5248165642 | Acumen | (n) keenness of insight; quickness or accuracy of judgment syn: perspicacity, shrewdness, acuity ant: ignorance, stupidity, obtuseness | 0 | |
5248169445 | Adjudicate | (v) to act as judge in a matter; to settle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal syn: arbitrate, referee, mediate | 1 | |
5248173889 | Anachronism | (n) a chronological misplacing of events, objects, customs, or persons in regard to each other syn: chronological error | 2 | |
5248178495 | Apocryphal | (adj) of doubtful or questionable authenticity syn: fictitious, mythical, spurious, bogus ant: authentic, genuine, true | 3 | |
5248191064 | Disparity | (n) a difference or inequality in age, rank, degree, amount, or quality; a dissimilarity, unlikeness syn: discrepancy, incongruity ant: similarity, likeness, congruity | 4 | |
5248196647 | Dissimulate | (v) to hide or disguise one's true thoughts, feelings, or intentions syn: pretend, misrepresent ant: reveal | 5 | |
5248200281 | Empirical | (adj) derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, observation, or experiment, rather than by theory; so verifiable syn: observed, pragmatic ant: theoretical, hypothetical, conjectural | 6 | |
5248207223 | Flamboyant | (adj) highly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored; strikingly brilliant or bold syn: ostentatious, florid ant: staid, sedate, decorous, seemly, sober | 7 | |
5248212504 | Fulsome | (adj) offensively insincere or excessive; disgusting, sickening syn: inordinate, repulsive ant: understand, muted, restrained, agreeable | 8 | |
5248217811 | Immolate | (v) to kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire; to destroy or renounce for the sake of another syn: kill ant: save, preserve | 9 | |
5248220921 | Imperceptible | (adj) extremely slight; incapable of being perceived by the senses or the mind syn: minimal, undetectable ant: conspicuous, noticeable, flagrant | 10 | |
5248225223 | Lackey | (n) a uniformed male servant; a servile follower syn: toady, flunky, hanger-on ant: lord, liege, boss | 11 | |
5248229986 | Liaison | (n) the contact or means of communication between groups; someone acting as such a contact; any close relationship; a thickening or binding agent used in cooking syn: intermediary, channel | 12 | |
5248251087 | Monolithic | (adj) characterized by massiveness, solidness, and total uniformity syn: undifferentiated, massive, dense ant: diversified, variform, multifarious | 13 | |
5248255679 | Mot Juste | (n) the most suitable or exact word or expression ant: misnomer, misusage, malapropism | 14 | |
5248262409 | Nihilism | (n) a total rejection of existing laws; extreme radicalism ant: conservatism | 15 | |
5248265623 | Patrician | (n) a member of the ruling class; a person of high rank; (adj) belonging to, befitting, or characteristic of such a person syn: aristocrat, peer, highborn ant: commoner, plebeian | 16 | |
5248275882 | Propitiate | (v) to make someone or something favorably inclined toward oneself; to conciliate, satisfy, or appease syn: mollify ant: alienate, provoke, annoy | 17 | |
5248282986 | Sic | (adv) thus so; intentionally written so | 18 | |
5248285122 | Sublimate | (v) to redirect the energy of a biological or instinctive impulse into a higher or more acceptable channel syn: elevate | 19 |
AP Literature Vocab. Unit 10 Flashcards
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