3747995919 | Abject | (adj.) Degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved | 0 | |
3748005271 | Complicity | (n.) Involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice | 1 | |
3748007399 | Effigy | (n.) A crude image of a despised person | 2 | |
3748008817 | Inane | (adj.) Silly, empty of meaning or value | 3 | |
3748010899 | Indubitable | (adj.) Certain, not to be doubted or denied | 4 | |
3748012836 | Neophyte | (n.) A new convert, beginner, novice | 5 | |
3748014096 | Surveillance | (n.) A watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation | 6 | |
3748014097 | Sylvan | (adj.) Pertaining to or characteristic or forest; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody | 7 | |
3748015526 | Testy | (adj.) Easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation | 8 | |
3748020518 | Acquisitive | (Adj.) Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property | 9 | |
3748022438 | Belabor | (V.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly | 10 | |
3748024633 | Coherent | (Adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful | 11 | |
3748026200 | Congeal | (V.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid | 12 | |
3748026211 | Emulate | (V.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model | 13 | |
3748032026 | Eschew | (V.) to avoid, shun, keep away from | 14 | |
3748033228 | Germane | (Adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | 15 | |
3748040464 | accost | (v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging way | 16 | |
3748040465 | avid | (adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | 17 | |
3748042235 | celerity | (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | 18 | |
3748043605 | incendiary | (adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife | 19 | |
3748045418 | overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | 20 | |
3748047496 | talisman | (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, and amulet, fetish | 21 | |
3748048524 | undulate | (v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | 22 | |
3748056634 | Articulate | (v.) to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; (adj.) expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed | 23 | |
3748058245 | Decry | (v.) to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate | 24 | |
3748060055 | Distraught | (adj.) very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict | 25 | |
3748061335 | Exhume | (v.) to remove from a grave; to bring to light | 26 | |
3748062573 | Nefarious | (adj.) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards | 27 | |
3748064444 | Piquant | (adj.) stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative | 28 | |
3748065789 | Verbiage | (n.) language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression | 29 | |
3748067454 | Atrophy | (n.) the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v.) to waste away | 30 | |
3748069842 | Bastion | (n.) a fortified place, stronghold | 31 | |
3748071050 | Disarray | (n.) disorder, confusion; (v.) to throw into disorder | 32 | |
3748071051 | Flotsam | (n.) floating debris; homeless; impoverished people | 33 | |
3748073502 | Frenetic | (adj.) frenzied, highly agitated | 34 | |
3748074628 | Glean | (v.) to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers | 35 | |
3748075904 | Incarcerate | (v.) to imprison, confine, jail | 36 | |
3748077730 | Incumbent | (adj.) obligatory, required; (n.) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of | 37 | |
3748077731 | Jocular | (adj.) humorous, jesting, jolly, joking | 38 | |
3748079747 | Ludicrous | (adj.) ridiculous, laughable, absurd | 39 | |
3748081427 | Nettle | (n.) a prickly or stinging plant; (v.) to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severely | 40 | |
3748081439 | Pusillanimous | (adj.) contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited | 41 | |
3748083861 | Recumbent | (adj.) in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting | 42 | |
3748083862 | Strategem | (n.) a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end | 43 | |
3748089628 | Acuity | (n.) sharpness (particularly of the kind or senses | 44 | |
3748089629 | Depraved | (adj.) marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles | 45 | |
3748091572 | Enervate | (v.) to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring | 46 | |
3748092986 | Fecund | (adj.) fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive | 47 | |
3748094226 | Fiat | (n.) an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness | 48 | |
3748095587 | Hallow | (v.) to set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere | 49 | |
3748096921 | Mundane | (adj.) earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary | 50 | |
3748096922 | Penchant | (n.) A strong attraction or inclination | 51 | |
3748099104 | Reputed | (Adj.) according to reputation or general belief; Having widespread acceptance and good reputation; (part.) alleged | 52 | |
3748100172 | Ubiquitous | (adj.) present or existing everywhere | 53 |
AP Literature Vocab Midterm Flashcards
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