AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

9646857388	brazen	Shameless, bold, unabashed	0
9646859944	compunction	Qualms, misgivings, uneasiness	1
9646863527	din	Noise, ruckus, obnoxious sound	2
9646871348	edict	Proclamation, decree, order	3
9646875568	indiscretion	Uncalled for or inappropriate behavior	4
9646886375	perquisite	Privilege, bonus, right	5
9646889154	sepulcher	crypt, tomb, grave	6
9646893307	suppliant	Beggar, pleaded, petitioner	7
9646899945	tumult	Din, ruckus, racket	8
9646903607	marauding	Looting, plundering, stealing	9
9646908398	admonish	Scold, chastise, reprimand	10
9646915491	akimbo	Hands on hip	11
9646922227	lassitude	Fatigue, lethargy, weariness	12
9646925372	licentious	Naughty, promiscuous, immoral	13
9646928595	muse	Consider, ponder, dream	14
9646935560	pecuniary	Fiscal, financial, monetary	15
9646938945	plight	Dilemma, predicament, diffuculty	16
9646942557	presumptuous	Sassy, audacious, bold	17
9646950949	subversive	insurrectionary, seditious, troublemaking	18
9646956617	vacuous	Vacant, brainless, unintelligent	19
9646960925	avocation	Vocation, hobby, pastime	20
9646965471	callous	Insensitive, cold, heartless	21
9646969244	capricious	Inconstant, fickle, unpredictable	22
9646972219	disparity	Inequality, difference, variation	23
9646974857	efficacy	Success, effectiveness, ability	24
9646978649	epistle	Note, correspondence, letter	25
9646982084	hospice	Home for the sick	26
9646988240	impetus	Momentum, driving force, thrust	27
9647024809	moribund	Dying, terminal, expiring	28
9647029156	vacillate	To waver between two choices	29
9647038211	akin	Alike, similar, related	30
9647042559	corroborate	Verify, back-up, confirm	31
9647051183	inexorable	Inevitable, unstoppable, unavoidable	32
9647061684	nefarious	Sinful, evil, wicked	33
9647059249	insipid	Drab, uninspired, unimaginative	34
9647077477	physiognomy	Countenance, face, visage	35
9647090815	retinue	Personnel, entourage, staff	36
9647093888	suppliant	Pleading, petitioning, begging	37
9647102751	tedium	Monotony, ennui, boredom	38
9647107792	torrid	Scorching, hot, dry	39
9647118224	affront	Provoke, offend, insult	40
9647121768	blase	Indifferent, unimpressed, apathetic	41
9647125626	cajole	Persuade, talk into, coax	42
9647128887	choleric	Bad tempered, grumpy, irritable	43
9647138161	encumber	Hamper, inhibit, hinder	44
9647141411	feckless	Irresponsible, ineffective, weak	45
9647145976	impasse	Deadlock, standstill, stalemate	46
9647152653	indolent	Lazy, sluggish, idle	47
9647159487	lugubrious	Glum, somber, gloomy	48
9647170062	ribald	suggestive, rude, vulgar	49
9647179908	adulation	Praise, worship, idolization	50
9647183132	censure	Criticism, reprimand, an attack	51
9647193467	dissemble	Masquerade, feign, act	52
9647199650	dissimulation	Deceit, bluff, dissembling	53
9647211285	droll	Humorous, amusing, funny in a dry way	54
9658241668	expectorate	Cough up spit from back of throat	55
9658246477	palpate	Examine, touch, inspect	56
9658251881	peremptory	Haughty, arrogant, commanding	57
9658261424	pusillanimous	Timid, fearful, cowardly	58
9658265277	surfeit	Surplus, excess, abundance	59
9658276142	allay	reduce, diminish, lessen	60
9658286157	capacious	Spacious, roomy	61
9658521536	didactic	Teaching something	62
9658526981	diurnal	Daily, of the day	63
9658534759	ignominious	Humiliated, undignified, embarrassing	64
9877797239	mitigate	To alleviate, reduce, diminish	65
9877823662	palpitate	Shake, tremble, beat	66
9877854691	phlegmatic	Composed, collected, calm	67
9877895561	propitious	Favorable, promising, optimistic	68
9877915319	prostrate	To be laying flat or to lay flat	69
9877933293	acquiesce	Consent, comply, submit to	70
9877938548	amity	friendship, accord, peaceful relationship	71
9877943380	arduous	Difficult, strenuous, tiring	72
9877947067	gestalt	When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts	73
9877956515	inundate	Overwhelm, flood, overwhelm	74
9877968577	perjury	Lying under oath	75
9877977051	perspicuity	clarity transparency, clearness	76
9878000206	preposterous	Nonsensical, ridiculous, absurd	77
9878014744	trepidation	dread, fear, apprehension	78
9878029642	voluble	Chatty, talkative, wordy	79
9878042168	alacrity	Willingness, eagerness, readiness	80
9878061070	aplomb	assurance, self confidence, poise	81
9878099679	barrage	To overwhelm in quantity	82
9878109323	cognizant	Being aware	83
9878139099	collusion	Conspiracy, scheme, secret plot	84
9878231685	deleterious	Detrimental, damaging, harmful	85
9878235279	hegemony	Dominance, authority, leadership	86
9878249075	paradigm	Standard, model, example	87
9882079075	unctuous	Gushing, insincere, excessively flattering	88
9882084484	urbane	Courteous, sophisticated, smooth	89
9882090108	ambulatory	Able to walk or having to do with walking	90
9882096477	churlish	surly, rude, impolite	91
9882108898	diffident	Shy, bashful, unconfident	92
9882114541	ennui	Boredom, lassitude, tedium	93
9882122191	inscrutable	Puzzling, incomprehensive, cryptic	94
9882134143	prognosticate	Predict, foretell, foresee	95
9882148080	schism	Division, rift, split	96
9882153216	sedition	Acts encouraging rebellion	97
9882159606	wizen	Wrinkly, shriveled up	98
9882166772	austere	Strict, stern, severe	99
9882172840	corpulent	Obese, fat, overweight	100
9882178791	derisive	Mocking, teasing, scoffing	101
9882184004	effeminate	Unmanly, womanish, feminine	102
9882190037	jocund	Cheerful, lighthearted, merry	103
9882198208	manifest	clear obvious, apparent	104
9882203309	ostentatious	Showy, gaudy, flamboyant	105
9882210109	sanguine	Optimistic, positive, hopeful	106
9882217743	strident	Loud, harsh, shrill	107
9882222991	vehement	Intense, passionate, forceful	108
9882521479	elegiac	Sorrowful, melancholy, mournful	109
9882526120	fecund	Fertile, fruitful	110
9882530800	infirmity	Illness, ailment, weakness	111
9882541976	malady	Disease, illness, ailment	112
9882547176	nuance	Fine distinction, subtle difference	113
9882561086	profligate	Extravagant, wasteful, not thrifty	114
9882574136	remonstrance	Protest, opposition	115
9882583831	scintillate	Sparkly, shine, light-up	116
9882588206	terse	Short, brief, to the point	117
9882600858	vitiate	Tarnish, taint	118
9882618220	ambivalent	Uncertain, indecisive, torn	119
9882624817	analogous	Similar, comparable, parallel	120
9882630539	emissary	ambassador, delegate, messenger	121
9882635781	felicity	Happiness, joy, bliss	122
9883439120	incendiary	Designed to cause fires	123
9883444291	magnanimous	Generous, forgiving to enemies	124
9883450556	morose	Gloomy, glum, moody	125
9883454425	repartee	Banter, quip, jokes	126
9883464337	ubiquitous	Omnipresent, universal, everywhere	127
9883473866	venerable	Respected, esteemed, revered	128
9883481960	countenance	Face, expression, physiognomy	129
9883490986	deposition	The act of removing from power	130
9883497149	discursive	Fluent, flowing, eloquent	131
9883509598	epigram	Quip, adage, one liner	132
9883515434	feign	Fake, pretend, simulate	133
9883520965	interpolate	Insert, interject, add	134
9883526198	laconic	Brief, terse, concise	135
9883535854	mien	Appearance, demeanor, expression	136
9883543800	veracity	Truth, accuracy, correctness	137
9883553865	wry	Sardonic, mocking, satirical	138
9883558501	confound	surprise, startle, astonish	139
9883566443	curate	Select, organize, present	140
9883572628	ethereal	Unearthly, celestial, heavenly	141
9883577906	gambol	frolic, skip, jump around	142
9883591404	mutability	Tendency to change	143
9883599849	nascent	Emerging, beginning, arising	144
9883605991	nonplused	To puzzle, perplex, confuse	145
9883614801	pedantic	Perfectionist, precise, meticulous	146
9886366232	quail	Wither, decline, cower	147
9886372100	rhetorical	Expressed in order to persuade	148
9886382098	effusive	Gushing, unrestrained, overexpressed feelings	149
9886416798	fatuous	Silly, foolish, childish	150
9886423013	febrile	Feverish, burning, flushed	151
9886427061	incredulous	Disbelieving, doubtful, dubious	152
9886434724	interminable	Endless, everlasting, incessant	153
9886442620	obliquely	Indirectly, diagonally, slant	154
9886448622	pernicious	Harmful, detrimental, damaging	155
9886460061	sardonic	Mocking, sarcastic, cynical	156
9886464435	ultimatum	Command, rule, order	157
9886470216	writhe	Squirm, thrash, wriggle	158
9886477478	astute	Sharp, quick, canny	159
9886481424	beseech	Implore, ask urgently, supplicate	160
9886490752	capitulate	Surrender, concede, give in	161
9886500627	deprecating	Disapproving, deplorable, unfavorable	162
9886505049	glean	Obtain, gather, extract	163
9886515723	obfuscate	confuse, muddle, bewilder	164
9886522881	pathos	Tragedy, sadness, emotion	165
9886529056	primeval	Ancient, prehistoric, primal	166
9886534711	salubrious	Healthy, pleasant, agreeable	167
9886542536	solicitous	Concerned, attentive, caring	168
9886549899	albeit	Although, even though	169
9886554226	bereft	Lacking a nonmaterial thing	170
9886576012	gratis	Free, for nothing, without charge	171
9886587724	intercession	Intervention, involvement, action	172
9886594281	lineament	Specific feature of the face	173
9886602583	presage	Omen, warning, sign	174
9886608712	prodigal	Wasteful, extravagant, imprudent	175
9886617329	prolixity	Wordiness, longwindedness, lengthiness	176
9886631915	sinecure	Easy job with a good status/benefit	177
9886643508	visage	Face, countenance, profile	178
9886652513	Complex sentence	contains independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses	179
9886690597	Compound sentence	Contains two independent clauses joined by a comma and coordinating conjunction	180
9886716042	Compound/complex sentence	Two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses	181
9886738880	loose sentence	Reveals key info right away and unfolds after that	182
9886751717	Periodic sentence	Main idea or most important info isn't revealed until the end	183
9886765156	Balanced sentence	Similar to parallel structure, containers two similar elements	184
9886776547	chiasmus	Repetition and arrangement of two key terms in the ABBA pattern	185
9886790459	asyndeton	omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses	186
9886798875	polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	187
9886810352	anaphora	Repetition of same word or group of words at beginning of successive clauses	188
9886830257	epistrophe	Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses with same word or words	189
9886863242	Italian/petrarchan sonnet	14 lines in iambic pentameter divided into 8 and 6 with a problem and solution	190
9886879685	English sonnet	14 lines in iambic pentameter divided into 12 and 2 with a problem and solution	191
9886894086	ode	No prescribed pattern, lyric poem with lofty emotions and a serious topic	192
9886912172	limerick	5 lines with fixed form and humorous style	193
9886932061	ballad	No particular pattern, song that tells a story	194
9886944618	villanelle	Fixed form 19 lines with 6 stanzas and no particular content	195
9886964758	Dramatic monologue	lyric poem where speaker addresses distinct but silent audience	196
9886980912	Narrative poem	Tells a simple or complex story and can be short or long	197
9887007588	First person-subjective	"I" or "we" used during action, present tense, unreliable	198
9887024893	First-person objective	"I" or "we" used after action has concluded, past tense, more reliable	199
9887044967	Third-person omniscient	nonparticipant, knows all character thoughts, usually summaries, reliable	200
9887064282	Third-person limited omniscient	nonparticipant, knows one character's thoughts, somewhat reliable	201
9887072111	Third-person objective	nonparticipant, observer, loses reliability, journalistic	202

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