11386637197 | Pedantic | overly concerned with minute details or formalisms | 0 | |
11386637198 | Euphemistic | substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one | 1 | |
11386637199 | Pretentious | characterized by assumption of dignity or importance; making an exaggerated outward show | 2 | |
11386637200 | Sensuous | Of, relating to, or derived from the senses | 3 | |
11386637201 | Exact- | precise characterized by or using strict accuracy | 4 | |
11386637202 | Cultured | enlightened; refined; | 5 | |
11386637203 | Plain | clear to the mind; evident, manifest, or obvious; without intricacies or difficulties | 6 | |
11386637204 | Literal | accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical | 7 | |
11386637205 | Colloquial | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 8 | |
11386637206 | Artificial | lacking naturalness or spontaneity; forced; contrived; feigned; synthetic, counterfeit | 9 | |
11386637207 | Detached | impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased | 10 | |
11386637208 | Poetic | possessing the qualities or charm of poetry | 11 | |
11386637209 | Moralistic | Characterized by or displaying a concern with morality | 12 | |
11386637210 | Slang | very informal usage in vocabulary | 13 | |
11386637211 | Idiomatic | peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect | 14 | |
11386637212 | Esoteric | understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; private; secret; confidential | 15 | |
11386637213 | Symbolic | characterized by or involving the use of symbols | 16 | |
11386637214 | Simple | not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious; not complex or complicated | 17 | |
11386637215 | Figurative | of the nature of or involving a figure of speech | 18 | |
11386637216 | Bombastic | of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated | 19 | |
11386637217 | Abstruse | hard to understand; recondite; esoteric; secret, hidden | 20 | |
11386637218 | Grotesque | odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly | 21 | |
11386637219 | Vulgar | characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste; indecent | 22 | |
11386637220 | Scholarly | concerned with academic learning; of, like, or befitting a scholar | 23 | |
11386637221 | Insipid | without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid, bland | 24 | |
11386637222 | Precise | definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed, carefully distinct, explicit | 25 | |
11386637223 | Learned | having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite; | 26 | |
11386637224 | Picturesque | strikingly graphic or vivid; creating detailed mental images | 27 | |
11386637225 | Homespun | plain; unpolished; unsophisticated; simple; rustic | 28 | |
11386637226 | Provincial | belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local | 29 | |
11386637227 | Trite | lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale | 30 | |
11386637228 | Obscure | not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain | 31 | |
11386637229 | Archaic | marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; primitive; ancient; old | 32 | |
11386637230 | Verbose | characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy | 33 | |
11386637231 | Abstract | difficult to understand; abstruse | 34 | |
11386637232 | Biting | cutting, sarcastic | 35 | |
11386637233 | Brusque | abrupt in manner; blunt | 36 | |
11386637234 | Cacophonous | having a harsh or unpleasant sound; dissonant | 37 | |
11386637235 | Casual | without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand | 38 | |
11386637236 | Caustic | severely critical or sarcastic; biting, mordant, bitter, scathing | 39 | |
11386637237 | Concrete | constituting an actual thing or instance; real | 40 | |
11386637238 | Colorful | richly eventful or picturesque; presenting or suggesting vivid or striking scenes; spirited | 41 | |
11386637239 | Connotative | having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit | 42 | |
11386637240 | Crisp | invigorating, fresh, brisk, bracing | 43 | |
11386637241 | Curt | rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner; short, brief, concise | 44 | |
11386637242 | Denotative | the primary or specific meaning of a word. Dictionary definition | 45 | |
11386637243 | Divisive | creating dissension or discord; forming or expressing division | 46 | |
11386637244 | Emotional | pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions, temperamental | 47 | |
11386637245 | Euphonious | pleasant in sound; agreeable to the ear; characterized by euphony | 48 | |
11386637246 | Fanciful | characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance | 49 | |
11386637247 | Flowery | rhetorically ornate or precious; showy; bombastic | 50 | |
11386637248 | Formal | of, reflecting, or noting a usage of language in which syntax, pronunciation, etc., adhere to traditional standards of correctness and usage | 51 | |
11386637249 | Inflammatory | tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion; fiery; provocative | 52 | |
11386637250 | Informal | suitable to or characteristic of casual and familiar, but educated | 53 | |
11386637251 | Insincere | not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical | 54 | |
11386637252 | Jargon | the language, the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group | 55 | |
11386637253 | Loaded | charged with emotional or associative significance that hinders rational or unprejudiced consideration of the terms involved in a discourse | 56 | |
11386637254 | Lyrical | characterized by or expressing spontaneous, direct feeling; having the form and musical quality of a song | 57 | |
11386637255 | Melodious | of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful; sweet-sounding | 58 | |
11386637256 | Monosyllabic | having a vocabulary composed primarily of monosyllables or short, simple words. | 59 | |
11386637257 | Nostalgic | a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life | 60 | |
11386637258 | Offensive | causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying | 61 | |
11386637259 | Ornate | ostentatious, elaborately adorned, showy, embellished with rhetoric, high- flown | 62 | |
11386637260 | Passionate | having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid | 63 | |
11386637261 | Patriotic | expressing or inspired by patriotism; love of one's country | 64 | |
11386637262 | Political | of, pertaining to, or concerned with politics; government | 65 | |
11386637263 | Romantic | of, pertaining to, or of the nature of romance | 66 | |
11386637264 | Sentimental | expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia | 67 | |
11386637265 | Shocking | causing intense surprise, disgust, horror; staggering, astounding, startling | 68 | |
11386637266 | Sincere | free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest; genuine; real; pure | 69 | |
11386637267 | Subdued | quiet; inhibited; repressed; controlled; lowered in intensity or strength | 70 | |
11386637268 | Tame | lacking in excitement; dull; insipid; softened; meek; subdued | 71 | |
11386637269 | Technical | peculiar to or characteristic of a particular art, science, profession, trade | 72 | |
11386637270 | Unifying | to make or become a single unit; unite; combine, merge, fuse | 73 | |
11386637271 | Uppity | affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish | 74 | |
11386637272 | Pedantic | overly concerned with minute details or formalisms | 75 | |
11386637273 | Euphemistic | substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one | 76 | |
11386637274 | Pretentious | characterized by assumption of dignity or importance; making an exaggerated outward show | 77 | |
11386637275 | Sensuous | Of, relating to, or derived from the senses | 78 | |
11386637276 | Exact- | precise characterized by or using strict accuracy | 79 | |
11386637277 | Cultured | enlightened; refined; | 80 | |
11386637278 | Plain | clear to the mind; evident, manifest, or obvious; without intricacies or difficulties | 81 | |
11386637279 | Literal | accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical | 82 | |
11386637280 | Colloquial | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 83 | |
11386637281 | Artificial | lacking naturalness or spontaneity; forced; contrived; feigned; synthetic, counterfeit | 84 | |
11386637282 | Detached | impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased | 85 | |
11386637283 | Poetic | possessing the qualities or charm of poetry | 86 | |
11386637284 | Moralistic | Characterized by or displaying a concern with morality | 87 | |
11386637285 | Slang | very informal usage in vocabulary | 88 | |
11386637286 | Idiomatic | peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect | 89 | |
11386637287 | Esoteric | understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; private; secret; confidential | 90 | |
11386637288 | Symbolic | characterized by or involving the use of symbols | 91 | |
11386637289 | Simple | not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious; not complex or complicated | 92 | |
11386637290 | Figurative | of the nature of or involving a figure of speech | 93 | |
11386637291 | Bombastic | of speech, writing, etc.) high-sounding; high-flown; inflated | 94 | |
11386637292 | Abstruse | hard to understand; recondite; esoteric; secret, hidden | 95 | |
11386637293 | Grotesque | odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly | 96 | |
11386637294 | Vulgar | characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste; indecent | 97 | |
11386637295 | Scholarly | concerned with academic learning; of, like, or befitting a scholar | 98 | |
11386637296 | Insipid | without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid, bland | 99 | |
11386637297 | Precise | definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed, carefully distinct, explicit | 100 | |
11386637298 | Learned | having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite; | 101 | |
11386637299 | Picturesque | strikingly graphic or vivid; creating detailed mental images | 102 | |
11386637300 | Homespun | plain; unpolished; unsophisticated; simple; rustic | 103 | |
11386637301 | Provincial | belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local | 104 | |
11386637302 | Trite | lacking in freshness or effectiveness because of constant use or excessive repetition; hackneyed; stale | 105 | |
11386637303 | Obscure | not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain | 106 | |
11386637304 | Archaic | marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; primitive; ancient; old | 107 | |
11386637305 | Verbose | characterized by the use of many or too many words; wordy | 108 | |
11386637306 | Abstract | difficult to understand; abstruse | 109 | |
11386637307 | Biting | cutting, sarcastic | 110 | |
11386637308 | Brusque | abrupt in manner; blunt | 111 | |
11386637309 | Cacophonous | having a harsh or unpleasant sound; dissonant | 112 | |
11386637310 | Casual | without definite or serious intention; careless or offhand | 113 | |
11386637311 | Caustic | severely critical or sarcastic; biting, mordant, bitter, scathing | 114 | |
11386637312 | Concrete | constituting an actual thing or instance; real | 115 | |
11386637313 | Colorful | richly eventful or picturesque; presenting or suggesting vivid or striking scenes; spirited | 116 | |
11386637314 | Connotative | having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit | 117 | |
11386637315 | Crisp | invigorating, fresh, brisk, bracing | 118 | |
11386637316 | Curt | rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner; short, brief, concise | 119 | |
11386637317 | Denotative | the primary or specific meaning of a word. Dictionary definition | 120 | |
11386637318 | Divisive | creating dissension or discord; forming or expressing division | 121 | |
11386637319 | Emotional | pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions, temperamental | 122 | |
11386637320 | Euphonious | pleasant in sound; agreeable to the ear; characterized by euphony | 123 | |
11386637321 | Fanciful | characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance | 124 | |
11386637322 | Flowery | rhetorically ornate or precious; showy; bombastic | 125 | |
11386637323 | Formal | of, reflecting, or noting a usage of language in which syntax, pronunciation, etc., adhere to traditional standards of correctness and usage | 126 | |
11386637324 | Inflammatory | tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion; fiery; provocative | 127 | |
11386637325 | Informal | suitable to or characteristic of casual and familiar, but educated | 128 | |
11386637326 | Insincere | not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical | 129 | |
11386637327 | Jargon | the language, the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group | 130 | |
11386637328 | Loaded | charged with emotional or associative significance that hinders rational or unprejudiced consideration of the terms involved in a discourse | 131 | |
11386637329 | Lyrical | characterized by or expressing spontaneous, direct feeling; having the form and musical quality of a song | 132 | |
11386637330 | Melodious | of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful; sweet-sounding | 133 | |
11386637331 | Monosyllabic | having a vocabulary composed primarily of monosyllables or short, simple words. | 134 | |
11386637332 | Nostalgic | a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life | 135 | |
11386637333 | Offensive | causing resentful displeasure; highly irritating, angering, or annoying | 136 | |
11386637334 | Ornate | ostentatious, elaborately adorned, showy, embellished with rhetoric, high- flown | 137 | |
11386637335 | Passionate | having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid | 138 | |
11386637336 | Patriotic | expressing or inspired by patriotism; love of one's country | 139 | |
11386637337 | Political | of, pertaining to, or concerned with politics; government | 140 | |
11386637338 | Romantic | of, pertaining to, or of the nature of romance | 141 | |
11386637339 | Sentimental | expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia | 142 | |
11386637340 | Shocking | causing intense surprise, disgust, horror; staggering, astounding, startling | 143 | |
11386637341 | Sincere | free of deceit, hypocrisy, or falseness; earnest; genuine; real; pure | 144 | |
11386637342 | Subdued | quiet; inhibited; repressed; controlled; lowered in intensity or strength | 145 | |
11386637343 | Tame | lacking in excitement; dull; insipid; softened; meek; subdued | 146 | |
11386637344 | Technical | peculiar to or characteristic of a particular art, science, profession, trade | 147 | |
11386637345 | Unifying | to make or become a single unit; unite; combine, merge, fuse | 148 | |
11386637346 | Uppity | affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish | 149 |
AP Language Diction Words Flashcards
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