4187392329 | artificial | lacking naturalness or spontaneity; forced; contrived; feigned; synthetic, counterfeit | 0 | |
4187392330 | colloquial | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal | 1 | |
4187393519 | colorful | richly eventful or picturesque; presenting or suggesting vivid or striking scenes; spirited | 2 | |
4187393520 | concrete | constituting an actual thing or instance; real; pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular | 3 | |
4187393521 | connotative | having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit; The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning; an idea or meaning suggested by a thing | 4 | |
4187394851 | cultured | the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc | 5 | |
4187394852 | elevated | formal | 6 | |
4187394853 | emotional | pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions; appealing to the emotions; showing or revealing strong emotions, temperamental, effusive, demonstrative, sentimental | 7 | |
4187396547 | esoteric | understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; private; secret; confidential; belonging to a select few | 8 | |
4187396548 | euphemistic | substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one. "Upset Stomach" instead of puke, barf, up chuck | 9 | |
4187397649 | exact | characterized by or using strict accuracy | 10 | |
4187397650 | grotesque | odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre, distorted, deformed, weird | 11 | |
4187399413 | homespun | unpolished; unsophisticated; simple; rustic: homespun humor | 12 | |
4187399414 | idiomatic | peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect: idiomatic French. having a distinct style or character, esp. in the arts: idiomatic writing; an idiomatic composer. containing or using many idioms (idiom=an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language; regional speech or dialect eat crow) | 13 | |
4187400581 | insipid | without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality. bland | 14 | |
4187400582 | jargon | the language, esp. the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group | 15 | |
4187401853 | learned | having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite; | 16 | |
4187401854 | moralistic | Characterized by or displaying a concern with morality; marked by narrow-minded morality | 17 | |
4187403412 | obscure | not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.; not clear to the understanding; hard to perceive: obscure motivations; not expressing the meaning clearly or plainly | 18 | |
4187403413 | pedantic | overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching; ostentatious (pretentious/intended to attract notice or attention of others) in one's learning | 19 | |
4187405266 | picturesque | strikingly graphic or vivid; creating detailed mental images: a picturesque description of the Brazilian jungle; having pleasing or interesting qualities; strikingly effective in appearance | 20 | |
4187405267 | plain | clear to the mind; evident, manifest, or obvious; without intricacies or difficulties; with little or no embellishment, decoration, or enhancing elaboration; ordinary | 21 | |
4187405268 | poetic | possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature | 22 | |
4187406751 | precise | definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed, carefully distinct, explicit | 23 | |
4187406752 | pretentious | characterized by assumption of dignity or importance; making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious; | 24 | |
4187406753 | prosaic | ordinary, every day, opposite of poetic | 25 | |
4187407986 | scholarly | concerned with academic learning; of, like, or befitting a scholar; academic | 26 | |
4187407987 | sensuous | Of, relating to, or derived from the senses; Appealing to or gratifying the senses | 27 | |
4189653191 | simple | not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious; not complex or complicated; natural, unembellished; ordinary | 28 | |
4189653192 | slang | very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road. | 29 | |
4189653193 | symbolic | characterized by or involving the use of symbols | 30 | |
4189654803 | vulgur | characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste; indecent; obscene; lewd | 31 |
AP Language Diction Words Flashcards
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