7426079194 | insipid | lacking qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge; dull | 0 | |
7426079195 | precise | marked by exactness and accuracy of expression | 1 | |
7426079196 | euphonious | pleasing to the ear | 2 | |
7426079197 | cacophonus | harsh, grating | 3 | |
7426079198 | abstract | theoretical; lacking form; difficult to understand | 4 | |
7426079199 | concrete | grounded; relating to an actual specific thing | 5 | |
7426079200 | objective | impersonal, unemotional language | 6 | |
7426079201 | subjective | personal, emotional language | 7 | |
7426079202 | pedantic | narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned; "teacherly" | 8 | |
7426079203 | simple | easily understood; not complex | 9 | |
7426079204 | colloquial | informal, conversational; may be regional or idiomatic | 10 | |
7426079205 | formal | "proper" language; observing every rule of grammar and usage | 11 | |
7426079206 | slang | vernacular speech, sometimes humorous | 12 | |
7426079207 | esoteric | designed for or understood by the initiated alone; requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group | 13 | |
7426079208 | denotative | literal meanings | 14 | |
7426079209 | connotative | implied meanings | 15 | |
7426079210 | trite | lacking originality or freshness | 16 | |
7426079211 | euphemistic | substituiton of a milder, vaguer word/ expression for one to be considered offensive | 17 | |
7426079212 | pretentious | attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, than actually possessed | 18 | |
7426079213 | abstruse | difficult to comprehend | 19 | |
7426079214 | obscure | not easily distinguished; not clearly expressed; mysterious | 20 | |
7426079215 | picturesque | visually attractive in an idyllic, often quaint manner | 21 | |
7426079216 | emotional | notably aroused or agitated in feeling or sensibility; appealing to or arousing emotion | 22 | |
7426079217 | sensous | appealing to the senses rather than the intellect; attractive or gratifying in a sexual manner | 23 | |
7426079218 | learned | having and conveying knowledge acquired by study | 24 | |
7426079219 | bombastic | conveying a sense of exaggerated importance through artificial or empty means | 25 | |
7426079220 | grotesque | comically or repulsively ugly or distorted | 26 | |
7426079221 | moralistic | narrowly or conventionally moral; preachy | 27 | |
7426079222 | idiomatic | an expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from the meaning of the word that makes it up--i.e. an idiom | 28 | |
7426079223 | homespun | plain; unspoiled; unsophisticated; simple | 29 | |
7426079224 | provincial | unsophisticated, narrow-minded--a byproduct of living outside the boundary of country's capital city. | 30 |
AP Literature & Composition: Diction Flashcards
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