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AP LITERATURE TONE ADJECTIVES Flashcards
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| 8302322093 | abashed | ashamed or embarrassed; disconcerted | 0 | |
| 8302322094 | abhorring | regarding with disgust and hatred | 1 | |
| 8302322095 | acerbic | sharp and forthright | 2 | |
| 8302322096 | ambivalent | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone | 3 | |
| 8302322097 | apathetic | showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm or concern | 4 | |
| 8302322098 | belligerent | hostile and aggressive | 5 | |
| 8302322099 | bemused | puzzled, confused or bewildered | 6 | |
| 8302322100 | blithe | showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper | 7 | |
| 8302322101 | brisk | sharp or abrupt | 8 | |
| 8302322102 | brusque | abrupt or offhand in speech or manner | 9 | |
| 8302322103 | choleric | bad tempered or irritable | 10 | |
| 8302322104 | clandestine | kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit | 11 | |
| 8302322105 | colloquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary | 12 | |
| 8302322106 | conciliatory | intended or likely to placate or pacify | 13 | |
| 8302322107 | contemptuous | showing contempt; scornful | 14 | |
| 8302322108 | contentious | causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial | 15 | |
| 8302322109 | derisive | expressing contempt or ridicule | 16 | |
| 8302322110 | desolate | bleak and dismal | 17 | |
| 8302322111 | despondent | in low spirits from loss of hope or courage | 18 | |
| 8302322112 | didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive | 19 | |
| 8302322113 | diffident | modest or shy because of a lack of self confidence | 20 | |
| 8302322114 | ebullient | cheerful and full of energy | 21 | |
| 8302322115 | effusive | expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner | 22 | |
| 8302322116 | elegiac | relating to or characteristic of an elegy | 23 | |
| 8302322117 | eulogostic | pertaining to or containing eulogy | 24 | |
| 8302322118 | euphoric | characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness | 25 | |
| 8302322119 | facetious | treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant | 26 | |
| 8302322120 | flippant | not showing a serious or respectful attitude | 27 | |
| 8302322121 | holier than thou | characterized by an attitude of moral superiority | 28 | |
| 8302322122 | incisive | accurate and sharply focused | 29 | |
| 8302322123 | incredulous | unwilling or unable to believe something | 30 | |
| 8302322124 | inflammatory | arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings | 31 | |
| 8302322125 | introspective | characterized by or given to introspection | 32 | |
| 8302322126 | irreverent | showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously | 33 | |
| 8302322127 | jocund | cheerful and light-hearted | 34 | |
| 8302322128 | languid | slow and relaxed | 35 | |
| 8302322129 | laudatory | expressing praise or commendation | 36 | |
| 8302322130 | lethargic | sluggish and apathetic | 37 | |
| 8302322131 | lugubrious | looking or sounding sad or dismal | 38 | |
| 8302322132 | lyrical | expressing the writer's emotions in an imaginative and beautiful way | 39 | |
| 8302322133 | pedantic | narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned | 40 | |
| 8302322134 | pithy | concise and forcefully expressive | 41 | |
| 8302322135 | plaintive | sounding sad and mournful | 42 | |
| 8302322136 | poignant | evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret | 43 | |
| 8302322137 | reticent | not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily | 44 | |
| 8302322138 | risible | such as to provoke laughter | 45 | |
| 8302322139 | sanctimonious | making a show of being morally superior to other people | 46 | |
| 8302322140 | sangine | optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation | 47 | |
| 8302322141 | sardonic | grimly mocking or cynical | 48 | |
| 8302322142 | sepulchral | gloomy, dismal | 49 | |
| 8302322067 | stolid | calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation | 50 | |
| 8302322068 | strident | presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one in an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way | 51 | |
| 8302322069 | timorous | showing or suffering from nervousness, fear or a lack of confidence | 52 | |
| 8302322070 | understated | presented or expressed in a subtle and effective way | 53 | |
| 8302322071 | venerative | ? | 54 | |
| 8302322072 | vitriolic | filled with bitter criticism or malice | 55 | |
| 8302322073 | wry | using or expressing dry, especially mocking humor | 56 |
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AP Language Vocabulary Quiz 1 Flashcards
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| 7262222067 | ape | the action of attempting an overly exact imitation and ending up with negative or laughable results | 0 | |
| 7262232546 | dun | to insist on the on the payment of a debt | 1 | |
| 7262234675 | fop | used for a man who is too concerned with his looks and his clothes | 2 | |
| 7262244718 | gad | to move out, travel, usually in a kind of aimless way | 3 | |
| 7262250651 | hex | an evil spell or to put an evil spell on someone | 4 | |
| 7262259294 | ken | the limits of your knowledge | 5 | |
| 7262262879 | pox | bad luck | 6 | |
| 7262264100 | sow | to plant a seed (literally and figuratively) | 7 | |
| 7262271000 | vex | to annoy or perplex | 8 | |
| 7262272710 | vie | compete, contend | 9 | |
| 7262275986 | amalgamation | to mix or combine into a unified whole | 10 | |
| 7262296222 | admixture | mixture, mix with | 11 | |
| 7262300763 | eclectric | made up from a variety of sources | 12 | |
| 7262305327 | catholic | comprehensive, of broad scope | 13 | |
| 7262309671 | motley | composed of a variety of sources, heterogeneous | 14 | |
| 7262315010 | corroborate | to bring in new evidence to strengthen or support an idea or argument | 15 | |
| 7262318798 | asunder | apart, into separate pieces | 16 | |
| 7262324195 | diaspora | dispersion of a people from their original homeland, language or culture | 17 | |
| 7262336867 | cleave | to split, cut, or penetrate | 18 | |
| 7262342201 | disseminate | to scatter widely, to disperse | 19 | |
| 7291378364 | aphrodisiac | foods or drugs that allegedly make men and women feel more amorous | 20 | |
| 7291388994 | chthonic | describing something coming from the underworld | 21 | |
| 7291392991 | hector | to bully or to try to force someone to do something | 22 | |
| 7291396768 | hermetic | describe something very literal, a jar so completely sealed that no air can get in | 23 | |
| 7291402185 | junoesque | a woman who is unusually tall and stately and so beautiful as to seem divine | 24 | |
| 7291407634 | mercurial | describes someone whose moods change very rapidly | 25 | |
| 7291419178 | mnemonic | refers to memory or relating to memory | 26 | |
| 7291420749 | muse | to lose yourself in your thoughts perhaps a waiting inspiration | 27 | |
| 7291425984 | oddysey | a literal journey or a journey of the intellect or spirit | 28 | |
| 7291428961 | saturnine | gloomy or even bitterly sarcastic and mocking | 29 | |
| 7291434820 | magnanimous | extremely generous and forgiving | 30 | |
| 7291438238 | parsimonious | excessively stinging | 31 | |
| 7291440304 | prodigal | extremely wasteful or extravagant | 32 | |
| 7291445989 | penurious | stingy or unwilling to spend money (poor) | 33 | |
| 7291450342 | eleemosynary | contributing to charity | 34 | |
| 7291454190 | frugale | extremely economical | 35 | |
| 7291457728 | munificent | very generous in giving | 36 | |
| 7291460113 | averiscious | greedy | 37 | |
| 7291476618 | mean | miseraly and stingy | 38 | |
| 7291476619 | indulgent | leniant | 39 | |
| 7291476620 | equine | anything bearing the characteristics of horses | 40 | |
| 7291481010 | bovine | of or related to the characteristics of cows, oxen, or buffalos, also sluggish or dull | 41 | |
| 7291487499 | lupine | ravenous or rapacious | 42 | |
| 7292813901 | ursine | bears-like, usually a physical description | 43 | |
| 7292821308 | porcine | resembling a swine or pig, either physically or behaviorally | 44 | |
| 7292827741 | simian | resembles an ape or a monkey | 45 | |
| 7292831022 | serpentine | snake-like in behavior or physically resembling a snake | 46 | |
| 7292844464 | pachyderm | thick-skinned, refers to the group of large, thick-skinned, hoofed animals | 47 | |
| 7292872613 | avian | having the characteristics of birds | 48 | |
| 7292879487 | herpetology | denotes the study of reptiles and amphibians | 49 | |
| 7292888896 | laconic | those who say little | 50 | |
| 7292893087 | taciturn | implying an even more grudging conversational style | 51 | |
| 7292899913 | lapidary | characterizes precision of wording | 52 | |
| 7292923474 | pithy | compliment for style of word use that is both brief and forceful | 53 | |
| 7292942187 | succinct | concise speaking or writing | 54 | |
| 7292944822 | terse | brief, to the point | 55 | |
| 7292958979 | garrulous | talking a great deal, taking too much, going on and on | 56 | |
| 7292981090 | prattling | to prattle, chatter meaninglessly | 57 | |
| 7292992128 | glib | speaking without enough thought, words come easily | 58 | |
| 7293004260 | prolix | pouring forth of too many words or phrases | 59 | |
| 7293009095 | maundering | you keep on going when you could have won praise for being more concise | 60 | |
| 7293031257 | indigenous | people or things that are native to a region | 61 | |
| 7293033838 | interloper | intrude where they aren't wanted | 62 | |
| 7293036637 | extraneous | coming from the outside, irrelevant or unimportant | 63 | |
| 7293050270 | inherent | stuck into | 64 | |
| 7293054266 | germane | relevant, suitable, closely connected | 65 | |
| 7293058236 | pariah | someone not accepted into his or her society, social outcast | 66 | |
| 7293077940 | endemic | native or common to or peculiar to a specific region or abstract area | 67 | |
| 7293096712 | intrinsic | inherent, inward | 68 | |
| 7293105429 | ostracize | expelling a person from a community either literally or figuratively | 69 | |
| 7293133517 | tangential | slightly touching, barely connected | 70 | |
| 7293143361 | ominous | foreshadowing of the future | 71 | |
| 7293147688 | portentous | something carrying a sign, a portent, of the threats of the future | 72 | |
| 7293164359 | inauspicious | predicts or suggests something favorable | 73 | |
| 7293519486 | imminent | something about to occur | 74 | |
| 7293523178 | impending | something threatening or not, the new arrival of the event hangs over you | 75 | |
| 7293528074 | minatory | threatening | 76 | |
| 7293530859 | presage | forewarning, an ominous feeling of a prediction | 77 | |
| 7293537408 | bode and forebode | the one-syllable word is a verb referring to an omen and the two-syllable repeats or intensifies that presentiment | 78 | |
| 7293544676 | propitiate | actions to appease or calm forces that might oppose a favorable outcome | 79 | |
| 7293550342 | harbinger | forerunner, an early warning or messenger of what's to come | 80 | |
| 7293558367 | squander | spend extravagantly | 81 | |
| 7293564182 | dissipation | a literal scattering dispersion, a specialized sense of scattering | 82 | |
| 7293569201 | disenfranchise | to lose the right to vote | 83 | |
| 7293573376 | forfeiture | the idea of a penalty, giving up something one's possession | 84 | |
| 7293579428 | denude | primarily used of trees that lose their leaves or loss of other vegetation, to make bare | 85 | |
| 7293585114 | privation | deprived of basic necessities or comforts | 86 | |
| 7293591626 | divest | to undress | 87 | |
| 7293605220 | renounce | give it up | 88 | |
| 7293608083 | elegiac | feeling of sadness many types of losses | 89 | |
| 7293612559 | bereave | to leave desolate, usually by death | 90 |
Unit #1 Vocabulary (AP Language and Composition) Flashcards
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| 7908287199 | acquisitive | (adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property SYNONYMS: greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive ANTOMYMS: altruistic, unrententive |  | 0 |
| 7908287200 | arrogate | (v.) to claim or take without right SYNONYMS: expropriate, usurp, seize, commandeer ANTONYMS: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon |  | 1 |
| 7908287201 | belabor | (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly SYNONYMS: overwork, blow out of proportion ANTONYMS: |  | 2 |
| 7908287202 | carping | (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism SYNONYMS: (adj.) nit-picking, complaining, whining ANTONYMS: (adj.) approving, uncritical |  | 3 |
| 7908287203 | coherent | (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful SYNONYMS: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive, reasonable, logical ANTONYMS: muddled, chaotic, disjointed |  | 4 |
| 7908287204 | congeal | (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid SYNONYMS: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify ANTONYMS: melt, liquidfy |  | 5 |
| 7908287205 | emulate | (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model SYNONYMS: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to ANTONYMS: |  | 6 |
| 7908287206 | encomium | (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute SYNONYMS: eulogy, commendation, accolade, tribute, testimonial ANTONYMS: |  | 7 |
| 7908287207 | eschew | (v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from SYNONYMS: forgo, steer clear of, abstain from ANTONYMS: embrace, adopt |  | 8 |
| 7908287208 | germane | (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting SYNONYMS: pertinent, apt, suitable, applicable ANTONYMS: irrelevent, extraneous, inappropriate |  | 9 |
| 7908287209 | insatiable | (adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied SYNONYMS: voracious, ravenous, unquenchable ANTONYMS: |  | 10 |
| 7908287210 | intransigent | (adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable SYNONYMS: uncompromising, unyielding, obstinate, stubborn ANTONYMS: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding |  | 11 |
| 7908287211 | invidious | (adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment SYNONYMS: unfair, discriminatory, spiteful, malicious, prejudicial, pejorative ANTONYMS: complimentary, flattering |  | 12 |
| 7908287212 | largesse | (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions SYNONYMS: bounty, kindness, generosity, charity ANTONYMS: stinginess, miserliness |  | 13 |
| 7908287213 | reconnaissance | (n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination SYNONYMS: scouting expedition, survey, exploration, inspection, observation ANTONYMS: |  | 14 |
| 7908287214 | substantiate | (v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to SYNONYMS: verify, confirm, validate, authenticate ANTONYMS: refute, disprove, invalidate |  | 15 |
| 7908287215 | taciturn | (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little SYNONYMS: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, untalkative, quiet, secretive, laconic ANTONYMS: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose |  | 16 |
| 7908287216 | temporize | (v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise SYNONYMS: hedge, dillydally, procrastinate, delay ANTONYMS: |  | 17 |
| 7908287217 | tenable | (adj.) capable of being held or defended SYNONYMS: justifiable, defensible, supportable, arguable, maintainable ANTONYMS: indefensible, unjustifiable |  | 18 |
| 7908287218 | banal | (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace SYNONYMS: stale, insipid ANTONYMS: fresh, novel, original, new |  | 19 |
AP Language Week 2 Flashcards
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| 4881466748 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order). (p. 1146) | 0 | |
| 4881466749 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences. (p. 1147) | 1 | |
| 4881466750 | Metaphor | Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as. (p. 1147) | 2 | |
| 4881466751 | Oxymoron | A paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words. (p. 1148) | 3 | |
| 4881466752 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. (p. 1148) | 4 | |
| 4881466753 | Periodic sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end. (p. 1148) | 5 | |
| 4881466754 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. (p. 1148) | 6 | |
| 4881466755 | Rhetorical question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purposes of getting an answer. (p. 1150) | 7 | |
| 4881466756 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole. (p. 1151) | 8 | |
| 4881466757 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings. (p. 1152) | 9 |
AP Language and Composition 1 Flashcards
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| 4818134198 | Allegory | The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. | 0 | |
| 4818141110 | Alliteration | The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells"). | 1 | |
| 4818145612 | Allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. | 2 | |
| 4818147573 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 3 | |
| 4818149099 | Analogy | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 4818151957 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. l truth"] | 5 | |
| 4818153364 | Antithesis | the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. | 6 | |
| 4818160434 | Aphorism | A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. | 7 | |
| 4818163129 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. | 8 | |
| 4818172697 | Atmosphere | The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. | 9 | |
| 4818179596 | Caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics. | 10 | |
| 4818183905 | Clause | A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. | 11 | |
| 4818186237 | Colloquial/colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, colloquialisms give a work a conversational, familiar tone. | 12 | |
| 4818354946 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 13 |
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