5993380619 | abortive | failing to succeed; unsuccessful | 0 | |
5993380620 | bruit | to voice abroad; rumor | 1 | |
5993381744 | contumelious | insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment. | 2 | |
5993381745 | dictum | 1. an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion. 2. a saying; maxim. | 3 | |
5993382395 | ensconce | to settle securely or snugly | 4 | |
5993382396 | iconoclastic | attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions, etc., as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity: | 5 | |
5993383597 | in media res | into the middle of a narrative; without preamble. | 6 | |
5993383598 | internecine | of or relating to conflict or struggle within a group: | 7 | |
5993384655 | maladroit | lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless | 8 | |
5993384656 | maudlin | tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental | 9 | |
5993385510 | modulate | to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down. | 10 | |
5993385511 | portentous | an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous. | 11 | |
5993386469 | prescience | knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight. | 12 | |
5993386470 | quid pro quo | something that is given or taken in return for something else. | 13 | |
5993387439 | salubrious | favorable to or promoting health; healthful | 14 | |
5993388091 | saturnalian | 1. the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking. 2. unrestrained revelry; orgy | 15 | |
5993388092 | touchestone | a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing. | 16 | |
5993388093 | traumatic | of, relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound. | 17 | |
5993390270 | vitiate | to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil. | 18 | |
5993390271 | waggish | like a wag; roguish in merriment and good humor; jocular: | 19 |
AP Language Vocab 6 Flashcards
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