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7466580583	acquiesce	to comply	0
7466580584	admonitory	warning or cautionary; reproving	1
7466581359	aesthetic	an appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive	2
7466582096	affable, amiable, genial	agreeable, friendly	3
7466583803	aloof	detached; reserved	4
7466584059	altruistic	unselfish concern for others, good for goodness sake	5
7466585295	ambivalent	mixed feelings	6
7466585966	amorous	loving, affectionate, or passionate	7
7466586482	anachronism	not in the proper time period	8
7466586959	anomaly, atypical	a deviation	9
9903528219	antecedent, precursor	forerunner; a preceding event	10
9903538938	antithesis, antithetical, antipodal	direct opposite	11
9903539947	apathetic	indifferent, a lack of interest or concern	12
9903543149	audacious	daring in a defiant manner	13
9903544428	auspicious, propitious	very favorable	14
9903545285	austere	bare, not ornate	15
9903546466	autonomous	independent	16
9903547786	bane	a source of harm	17
9903548503	belie	give a false impression	18
9903549589	belligerent	warlike; tending toward conflict	19
9903551048	blasé	unimpressed or indifferent (because one is so familiar with it)	20
9903553162	bombastic	important-sounding, yet with very little substance	21
9903554565	boon	a timely benefit	22
9903555867	boorish	impolite; rough or coarse	23
9903556779	cacophony	dissonant, conflicting, unpleasant, and overwhelming multitude of sounds	24
9903557854	candor	honest, blunt, frank	25
9903559400	clandestine, surreptitious	secretive; not aboveboard; covert	26
9903560023	colloquial	informal, ordinary language	27
9903561667	conjecture, supposition	an inference	28
9903562595	connote	to imply or suggest another meaning	29
9903562596	death, paucity	a scarcity or shortage	30
9903563881	denote	to mean; ton indicate	31
9903564783	derisive	mocking contempt; ridicule	32
9903564795	didactic	intended to teach	33
9903566150	diffident	lacking self-confidence	34
9903567392	docile	peaceful, submissive	35
9903567949	elucidate	make clear through explanation	36
9903568991	enigmatic, inscrutable	mysterious, baffling	37
9903572035	equivocation	unclear, misleading language to conceal truth	38
9903573518	evince	be evidence of; reveal the presence of	39
9903574421	evocative	creating an imaginative sense, image, or feeling	40
9903576768	extrapolate	form an opinion from the known facts	41
9903581345	facetious, flippant	humor at a serious event; making light of a serious matter	42
9903582560	fawning	exuding flattery and affection	43
9903582561	foreboding	fearful sense of something bad happening	44
9903583442	fortitude	strength of mind	45
9903584259	garish	obnoxiously bright and showy	46
9903585204	glib	smooth-talking but insincere	47
9903587323	grovel	act servant-like in order to obtain favor; to lie facedown	48
9903589089	impasse	failure to reach an agreement	49
9903591896	impetuous	acting quickly without thought or care	50
9903592757	incorrigible	not able to be corrected	51
9903593859	incredulous	unable to believe	52
9903595667	indigenous, endemic	native to an area	53
9903595668	indignant	angry or annoyed	54
9903596943	insidious	subtly proceeding, yet harmful	55
9903598014	insolent	rude, disrespectful	56
9903599235	inundate	flood	57
9903599236	jargon	the vocabulary of a certain profession, difficult for the layman to understand	58
9903600752	juxtapose	place together for comparing/contrasting purposes	59
9903609655	lambast(e)	criticize harshly	60
9903610605	lampoon	publicly criticize and ridicule	61
9903611506	languid	a relaxed posture or manner, avoiding exertion	62
9903612840	lionize	give great public attention to	63
9903613443	livid	furiously angry	64
9903613444	meek	mild-mannered; shy and quiet	65
9903617009	melancholy	pensive sadness, often without cause	66
9903617959	mitigate, mollify, assuage, alleviate	to ease; relive; lessen (pacify)	67
9903619108	morose, despondent	very depressed	68
9903620300	nostalgia	a sentimental longing for the past	69
9903623523	obliquely	indirectly	70
9903624305	obsolete, archaic, antiquated	no longer in use	71
9903625259	odious	repulsive	72
9903625962	pandemic	widespread epidemic	73
9903627686	paradox	a seeming contradiction that expresses a truth	74
9903628638	patronize	treat someone with a feeling of superiority	75
9903629973	pedantic	ostentatious with knowledge	76
9903629974	peevish	easily irritated by trivial things	77
9903631574	pensive	deep reflection; serious thought	78
9903632581	perturb	make anxious or unsettled	79
9903633814	petulant	childish; sulking	80
9903641826	plausible	believable	81
9903641827	pragmatic	practical, sensible	82
9903644808	prattle	to babble incessantly	83
9903646644	presumptuous	overbearin; impertinently bold	84
9903647364	prototype	an original model	85
9903647365	prudent	careful, cautious	86
9903648283	querulous	complaining in a petulant manner	87
9903649413	recalcitrant, obdurate	very stubborn, defiant	88
9903649414	ribald	irreverently referring to sexual things	89
9903653583	sanctimonious	acting as if morally superior to others	90
9903654484	sarcastic, sardonic, snide	derisive mocking comments	91
9903655537	solicitous	showing interest or concern	92
9903658124	supercilious	behaving or looking as if superior to others	93
9903660226	trite, hackneyed, pedestrian, platitudinous, banal, insipid	commonplace	94
9903661268	ubiquitous, prevalent	everywhere; widespread	95
9903661269	unorthodox	unconventional, not ordinary or typical	96
9903664416	upbraid, reproach, castigate	to scold or rebuke	97
9903664417	voracious	wanting or devouring great quantities	98
9903665347	wry, droll	dry humor	99

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7416004800	Geography	The study of people, their environment, and their resources	0
7416006398	Specific location	Uses longitude and latitude.	1
7416008444	Longitude	Runs north and south. They also tell us time.	2
7416022560	Relative	Location in relation to something	3
7416012168	Latitude	The lines run east and west. It also tells us climate.	4
7416023461	Movement	The transfer of goods, people, and ideas from one area to another.	5
7416030593	Migration	The movement of people from one place to the other.	6
7416032179	Diffusion	Is the spread of ideas.	7
7416033013	Import	Receiving goods	8
7416033743	Export	Sending out goods	9
7416037347	Topography	The physical features of an area.	10
7416044580	Culture	All elements that make up a people's way of life.	11
7416047289	Political System	Governments that provide organization, leadership, and laws.	12
7416053703	Democracy	Government by the people	13
7416054538	Dictatorship	Government by one person	14
7416055815	Economic System	How people get what they need to survive.	15
7416056429	Traditional	People produce most of what they need to survive.	16
7416057273	Capitalism	Economic system in which private owners decide what is produced.	17
7416060693	Education	How cultures teach it's history and beliefs.	18
7416064504	Oral Tradition	By telling stories or through word and mouth	19
7416066244	Griot	An African storyteller	20
7416066978	Language	Writing allowed histories to be passed down	21
7416068506	Religion	They are beliefs that explain the unexplainable. It also gives meaning and purpose to life.	22
7416073543	Polytheistic	The belief in more then one God	23
7416075077	Monotheistic	The belief in one God	24
7416076286	Social Organizations	Groups formed in order to live and work together	25
7416077460	Family	The most important social unit.	26
7416083826	Nuclear Family unit	Mom, Dad, and kids	27
7416084842	Extended Family unit	Mom, Dad, grandparents, cousins, kids, etc.	28
7416089175	Ideas	Customs and traditions specific to a culture.	29
7416096786	New Technology	Cause for Cultural change	30
7416098963	Changing Environment	Cause for Cultural change	31
7416098964	New Ideas	Cause for Cultural change	32
7416099642	Cultural Diffusion	Cause for Cultural change	33
7416100113	Racism	The belief one racial group is superior to another.	34
7416103577	Ethnocentricism	Judging other cultures by standards of your own.	35
7416112466	Omnivores	A reason why early man was successful	36
7416119099	Allowed humans to live in different climates and settings	Why being an omnivore was a reason why early man was successful	37
7416124912	Development of speech and knowledge	A reason why early man was successful	38
7416125236	Having thumbs/hands	A reason why early man was successful	39
7416125804	Ability to develop technology	A reason why early man was successful	40
7416126739	Having a high reproduction rate	A reason why early man was successful	41
7416127352	Hunted and gathered (Nomadic)	A characteristic of the Paleolithic Man	42
7416129902	Developed fire (Were able to move to colder climates)	A characteristic of the Paleolithic Man	43
7416132478	Made tools of stone and wood	A characteristic of the Paleolithic Man	44
7416134198	Lived in groups of around 40	A characteristic of the Paleolithic Man	45
7416134992	Developed speech and religion	A characteristic of the Paleolithic Man	46
7416136952	Men and Women were equal because they shared gathering and food together	A characteristic of the Paleolithic Man	47
7416139163	Cave Paintings (Used to express themselves	A characteristic of the Paleolithic Man	48
7416141342	Population growth	The greatest achievement of the Old Stone Age	49
7416143483	End of Ice Age	Loss of big animals to hunt which resulted in the Neolithic Age.	50
7416148972	First Farmers	Characteristic of the Neolithic Age	51
7416150696	Domestication	To tame for one's own use	52
7416151776	Middle East	Fertile Cresent	53
7416153667	What developed in the Middle East?	Domestication	54
7416156744	What did they grow?	Barley and wheat	55
7416157446	What did they raise?	Pigs, goats, sheep, and cattle	56
7416160522	What did domestication result in?	Permanent housing	57

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AP Literature and Composition Set 1 Flashcards

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7164148791	Interpretive Literature	Literature written to broaden and deepen and "shapen" our awareness of life and the human condition.	0
7164148792	Escape Literature	Literature written purely for entertainment. [Also formula fiction]	1
7164148793	Didactic	Literature with the primary purpose to teach or preach.	2
7164148794	Allegory	A narration or description which has a second meaning beneath the surface one. Usually there exists a one-to-one correspondence between its details and a set of ulterior meanings.	3
7164148795	Farce	A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in farfetched, silly situations, such as Cervantes' Don Quixote.	4
7164148796	Romance	Historically, a medieval verse narrative chronicling the adventures of a brave knight or other hero who must overcome great danger for love of a noble lady or high ideal.	5
7164148797	Epic	A long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.	6
7164148798	Mock Epic	A comic narrative poem that parodies the epic by treating a trivial subject in a lofty, grand manner, such as Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. [The modern parody, or the imitation of a work of literature, art, music for amusement or instruction, falls into this category.]	7
7164148799	Myth	An anonymous traditional story (supposedly based on historical events) that usually serves to explain a belief, custom, or mysterious natural phenomenon.	8
7164148800	Novel	A long fictional-prose narrative, usually of more than fifty thousand words.	9
7164148801	Autobiography	An account of a person's own life.	10
7164148802	Biography	An account of a person's life written or told by another person.	11
7164148803	Parable	A short, allegorical story that teaches a moral or religious lesson about life.	12
7164148804	Fable	A very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, of a practical lesson about life.	13
7164148805	Tall Tale	Sometimes related to a myth, it is an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable, but serves as possible explanation, such as Pacos Bill and why Texas is known as the "Lone Star" state.	14

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AP Language Vocab List 3 Flashcards

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7425253142	Accede	(verb) to agree	0
7425255518	Blandish	(verb) to coax by using flattery	1
7425259449	Complacency	(noun) self-satisfied ignorance of danger	2
7425263195	Destitute	(adjective) impoverished, utterly lacking	3
7425266047	Diaphanous	(adjective) light, airy, transparent	4
7425267960	Exigent	(adjective) urgent, critical	5
7425272678	Expiate	(verb) to make amends for, atone	6
7425274629	Indomitable	(adjective) not capable of being conquered	7
7425276490	Inexorable	(adjective) incapable of being persuaded or placated	8
7425279668	Nascent	(adjective) in the process of being born or coming into existence	9
7425282122	Neophyte	(noun) someone who is young or inexperienced	10
7425283801	Prowess	(noun) extraordinary ability	11
7425285871	Pugnacious	(adjective) quarrelsome, combative	12
7425287564	Tenuous	(adjective) having little substance or strength	13
7425291816	Toady	(noun) one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors.	14

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9802565946	Syllogism	In its basic form, this is a three-part argument construction in which two premises lend to the truth	0
9802565947	Abstract Idea	Refers to ideas not connected or concerned with worldly things.	1
9802565948	Abstraction	a term applied to ideas that are philosophical and emotional, not concrete or tangible, yet the idea comes from experience	2
9802565949	Adjective Modifying	the possessive adjective refers to the words that modify nouns by showing a sense of possession of, or belonging to, a person or thing.	3
9802565950	Allegorical	containing allegory	4
9802565951	Allegory	A work in which the characters and their actions represent general truths about human conduct. The characters often represent abstract concepts such as faith, innocence, or evil.	5
9802565952	Allusion	A reference to a well-known fictional, mythological, or historical person, place, or event, outside the story, suggests similarities to comparable circumstances in another time or place	6
9802565953	Biblical Allusion	a reference within a literary work to a story, idea, or event that is related in the Bible or other biblical writings	7
9802565954	Literary Allusion	a reference to a work of literary merit outside the work	8
9802565955	Mythological Allusion	referencing to a myth, it does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers	9
9802565956	Cultural Allusion	a reference to a mainstream culture that remains outside of the work	10
9802565957	Visual Imagery	imagery that appeals to the sense of sight	11
9802565958	Tactile Imagery	imagery that appeals to kinesthetics or touch	12
9802565959	Auditory Imagery	imagery that appeals to the sense of hearing	13
9802565960	Gustatory Imagery	imagery that appeals to the sense of taste	14
9802565961	Olfactory Imagery	imagery that appeals to the sense of smell	15
9802565962	Ambiguity	the quality of being open to more than one interpretation	16
9802565963	Analogy	comparison made between two things to show how they are alike	17
9802565964	Analysis	detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation.	18
9802565965	Anecdote	a short narrative within a work of literature that underlines a deeper meaning	19
9802565966	Antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to	20
9802565967	Anticlimax	a disappointing end to an exciting series of events	21
9802565968	Antithesis	balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure highlighting the difference between two ideas and adding interest	22
9802565969	Apology	a formal attempt to justify or defend one's actions while implying regret for them	23
9802565970	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality or idea	24
9802565971	Apostrophic Speech	an arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings	25
9802565972	Appositive	a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it Ex. the bird, a canary, is flying through the sky	26
9802565973	Assert	state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully	27
9802565974	Assertion	confident and forceful statement of fact or belief	28
9802565975	Ballad Meter	four-line stanzas usually rhyming abcd with the first and third lines carrying four accented syllables and the second and fourth carrying three	29
9802565976	Blank Verse	Verse without rhyme	30
9802565977	Capitalization	Writing with capital letters. This can sometimes be used to personify certain forces such as "Muse". It gives more emphasis or meaning to a word	31
9802565978	Categorical Assertion	all or some of the members of one category are included in another	32
9802565979	Cause-and-effect analysis	A method leading to the listing of all possible reasons and outcomes associated with a particular problem or situation. It is a group process direct at uncovering possible or probable causal factors and their manifestation	33
9802565980	Character	as any person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work. There are many types of characters that exist in literature, each with its own development and function	34
9802565981	Circular reasoning	a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. The components of a circular argument are often logically valid because if the premises are true, the conclusion must be true.	35
9802565982	Classification and Comparison	method of paragraph or essay development in which a writer arranges people, objects, or ideas with shared characteristics into classes or groups	36
9802565983	Colloquial	used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary	37
9802565984	Comical	a type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having a cheerful ending	38
9802565985	Compare	estimate, measure, or note the similarity between two or more things	39
9802565986	Complex Sentence	a sentence containing mutiple subordinate clause or clauses	40
9802565987	Complex Structure	consisting of two parts, at least one of which is a bound form, as childish, which consists of the word child and the bound form -ish.	41
9802565988	Conclusive Logic	Pertaining to conclusion	42
9802565989	Concrete evidence	appears in different categories of essays and theses, in the form of paraphrase and quotations. It is presented to persuade readers, and used with powerful arguments in the texts or essays	43
9802565990	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	44
9802565991	Contradiction	a combination of statements, ideas, or features of a situation that are opposed to one another.	45
9802565992	Contrast	The state of being strikingly different from something else or noting differences between two or more things	46
9802565993	Conventional Metrical Patterns	adheres to a definite verse structure or set of characteristics,the metrical and rhyme patterns associated with traditional poems are typically absent from contemporary poetry	47
9802565994	Counterargument	an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument	48
9802565995	Couplet	two lines of verse, usually in the same meter joined by rhyme	49

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6618366181	Backward reconstruction	the tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants backward toward the original language	0
6618370592	Cognate	a word that has the same linguistic derivation as another word	1
6618374888	Conquest theory	one major theory of how Proto-Indo-European diffused into Europe. Early speakers spread westward on horseback	2
6618388430	Creole language	a language that began as a pidgin but was later adopted as the mother tongue	3
6618412098	dialect chains	a set of contiguous dialects in which the dialects nearest to each other are most closely related	4
6618420494	Global language	the language use most commonly around the world	5
6618423335	isogloss	a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs	6
6618428607	language	a set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication	7
6618437855	language convergence	the collapsing of two languages into one resulting from the consistent spatial interactions of peoples with different languages	8
6618444238	language family	group of languages with a shared but fairly distant origin	9
6618449455	lingua franca	a language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes of trade and commerce	10
6618454490	monolingual states	countries in which only one language is spoken	11
6618460203	multilingual states	countries in which more than one language is spoken	12
6618463615	mutual intelligilbility	the ability of two people to understand each other when speaking	13
6618466177	official language	in multilingual countries the language selected to promote internal cohesion and of the government	14
6618473455	pidgin language	when parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary	15
6618479861	Standard language	the variant of a language that is published widely distributed and purposely taught	16
6618489109	subfamilies	divisions within a language family where the commonalities are more definite and the origin is more recent	17
6618495441	toponym	place name	18
6618499592	dialects	variants of a standard language along regional or ethnic lines	19
6618513519	Proto-Indo-European	ancestral Indo-European language that gave rise to modern languages	20
6618516041	Proto-Eurasiatic	earlier than Proto-Indo-European, speakers spread out and lost contact 15,000 years ago and variants emerged	21
6618516042	Language divergence	when spatial interaction among speakers of a language breaks down and the fragments turn into dialects and then discrete tongues	22
6618519898	extinct languages	languages that end when descendants perish or abandon the language	23
6618519899	romance languages	in areas of Europe that were controlled by the Roman Empire, local languages mixed with Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Portuguese	24
6618521803	Germanic languages	expansion of peoples out of northern Europe to the west and south, English, German, Norwegian and Swedish	25
6618521804	Slavic Languages	Slavic people migrated from modern Ukraine to eastern Europe, Russian, Polish,Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian	26
6618523921	place	an area with a unique location and constitutes a reflection of human activities, ideas and creations	27
6639476946	Renfrew Model	All major language families started at fertile crescent, Asia went east, Arabic south and European North	28
6639488022	dispersal hypothesis	spread of language moved east first towards Iran and looped back to europe	29
6639498143	agriculture theory	spread was related to food and shows diffusion the same time as farming diffused	30

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