Cumulative AP Lang Vocab 2 Flashcards

153146116	lament	(n) an expression of grief, especially a vivid or passionate one	0
153146117	languish	(v) -to droop; take on a melancholy air -to pine -to suffer neglect either way, you are miserable	1
153146118	lascivious	(adj) lewd and lustful, describes anything intended to arouse lustful thoughts or sexual desires	2
153146119	lax	(adj) showing a lack of interest in doing something either well or on time; negligent, lacking in strict observance	3
153146120	lay	(adj) applicable to one who is not a member, or connected with, a particular profession, especially law or medicine, but it can apply in its negative sense to any profession	4
153146121	lethargic	(adj) sluggish, listless, without pep or energy	5
153146122	leviathan	(n) a monster, any thing of wondrous size or vast power	6
153146123	linchpin	(n) characterizes anybody or anything deemed vital to hold a situation together	7
153146124	limpid	(adj) clear, express linguistic clarity, like lucid -also means serene, untorubled	8
153146125	lissome, lossom	(adj) supple, lithe, agile	9
153146126	litany	(n) a form of prayer consisting of a series of supplications to God, each followed by the same response from the worshipers. It has come to be applied to any monotonously repetitious recital	10
153146127	lithe	pliant, supple	11
153146128	litigious	(adj) always inclined to sue, aching for a lawsuit; argumentative, eager to pick a fight	12
153146129	lurid	(adj) -gruesome, shockingly vivid -sensational -can be used to describe something with a fiery flow, garishly red	13
153146130	macrocosm	(n) the great world around us, the entire universe, the whole of something, the whole world in itself	14
153328137	microcosm	(n) a miniature world, anything seen as a miniature sample of a whole word, as resembling something else on a small scale	15
153328138	maladroit	(adj) awkward, bungling,	16
153328139	malaise	(n) describes a general feeling of uneasiness, physical or mental or both	17
153328140	malleable	(adj) impressionable; workable, shapable	18
153328141	manque	(adj) unfulfilled, fallen short	19
153328142	martinet	(n) a strict disciplinarian, one who demands obedience without question, often applied in military circles	20
153328143	masticate	(v) to chew, to reduce to a pulp	21
153328144	matriculate	(v) to enroll	22
153328145	maw	(n) a mouth, jaws, throat, gullet. any great opening resembling an animal's jaws	23
153328146	mendacious	(adj) false, lying, untruthful	24
153328147	mendicant	(n) beggar	25
153400992	mercurial	(adj) -lively and sprightly -changeable. fickle. erratic	26
153400993	meretricious	(adj) tawdry and insincere, though showily attractive, "like a prostitute"..LOLZ; dishonest. cheap, flashy allure	27
153400994	metaphor	(n) a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used not literally. but in a way that suggests a comparison of the thing described with something else	28
153402399	metaphysics	(n) to characterize an argument or theory as too far-fetched and abstruse to prove the point contended for. Is not supported by facts and probabilities	29
153402400	mete	(v) to distribute or allot out something	30
153402401	miasma	(n) noxious air or unwholesome exhalations, used to describe a pervasive atmosphere that tends to harm or corrupt	31
153497887	mien	(n) bearing, air, especially as an indication of a person's character or mood	32
153497888	misanthrope	(n) people hater, a person who dislikes just about everybody.	33
153497889	misapprehension	mistake	34
153497890	misappropriate	(v) to take or apply (property or funds) dishonestly, especially for one's own use, to steal	35
153497891	miscreant	(n) villain (adj) villainous	36
153497892	misnomer	(n) a wrong name of something, or the use of a wrong name	37
153497893	modicum	(n) a bit, a small quantity (usually used in a negative sense)	38
153497894	molt	(v) to shed the out covering	39
153497895	morass	(n) a marsh or bog, anything that bogs you down	40
153497896	mordant	(adj) sarcastic, biting	41
153497897	moribund	(adj) approaching death; depicts something that is on the verge of collapsing, going fast, on the way out	42
153497898	motif	(n) the them of a work of art, usually recurring	43
153497899	munificent	(adj) describes anything or anyone extremely generous, bountiful, lavish	44
153497900	nadir	(n) the lowest point	45
153497901	nascent	(adj) just beginning to exist	46
153497902	nebulous	(adj) hazy, indistinct, foggy	47
153497903	nefarious	(adj) wicked, execrable	48
153497904	nemesis	(n) downfall or undoing. Can also denote someone's unbeatable rival	49
153497905	nihilism	(n) a philosophy that preaches the total rejection of all restraint, all laws, all social and political institutions	50
153587758	nirvana	(n) perfect bliss, the state of freedom from all the pain and suffering of the world; state attained through the extinction of one's personal passions and delusions	51
153587759	nomenclature	(n) a system of names such as those used in a particular branch of science, philosophy, art, ect.	52
153587760	non sequitur	(n) it does not follow. describing an unwarranted, unsupported conclusion, a statement made as though logically connected with what has gone before. but which in reality has nothing to do with it	53
153587761	nostrum	(n) a quack medicine, a panacea, a pet scheme recommended for the cure of the ills of the world	54
153587762	noxious	(adj) harmful, physically or morally	55
153587763	obeisance	(n) homage, deep respect. to make a gesture of deep respect	56
153587764	obfuscate	(v) to make something obscure, to becloud it	57
153587765	oblivion	(n) active: describing the state of forgetting. having forgotten, being unaware. oblivious. unmindful passive: describing the state of being forgotten	58
153587766	obloquy	(n) disgrace and bad repute resulting from public discredit or denunciation; censure	59
153587767	obtrude	(v) to force something or oneself on others	60
153587768	obtrusive	(adj) describes people who obtrude themselves and their opinions on others, disagreeably noticeable	61
153587769	obtuse	(adj) slow-witted, insensitive, thick-skinned, and thick-headed, does not get the point	62
153587770	obviate	(v) to make something unecessary, to make it possible to do without; often followed by the necessity of	63
153587771	occlude	(v) to close. to stop up	64
153587772	odious	(adj) hateful	65
153587773	omniscient	(adj) describes people who know everything, have an amazingly wide fund of information	66
153587774	omnivorous	(adj) eat both meat and plants; an omnivorous reader is one who reads just about anything that comes his way	67
153587775	onerous	(adj) burdensome	68
153587776	onomatopoetic	(adj) describes words that sound like what they mean	69
153587777	onomatopoeia	(adj) describes the creation of a word formed from sounds like what they mean	70
153587778	opprobrium	(n) describes disgrace or infamy suffered as a result of shameful conduct	71
154024975	ordure	(n) dung, excrement; by extension. anything disgusting or degrading	72
154024976	ostracize	(v) to exclude someone from society or companionship, often the fate of those convicted of a heinous crime	73
154024977	otiose	(adj) idle; at leisure; futile, useless	74
154024978	paean	(n) a song of praise, any lavish expression of praise or joy	75
154024979	palliative	(n) relieves without curing, not really doing a good job	76
154024980	panache	(n) verve, flair, sytle, dash. flamboyance, to have an air about you	77
154024981	panegyric	(n) a speech or article in praise of someone or something	78
154024982	panoply	(n)complete magnificent outfit, a splendid display, describes any glittering covering	79
154024983	pantheon	(n) describes a preeminent group, those most highly esteemed. Inlcudes any public building housing the remains of a nation's ullustrious heroes. or the illustrious group itself	80
154024984	paradox	(n) any self-contradictory statement or contradiction	81
154024985	pariah	(n) outcast, a person rejected by society or his immediate circle. They suffer the sting of social ostracism	82
154073828	parlous	(adj) rather self-conscious literary word. appears to be a substitute for perilous-involving or full of grave risk; hazordous	83
154073829	parochial	(adj) describes people and outlooks that are narrow, restricted.	84
154073830	paroxysm	(n) a violent outburst	85
154073831	pastoral	(adj) rustic, bucolic, evokes the idyllic charm and serenity of a shepherd's life	86
154073832	patent	(adj) obvious, exposed to view	87
154073833	pathological	(adj) caused by disease, covers any condition caused by disease, whether of mind or body	88
154073834	pathos	(n) the quality in human experience or any art form that evokes compassion	89
154073835	patrician	(n) an aristocrat (adj) aristocratic, highborn, characteristic of aristocrats	90
154073836	paucity	(n) scarcity, poor supply	91
154073837	pedant	(n) a person who shows off his learning, a nitpicker who insists on strict adherence to formal rules and overemphasizes minor details	92
154073838	pedestrian	(adj) commonplace, dull, unimaginative	93
154073839	pejorative	(adj) disparaging, belittling (n) covers any word or expression that disparages, belittles, talks down, puts down, badmouths someone or something	94
154073840	penchant	(n) an inclination, strong liking	95
154073841	penultimate	(adj) next to last	96
154073842	perfidious	(adj) faithless, disloyal, treacherous	97
154073843	perfunctory	(adj) describes anything done routinely, as a duty, without interest or enthusiasm	98
154073844	peripatetic	(adj) people who travel about from place to place	99
154073845	peripheral	(adj) describes anything touching upon the incidental rather than the essential aspects of a subject	100
154073846	pernicious	(adj) very injurious	101
154073847	perspicacious	(adj) discerning, gifted with keen insight	102
154073848	peruse	(v) to read through something carefully. to go over every word of it	103
154073849	pervasive	(adj) spreading about, like an odor you can't get away from or dampness that seeps into every part of your house or your bones	104
154084965	petulant	(adj) unjustifiably impatient, prone to irritation over trifles, easily annoyed	105
154084966	philistine	(n)(adj) a lowbrow. one who not only lacks culture and is smugly indifferent to it, but tends to attack it.	106
154084967	placebo	(n) name given to a substance prescribed by a doctor as though it were medicine, which in fact ahs no medicinal effect, and is given either for its psychological effect in humoring a patient, or in controlled experiment to test a real medicine	107
154084968	placid	(adj) calm, serene, tranquil	108
154084969	plaintive	(adj) expresses sorrow, grief, or melancholy, or sounds sorrowful	109
154084970	plangent	(adj) describes anything that resounds in a mournful way	110
154084971	platitude	(n) a trite remark	111
154133642	ponderous	(adj) 1. can apply to anything heavy or unwieldy 2. can apply to things like speeches and writings that are labored	112
154133643	pontificate	(v) to speak pompously, hold forth in a dogmatic way	113
154133644	portend	(v) to foreshadow	114
154133645	portmanteau	(n) a traveling bag of a special sort; indicates a word that results from the blending of two other words, like brunch	115
154133646	pragmatic	(adj) activities, especially approaches, that deal with situations from a practical point of view	116
154133647	prate	(v) to babble, to talk too much	117
154133648	prattle	(v) to babble, chatter away, sometimes used as a noun, as in the prattle of little children	118
154133649	precipitate	(adj) 1. headlong 2. hasty 3. sudden 4. rash (v) to hasten, bring about prematurely	119
154133650	precipitous	(adj) very steep	120
154141330	prescience	(n) foreknowledge	121
154141331	presentiment	(n) a feeling that something is about to happen, with the implication that the something is bad or evil; a foreboding	122
154141332	prestidigitator	(n) magicians, especially those practicing sleight of hand; to indicate great or surprising skill	123
154141333	prevaricate	(v) to lie, to speak evasively; it covers the making of equivocal or evasive statement for the purpose of misleading	124
154141334	proclivity	(n) an inclination, tendency or proneness to it	125
154141335	procreate	(v) to beget (offspring), to generate	126
154141336	prodigal	(adj) 1. recklessly extravagant, wasteful 2. lavish 3. profuse, abundant (n) one who is prodigal	127
154141337	prodigious	(adj) enormous or amazing, marvelous	128
154150052	profligate	(adj) 1. utterly immoral 2. recklessly extravagant	129
154150053	prognosis	(n) forecast, prediction	130
154150054	prognosticate	(v) to forecast	131
154150055	proliferate	(v) to multiply, spread; literally, to grow by multiplication of parts; to expand	132
154150056	prolific	(adj) describes anyone or anything producing great quantities, such as a prolific apple tree	133
154150057	prolix	(adj) wordy and tedious, long-winded	134
154150058	propitious	(adj) to be favorable to something	135
154150059	proprietary	(adj) has to do w/ ownership; a special use is to describe articles made and sold by a particular company, usually under a patent or a trademark or both	136
154150060	prosaic	(adj) commonplace, dull, uninspired, uninspiring, humdrum	137
154167548	proselytize	(v) to convert someone to a new religion, political party, school of thought, to recruit	138
154167549	prurient	(adj) those who have, or are easily susceptible to, lewd thoughts	139
154167550	puckish	(adj) impish, mischievous, whimsical	140
154167551	puerile	(adj) childish, immature and silly	141
154167552	pugnacious	(adj) belligerent, always ready for a fight, quarrelsome	142
154167553	pulchritude	(n) beauty, found often in the phrase feminine pulchritude	143
154167554	purgative	(adj) cleansing (n) cathartic or laxative or any medicine that has that effcet	144
154167555	purloin	(v) to steal or filch	145
154167556	pusillanimous	(adj) cowardly, timid, afraid of his own shadow	146
154195027	putative	(adj) the equivalent of "thought to be, generally regarded as, supposed.	147
154195028	quaff	(v) to drink heartily	148
154195029	quarry	(n) describes a hunted animal, fish, flesh or fowl; signifies anything hunted	149
154195030	quash	(v) to annul; to suppress or quell	150
154195031	quaver	(v) 1. to tremble 2. to sing or speak tremulously 3. to trill	151
154195032	quay	(n) wharf; a strengthened bank of man-made stretch of stone along a waterway for the loading and unloading of ships	152
154195033	queue	(n) denotes a line of people waiting to take their turn (v) to form a line while waiting turn	153
154195034	quiescent	(adj) rest, inactive	154
154195035	quintessence	(n) the essential part; its embodiment	155
154195036	quixotic	(adj) impractical, visionary	156
154195037	rambunctious	(adj) extremely boisterous, hard to manage; noisy and overactive	157
154195038	rancor	(n) bitter, ranking resentment and ill will	158
154195039	rankle	(v) to cause lasting, bitter resentment and annoyance	159
154195040	rapacious	(adj) greedy, grasping, ready to seize whatever he can	160
154195041	rapt	(adj) absorbed and enrapturedre	161
154195042	recondite	(adj) hard to understand, profound, requiring high intelligence to grasp	162
154195043	reconnoiter	(v) to express the idea of exploring any situation where advance info might be useful	163
154195044	rectify	(v) to correct something, to put it right	164
154195045	rectitude	(n) righteousness, the strict observance of integrity and aherence to a high moral code	165
154195046	redolent	(adj) smelling of	166
154195047	regale	(v) to entertain someone lavishly, to amuse or delight him	167
154195048	rejoinder	(n) to answer to a reply	168
154195049	remand	(v) to order back	169
154195050	remonstrate	(v) to plead in protest against something, presenting arguments in opposition to something	170
154195051	renegade	(n) one who deserts his own party, group, country, ect to join another, usually the enemy or rival	171