10414068388 | Abashed | ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted | 0 | |
10414068389 | Abstruse | difficult to understand | 1 | |
10414068390 | Ambiguous | open to or having many possible meanings or interpretations | 2 | |
10414068391 | Ambivalent | uncertainty or fluctuation, asp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things | 3 | |
10414068392 | Ardent | characterized by intense feeling; passionate; intensely devoted | 4 | |
10414068393 | Audacious | extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless | 5 | |
10414068394 | Bantering | good-humored, playful conversation | 6 | |
10414068395 | Blithe | joyous, merry, or gay disposition; glad; cheerful | 7 | |
10414068396 | Capricious | flighty; led by whims; erratic | 8 | |
10414068397 | Caustic | making biting, corrosive comments | 9 | |
10414068398 | Choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered, irascible | 10 | |
10414068399 | Colloquial | characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal | 11 | |
10414068400 | Conciliatory | to overcome the distrust or animosity of; appease | 12 | |
10414068401 | Curt | rudely brief in speech or abrupt in manner/ brief; concise; terse; laconic | 13 | |
10414068402 | Derisive | characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking | 14 | |
10414068403 | Diffident | lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy | 15 | |
10414068404 | Disdainful | expressing extreme contempt | 16 | |
10414068405 | Earnest | serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous | 17 | |
10414068406 | Ebullient | overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited | 18 | |
10414068407 | Elegiac | expressing sorrow or lamentation | 19 | |
10414068408 | Erudite | characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly | 20 | |
10414068409 | Euphoric | a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania | 21 | |
10414068410 | Exhortatory | advising, urging, or cautioning earnestly; urgently admonishing | 22 | |
10414068411 | Farcical | ludicrous; absurd; mocking; humorous and highly improbable | 23 | |
10414068412 | Fervent | having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc; ardent | 24 | |
10414068413 | Flippant | frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity | 25 | |
10414068414 | Haughty | disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious | 26 | |
10414068415 | Histrionic | over the top dramatic | 27 | |
10414068416 | Impertinent | insolent; rude; uncivil | 28 | |
10414068417 | Impudent | characterized by impertinence or effrontery | 29 | |
10414068418 | Indignant | feeling characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base | 30 | |
10414068419 | Insipid | without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid | 31 | |
10414068420 | Insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting | 32 | |
10414068421 | Jocund | cheerful; merry; gay; blithe; glad | 33 | |
10414068422 | Laudatory | containing or expressing praise | 34 | |
10414068423 | Lugubrious | mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner | 35 | |
10414068424 | Mirthful | joyous; gay; jolly; arousing or provoking laughter | 36 | |
10414068425 | Nonplussed | totally puzzled, perplexed, or confused | 37 | |
10414068426 | Nostalgic | unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons | 38 | |
10414068427 | Obsequious | overly obedient and/or submissive | 39 | |
10414068428 | Ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious | 40 | |
10414068429 | Patronizing | displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner | 41 | |
10414068430 | Pedantic | ostentatious in one's learning; overly concerned with minute details or formalism's, esp. in teaching | 42 | |
10414068431 | Penitent | feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite | 43 | |
10414068432 | Placid | pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed | 44 | |
10414068433 | Pretentious | characterized by assumption of dignity or importance | 45 | |
10414068434 | Recalcitrant | resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory | 46 | |
10414068435 | Reticent | disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved; restrained | 47 | |
10414068436 | Sanguine | cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident | 48 | |
10414068437 | Sardonic | characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering | 49 | |
10414068438 | Scornful | mocking, scoffing, sneering, jeering, scathing, snide, disparaging | 50 | |
10414068439 | Stolid | not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive | 51 | |
10414068440 | Strident | making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking | 52 | |
10414068441 | Supercilious | haughtily disdainful or contemptuous | 53 | |
10414068442 | Terse | neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy; as language | 54 | |
10414068443 | Timorous | full of fear; fearful | 55 | |
10414068444 | Vexed | irritated; Annoyed | 56 | |
10414068445 | Vitriolic | very caustic; scathing | 57 | |
10414068446 | Wistful | characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning; pensive | 58 | |
10414068447 | Acerbic | harsh or severe' as of temper or expression | 59 |
AP English Language and Composition--Chi-Hi, Mr. Bowe Flashcards
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