AP English Review

266483519	redress	rectify
266483520	spurious	false, illegitimate
266483521	palliate	lessen severity of
266483522	paucity	scarcity
266483523	phlegmatic	calm, sluggish
266483524	platitude	cliche
266483525	profligate	dissolute
266483526	laconic	concise, speaking little
266483527	largess	generosity
266483528	levity	frivolity
266483529	lugubrious	gloomy
266483530	megalomania	obsession with power, ego
266483531	nascent	emerging
266483532	nebulous	vague, hazy
266483533	nefarious	infamous, wicked
266483534	furtive	secretive
266483535	germane	relevant
266483536	iconoclast	one who attacks convention
266483537	idyllic	simple, rustic
266483538	inchoate	vague, not thought out
266483539	duplicity	deceptiveness
266483540	erudite	learned
266483541	fatuous	foolish, delusional
266483542	fortuitous	happening by chance, luck
266483543	fractious	unruly, peevish
266483544	complicity	involvement as an accomplice
266483545	corpulent	fat
266483546	culpable	blameworthy
266483547	cursory	performed with haste
266483548	debacle	disaster
266483549	desultory	random, off the cuff
266483550	doleful	sad
266483551	au courant	up-to-date, in the loop
266483552	austere	stern, somber, ascetic
266483553	banal	trite, ordinary, lacking style
266483554	cacophony	clashing, dissonant sound
266483555	canard	rumor
266483556	candor	openness, honesty
266483557	chagrin	humiliation, embarassment
266483558	cogent	clear-headed, convincing
266483559	commodious	spacious, roomy
266483560	abstemious	moderate, temperate, non-indulgent
266483561	accost	confront
266483562	acrimonious	bitter, hostile, and angry
266483563	adamant	determined or persistent
266483564	adroit	skilled, competent
266483565	anathema	something hated, cursed or forbidden
266483566	antipathy	ill will, ill feelings
266483567	antithesis	opposite
266483568	ascetic	self-denying in order to achieve self-discipline
266483569	ad hominem attack	attack the person, not the issue
266483570	allusion	a reference to something in the past; some suggestion or connection is often implied
266483571	argument from ignorance	to assert a proposition is true because it has not been proven false
266483572	bandwagon appeal	everyone believes it, so it must be true
266483573	false analogy	faulty comparison of two things for effect
266483574	poisoning the well	prejudicing an audience against a source ahead of time
266483575	red herring	a train of thought that strays from the issue at hand
266483576	straw man	a caricature or exaggerated representation of something that someone can thus discredit in an argument
266483577	anecdotal evidence	argument from personal observation. frequently unrealiable and over-generalized
266483578	euphemism	the use of understatement, either for ironic effect or to "sugarcoat" something
266483579	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject he is dealing with
266483580	arguing by analogy	T.S. Eliot: If the analogy breaks down, the conclusion the arguer is trying to draw from the analogy just doesn't follow.
266483581	rhetorical question	a question not meant to be answered but nevertheless designed to advance the speaker's case
266483582	parody	a satiric imitation meant to comment on or trivialize something
266483583	diction	word choice: the word choice an author makes--the order, rhythm, placement, etc.--can help or inhibit his effect
266483584	syntax	sentence structure. writers may vary sentence structure for effect, or they may pay careful attention to the structure and rhythm of a sentence for its effect
266483585	innuendo	an indirect, suggestive remark
266483586	hyperbole	an exaggeration, for effect or drawing attention
266483587	irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning:
266483588	paradox	a seeming contradiction that contains a profound truth
266483589	inference	a conclusion
266483590	ethos	the credibility of a source
266483591	logos	logical argument
266483592	pathos	emotional appeal in an argument
266483593	impressionistic writing	recording one's personal impression of an event
266483594	melodrama	an obvious or exaggerated appeal to emotion
266483595	apologist	an entrenched defender of a certain idea or position
266483596	invective	violent denunciation or reproach
266483597	anaphora	the repitition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences. it is to words what alliteration is to sounds. emotional effect
266483598	epistrophe	the repition of a word or phrase at the end of successive phrases or sentences.
266483599	chiasmus	a balanced, two-part structure in which the terms of the first half are reversed in the second half
266483600	asyndeton (no glue)	the absence of normal conjunctions. the effect is often, but not always, a sense of urgency.
266483601	polysyndeton (much glue)	the presence of more conjunctions than normal. the effect is usually to lengthen a series, perhaps to make it sound like more than it actually is.
266483602	tricolon	a series of three coordinate items in which the greatest or most important is at the end.
266483603	tautology	repitition
266483604	parallelism	a balance of two or more similar words, phrases, or clauses