7748813351 | adhere | (v.) stick fast to (a surface or substance) | 0 | |
7748817527 | austerity | (n.) sternness or severity of manner or attitude | 1 | |
7746208913 | bigot | (n.) a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions; chauvinistic | 2 | |
7746214774 | brazen | (adj.) bold and without shame; shameless | 3 | |
7746214775 | charlatan | (n.) a person falsely claiming to have a special knowledge or skill; a fraud | 4 | |
7746214776 | composure | (n.) the state or feeling of being calm and in control of oneself; self control | 5 | |
7746217814 | cull | (v.) select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources | 6 | |
7746227259 | despondent | (adj.) in low spirits from loss of hope or courage; discouraged, downcast | 7 | |
7746220151 | diminish | (v.) to make or become smaller or less; reduce | 8 | |
7746227260 | endorse; endorsement | (v.) declare one's public approval or support of | 9 | |
7746231073 | equilibrium | (n.) a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced; symmetry | 10 | |
7746231074 | fickle | (adj.) changing frequently, especially as regards one's loyalties, interests, or affection; capricious | 11 | |
7746235620 | grovel | (v.) lie or move abjectly on the ground with one's face downward; prostrate oneself | 12 | |
7746235621 | histrionic | (adj.) overly theatrical or melodramatic in character or style; melodramatic | 13 | |
7746238949 | impudent | (adj.) not showing due respect for another person; impertinent | 14 | |
7746238950 | indigent | (adj.) poor, needy | 15 | |
7746244119 | lassitude | (n.) a state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy; lethargy | 16 | |
7746244120 | litigate; litigation | (v.) go to law; be a party to a lawsuit | 17 | |
7746246823 | magnitude | (n.) the great size or extent of something; enormity | 18 | |
7746246824 | minuscule | (adj.) very small; tiny | 19 | |
7746256932 | misanthrope; misanthropy | (n.) a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society | 20 | |
7746264515 | miser; miserly | (n.) a person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible; penny-pincher | 21 | |
7746264516 | monotony | (n.) lack of variety and interest; tedious repetition and routine | 22 | |
7746264517 | mystic | (adj.) inspiring a sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination; mysterious | 23 | |
7746267845 | novel | (adj.) new or unusual in an interesting way; original | 24 | |
7746271952 | ostentatious | (adj.) characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice; pretentious | 25 | |
7746271953 | parochial | (adj.) having a limited or narrow outlook or scope; narrow-minded | 26 | |
7746271954 | philatelist | (n.) stamp collector | 27 | |
7746274873 | placate | (v.) make (someone) less angry or hostile; pacify, mollify | 28 | |
7746274874 | placebo | (n.) a harmless pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefit to the patient than for any physiological effect | 29 | |
7746274875 | pout | (v.) push one's lips or one's bottom lip forward as an expression of petulant annoyance or in order to make oneself look sexually attractive | 30 | |
7746277304 | predestination | (n.) (as a doctrine in Christian theology) the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others | 31 | |
7746277305 | progenitor | (n.) a person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent | 32 | |
7746282185 | querulous | (adj.) complaining in a petulant or whining manner; petulant | 33 | |
7746282186 | reactionary | (adj.) (of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform; conservative | 34 | |
7746285874 | recombinant | (adj.) relating to or denoting an organism, cell, or genetic material formed by recombination | 35 | |
7746290584 | relic | (n.) an object surviving from an earlier time, especially one of historical or sentimental interest; artifact | 36 | |
7746290585 | ruse | (n.) an action intended to deceive or mislead someone; trick | 37 | |
7746290586 | secular | (adj.) denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis; nonreligious | 38 | |
7746297420 | shantytown | (n.) a deprived area on the outskirts of a town consisting of large numbers of crude dwellings | 39 |
AP Literature: Vocabulary Lesson 8 Flashcards
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