6158564115 | difficult to understand, recondite, concealed | abstruse | 0 | |
6158564116 | friendly, courteous, amiable | affable | 1 | |
6158564117 | excessive boldness, rashness, daring | audacity | 2 | |
6158564118 | extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant | contrite | 3 | |
6158564119 | believing on slight evidence, gullible | credulous | 4 | |
6158564120 | moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act | depravity | 5 | |
6158564121 | to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval | deprecate | 6 | |
6158564122 | instructive, designed to teach | didactic | 7 | |
6158564123 | inactive, sleeping | dormant | 8 | |
6158564124 | mysterious, inexplicable | enigmatic | 9 | |
6158564125 | scholarly | erudite | 10 | |
6158564126 | foreign, unfamiliar | exotic | 11 | |
6158564127 | to mix or join (usually by melting) | fuse | 12 | |
6158564128 | unchanging | immutable | 13 | |
6158564129 | incapable of being reformed or improved | incorrigible | 14 | |
6158564130 | to detest | loathe | 15 | |
6158564131 | to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe | mitigate | 16 | |
6158564132 | to cause to not be in effect, to negate | nullify | 17 | |
6158564133 | oposed to war or use of force | pacifistic | 18 | |
6158564134 | making an extravagant outward show, self-important | pretentious | 19 | |
6158564135 | introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action | prologue | 20 | |
6158564136 | to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke | recant | 21 | |
6158564137 | overly submissive | servile | 22 | |
6158564138 | fear, trembling, agitation | trepidation | 23 | |
6158564139 | to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against | villify | 24 | |
6158596003 | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed; receiving end | audience | 25 | |
6158602903 | A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge; | authority | 26 | |
6158610032 | Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue; Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair | bias | 27 | |
6158616247 | Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source; | cite | 28 | |
6158623937 | An assertion, usually supported by evidence; | claim | 29 | |
6158633350 | A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text | close reading | 30 | |
6158643912 | An informal or conversational use of language; An informal expression that is more often used in casual conversation than in formal speech or writing. "Latinas are in oppressive structures. We can fool ourselves, but we'd still be getting ~dumped on.~" | colloquialism | 31 | |
6158653642 | Shared beliefs, values, or positions | common ground | 32 | |
6158659260 | A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | complex sentence | 33 | |
6158662918 | A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding | concession | 34 |
AP Language and Composition Lesson 3 Definitions Flashcards
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