ![]() | 20 |
7475061785 | Analogous | comparable | ![]() | 21 |
7475061786 | Egalitarian | Believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities | ![]() | 22 |
7475061787 | malfeasance | wrongdoing or bad conduct by a public official | ![]() | 23 |
7475061788 | Refute (v) | Prove to be wrong or false | ![]() | 24 |
7475061789 | soporific | sleep-inducing | ![]() | 25 |
8361876918 | connotation | (n) an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | ![]() | 26 |
8361902949 | maxim | (n) a pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct | ![]() | 27 |
8361924906 | dichotomy | (n) a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different logic | ![]() | 28 |
8361944967 | equivocate | (v) use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself | ![]() | 29 |
8361968949 | anthropomorphic | (adj) the attribution or behavior to a god, animal or object | ![]() | 30 |
8362004200 | obscure | (adj) not clear or plain; vague | ![]() | 31 |
8362016514 | slander | (n) a false, malicious, and defamatory statement; to defame | ![]() | 32 |
8362036870 | complaisant | (adj) agreeable; gracious | ![]() | 33 |
8362046181 | pithy | (adj) concise and forcefully expressed | ![]() | 34 |
8362053119 | anecdote | (n) short account of an incident | ![]() | 35 |
8362069985 | impartial | (adj) treating all rivals or disputants equally, fair and just | ![]() | 36 |
8362084650 | prosaic | (adj) commonplace or dull; ordinary | ![]() | 37 |
8362095384 | syntax | (n) the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-framed sentences in a language | ![]() | 38 |
8362114228 | prodigious | (adj) remarkably or impressively great in extent , size or degree | ![]() | 39 |
8362129981 | euphemism | (n) the act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considerable harsh, blunt or offensive | ![]() | 40 |
8362154811 | paradigm | (n) a typical pattern of something; a model | ![]() | 41 |
8362165808 | dialectic | (adj) the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions | ![]() | 42 |
8362182045 | Vignette | (n) a brief evocative description; account or episode | ![]() | 43 |
8362197538 | vitriolic | (adj) filled with bitter criticism | ![]() | 44 |
8362211104 | Truncated | (v) shorten (something) by cutting off the top or the end | ![]() | 45 |
8362225140 | discourse | (n) written or spoken communication or debate | ![]() | 46 |
8362235449 | vilify | (v) to utter slanderous and abusive statements against | ![]() | 47 |
8362250200 | colloquial | (n) pertaining to words or expressions more suitable for speech than writing; in informal, conventional style | ![]() | 48 |
8362273323 | premise | (n) a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion | ![]() | 49 |
8362292861 | farce | (n) a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations | ![]() | 50 |
AP English Language Vocab Semester 1 Flashcards
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