5295981490 | abjure | Give up, renounce; repudiate, recant, or shun (especially formally or under oath) | 0 | |
5295982489 | abrogate | (v.) to repeal, cancel, declare null and void | 1 | |
5295983615 | abstemious | (adj.) moderate, sparing (as in eating and drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline | 2 | |
5295986187 | acumen | Sharpness of insight Mental keenness Mental sharpness ability to discern or discriminate; shrewdness Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight | 3 | |
5295986210 | auspicious | Favorable Favorable, fortunate Signaling favorable or promising results | 4 | |
5295990395 | belie | Contradict; give a false impression | 5 | |
5295992226 | bellicose | Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight. | 6 | |
5295993240 | churlish | Rude boorish; rude; N. churl: boor; yahoo (adj.) lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude | 7 | |
5295999222 | deleterious | Harmful (adj.) harmful, injurious | 8 | |
5296000320 | diffident | Lacking self-confidence Shy (adj.) shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved | 9 | |
5296015182 | enervate | To weaken to reduce in strength (v) weaken, tire To weaken | 10 | |
5296024906 | enfranchise | give voting rights (v.) to grant the vote to (The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised women.) admit to the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote); CF. franchise | 11 | |
5296026413 | epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight Revelation A sudden realization | 12 | |
5296027551 | evanescent | (adj.) vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy (adj.) fleeting, momentary (My joy at getting promoted was evanescent because I discovered that I would have to work much longer hours in a less friendly office.) tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing | 13 | |
5296030898 | expurgate | to censor (v.) to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify Censor; remove objectionable or offensive parts (v.) to remove offensive or incorrect parts, usually of a book (The history editors expurgated from the text all disparaging and inflammatory comments about the Republican Party.) | 14 | |
5296034236 | facetious | (adj.) humorous, not meant seriously Joking, humorous, esp. inappropriately; not serious, concerned with frivolous things (adj) joking, humorous, esp. inappropriately; not serious, concerned with frivolous things | 15 | |
5296041026 | fatuous | stupid; foolishly self-satisfied Foolish adj. smugly foolish; complacently stupid | 16 | |
5296043836 | feckless | (adj.) lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable | 17 | |
5296044555 | filibuster | A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue. A lengthy speech designed to delay or kill the vote on a bill; used only in the Senate an action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures. | 18 | |
5296045962 | gauche | (adj.) awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy clumsy (in social behavior); coarse and uncouth | 19 | |
5296048183 | hegemony | the domination of one state or group over its allies Domination, authority; influence by one country over others socially, culturally, economically, etc. leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation. | 20 | |
5296049682 | incognito | Disguised in disguise disguised; pretending not to be oneself (adj., adv.) in a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity; (n.) the state of being disguised; a person in disguise with one's identity concealed | 21 | |
5296052151 | incontrovertible | (adj.) unquestionable, beyond dispute Indisputable | 22 | |
5296059838 | inculcate | (v.) to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly to teach or impress by frequent repetition; to instill | 23 | |
5296062121 | interpolate | to insert; change by adding new words or material (v.) to insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction to insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction | 24 | |
5296064788 | jejune | (adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile adjective: dull; lacking flavor | 25 | |
5296087658 | kowtow | a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission verb: to bow or act in a subservient manne a Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | 26 | |
5296089568 | loquacious | Talkative Very talkative Extremely talkative (adj.) talkative, wordy; fond of talking talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous; wordy. | 27 | |
5296094428 | lugubrious | exaggeratedly mournful sorrowful; mournful; dismal sad; gloomy | 28 | |
5296096364 | obsequious | Overly submissive and eager to please (adj) servile, very compliant, fawning (adj.) Marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons | 29 | |
5468737368 | Paradigm | ... (n) model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc. | 30 | |
5468737369 | Precipitous | ... dangerously high or steep | 31 | |
5468737370 | Recapitulate | ... (v.) to review a series of facts; to sum up (v.) - to repeat, reiterate | 32 | |
5468737371 | Subjugate | ... (v.) to conquer by force, bring under complete control | 33 | |
5468737372 | Tempestuous | ... stormy, raging, furious | 34 | |
5468737373 | Unctuous | ... (adj.) Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable | 35 | |
5468737374 | Vehement | ... (adj.) intense, forceful, powerful | 36 | |
5468737375 | Winnow | ... (v.) to get rid of something unwanted, delete; to sift through to obtain what is desirable; to remove the chaff from the wheat by blowing air on it; to blow on, fan | 37 | |
5468737376 | Towdry | ...showy but cheap and of poor quality. | 38 | |
5468737377 | Stymie | ... to block; to thwart | 39 | |
5815122718 | circumspect | cautious; aware of potential consequences | 40 | |
5815123770 | efface | (v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed | 41 | |
5815124284 | proliferate | To grow or reproduce rapidly | 42 | |
5815125262 | sully | to tarnish; taint (v.) to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch | 43 | |
5815127219 | abscond | to leave secretly (v.) to run off and hide | 44 | |
5815128544 | intrepid | Fearless fearless; resolutely courageous | 45 | |
5815129283 | paramount | chief in importance, above all others (adj.) greatest in importance, rank, character (It was paramount that the bomb squad disconnect the blue wire before removing the fuse.) | 46 | |
5815129945 | doleful | Sad; dreary Mournful or full of sorrow; causing grief | 47 | |
5815131486 | superfluous | Exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess Additional to what is necessary; extra | 48 | |
5815135372 | exhorbitant | unreasonably high; excessive Excessive | 49 | |
5815135883 | tantalize | (v.) to tease, torment by teasing to torment or tease by showing something desirable while keeping it out of reach | 50 |
AP English Literature Flashcards
Primary tabs
Need Help?
We hope your visit has been a productive one. If you're having any problems, or would like to give some feedback, we'd love to hear from you.
For general help, questions, and suggestions, try our dedicated support forums.
If you need to contact the Course-Notes.Org web experience team, please use our contact form.
Need Notes?
While we strive to provide the most comprehensive notes for as many high school textbooks as possible, there are certainly going to be some that we miss. Drop us a note and let us know which textbooks you need. Be sure to include which edition of the textbook you are using! If we see enough demand, we'll do whatever we can to get those notes up on the site for you!