4018228722 | abeyance | state of being temporarily inactive, suspended, or set aside | 0 | |
4018230704 | ambivalent | having opposite and conflicting feelings about someone or something | 1 | |
4018245381 | beleaguer | to set upon from all sides; to surround with an army; to trouble, harass | 2 | |
4018246996 | carte blanche | full freedom or authority to act at one's own discretion | 3 | |
4018248659 | cataclysm | a sudden, violent, or devastating upheaval; a surging flood, deluge | 4 | |
4018252104 | debauch | to corrupt morally, seduce; to indulge in dissipation; an act or occasion of dissipation or vice | 5 | |
4018254886 | éclat | dazzling or conspicuous success or acclaim; great brilliance (of performance or achievement) | 6 | |
4018261847 | fastidious | overly demanding or hard to please; excessively careful in regard to details; easily disgusted | 7 | |
4018264649 | gambol | to jump or skip about playfully | 8 | |
4018266878 | imbue | to soak or stain thoroughly; to fill the mind | 9 | |
4018268806 | inchoate | just beginning; not fully shaped or formed | 10 | |
4018270530 | lampoon | a malicious satire; to satirize, ridicule | 11 | |
4018271784 | malleable | capable of being formed into different shapes; capable of being altered, adapted, or influenced | 12 | |
4018275698 | nemesis | an agent or force inflicting vengeance or punishment; retribution itself; an unbeatable rival | 13 | |
4018278738 | opt | to make a choice or decision | 14 | |
4018278739 | philistine | lacking in, hostile to, or smugly indifferent to cultural and artistic values or refinements; such a person | 15 | |
4018282045 | picaresque | involving or characteristic of clever rogues or adventurers | 16 | |
4018283922 | queasy | nauseated or uneasy; causing nausea or uneasiness; troubled | 17 | |
4018286329 | refractory | stubborn; hard or difficult to manage; not responsive to treatment or cure | 18 | |
4018287865 | savoir-faire | the ability to say and do the right thing in any situation; social competence | 19 | |
4018294355 | aberration | a departure from what is proper, right, expected, or normal; a lapse from a sound mental state | 20 | |
4018297857 | ad hoc | for this specific purpose; improvised; with respect to this | 21 | |
4018300093 | bane | the source or cause of fatal injury, death, destruction, or ruin; death or ruin itself; poison | 22 | |
4018301852 | bathos | the intrusion of commonplace or trite material into a context whose tone is lofty or elevated; grossly insincere or exaggerated sentimentality; the lowest phase, nadir; an anticlimax, comedown | 23 | |
4018308120 | cantankerous | ill-tempered,quarrelsome; difficult to get along or deal with | 24 | |
4018311466 | casuistry | the determination of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience by the application of general ethical principles; specious argument | 25 | |
4018315018 | de facto | actually existing or in effect, although not legally required or sanctioned; in reality, actually | 26 | |
4018318855 | depredation | the act of preying upon or plundering | 27 | |
4018318856 | empathy | a sympathetic understanding of or identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of someone or something else | 28 | |
4018322233 | harbinger | a forerunner, herald; to herald the approach of | 29 | |
4018324358 | hedonism | the belief that the attainment of pleasure is life's chief aim; devotion to or pursuit of pleasure | 30 | |
4018329462 | lackluster | lacking brilliance or vitality; dull | 31 | |
4018329495 | malcontent | discontented with or in open defiance of prevailing conditions; such a person | 32 | |
4018332586 | mellifluous | flowing sweetly or smoothly; honeyed | 33 | |
4018334915 | nepotism | undue favoritism to or excessive patronage of one's relatives | 34 | |
4018336386 | pander | to cater to or provide satisfaction for the low tastes or vices to others; a person who does this | 35 | |
4018339291 | peccadillo | a minor sin or offense; a trifling fault or shortcoming | 36 | |
4018344276 | pièce de résistance | the principal dish of a meal; the principal event, incident or item; an outstanding accomplishment | 37 | |
4018349730 | remand | to send or order back; in law, to send back to jail or to a lower court | 38 | |
4018351771 | syndrome | a group of symptoms or signs that collectively characterize or indicate a disease, disorder, abnormality, etc. | 39 | |
4018356941 | beatitude | a state of perfect happiness or blessedness; a blessing | 40 | |
4018358583 | bête noire | someone or something that one especially dislikes, dreads, or avoids | 41 | |
4018362289 | bode | to be an omen of; to indicate by signs | 42 | |
4018362290 | dank | unpleasantly damp or wet | 43 | |
4018364408 | ecumenical | worldwide or universal in influence or application | 44 | |
4018365683 | fervid | burning with enthusiasm or zeal; extremely heated | 45 | |
4018367172 | fetid | having an unpleasant or offensive odor | 46 | |
4018368522 | gargantuan | of immense size, volume, or capacity; enormous, prodigious | 47 | |
4018370413 | heyday | the period of greatest power, vigor, success, or influence; the prime years | 48 | |
4018371829 | incubus | a demon or evil spirit supposed to haunt human beings in their bedrooms at night; anything that oppresses or weighs upon one, like a nightmare | 49 | |
4018374464 | infrastructure | a basic foundation or framework; a system of public works; the resources and facilities required for an activity; permanent military installations | 50 | |
4018377967 | inveigle | to entice, lure, or snare by flattery or artful inducements; to obtain or acquire by artifice | 51 | |
4018381172 | kudos | the acclaim, prestige, or renown that comes as a result of some action or achievement | 52 | |
4018385254 | lagniappe | an extra or unexpected gift or gratuity | 53 | |
4018385255 | prolix | long-winded and wordy; tending to speak or write such a way | 54 | |
4018387521 | protégé | someone whose welfare, training or career is under the patronage of an influential person; someone under the jurisdiction of a foreign country or government | 55 | |
4018395162 | prototype | an original pattern or model; a primitive or ancestral form | 56 | |
4018396530 | sycophant | someone who attempts to win favors or advance himself by flattery or servile behavior; a slanderer, defamer | 57 | |
4018400011 | tautology | needless repetition of an idea by using different but equivalent words; a redundancy | 58 | |
4018402155 | truckle | to yield or submit tamely or submissively | 59 |
AP Language Section III Flashcards
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