14136222292 | Blithe | adj showing a casual and cheerful indifference | 0 | |
14136222293 | Cavalier | adj showing a lack of proper concern | 1 | |
14136222294 | Culpability | noun responsibility for a fault or wrong | 2 | |
14136222295 | Excoriate | verb criticize severely. | 3 | |
14136222296 | Legerdemain | noun deception; trickery. skillful use of hands | 4 | |
14136222297 | Noisome | adjective disagreeable; unpleasant. having an extremely offensive smell. | 5 | |
14136222298 | Nugatory | adjective useless | 6 | |
14136222299 | Piety | noun related to something being religious | 7 | |
14136222300 | Procrustean | adjective enforcing uniformity without caring about differences | 8 | |
14136222301 | Pyrrhic | adjective (of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor. | 9 | |
14136222302 | Saturnine | adj dark in coloring and moody or mysterious slow and gloomy | 10 | |
14136222303 | Sinecure | noun a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit. | 11 | |
14136222304 | Sobriquet | noun a person's nickname | 12 | |
14136222305 | Tome | noun a book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one. | 13 | |
14136222306 | Traduce | verb speak badly of or tell lies about (someone) so as to damage their reputation. | 14 | |
14136222307 | Urbane | adjective suave, courteous, and refined in manner. | 15 |
AP Language Vocab Section 14 Flashcards
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