AP Lang Vocab 1-3
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a name or title that distinguishes or identifies | ||
a speech sound that consists of either two vowels or a bowel and a semivowel contained in a single syllable | ||
a person for whom something is or is thought to be named | ||
the study of human speech, especially its components, structure, and nature, and how it changes | ||
a newly made-up word, phrase, or expression | ||
a particular manner or kind of speech | ||
a. a dialect other than the standard dialect of a language, especially a regional or uneducated form of speech. b. the distinctive language of a special group; jargon | ||
Adjective: a. consisting of many groups speaking different languages. b. speaking or writing several languages. c. containing elements or material from different languages. Noun: a. a person who knows several languages. b. a mixture of languages | ||
a. the ungrammatical usage of a word or construction of a sentence b. a violation of good manners or good taste c. something out of the normal or proper order | ||
a. spoken by or using the language spoken by the common people rather than literary, cultured, or learned people; vernacular b. of or associated with the common people c. lacking taste or delicacy; coarse d. conspicuous and excessive; pretentious | ||
an object worn to bring luck or to protect against evil or injury; charm | ||
characterized by or subject to sudden, unpredictable changes; fickle | ||
the belief that all events are determined in advance by fate and cannot be changed by human means | ||
a set of words spoken as a magic charm or to cast a magic spell | ||
resulting from or seeming to result from divine will; fortunate; opportune | ||
a peculiarity of behavior; mannerism; idiosyncrasy | ||
the ability to make valuable discoveries by chance; luck | ||
a wild or unpredictable notion or action; odd fancy | ||
a. one of the sudden or unexpected changes or shifts often encountered in one's life, activities, or surroundings b. a change or variation | ||
presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious; adventageous | ||
a. the condition of being without a stop or interruption b. an uninterrupted succession or flow | ||
a. to approach the same point from different directions; meet b. to move toward a common conclusion or result | ||
a. the basic or essential feature of something b. a baffling or puzzling point that is difficult to explain | ||
a. to begin; originate; cause to begin b. to admit into membership | ||
a. central or crucial to something; very important b. pertaining to a pivot, the shaft about which a related part rotates or swings | ||
a. something that follows; continuation b. a result or consequence c. a literary work that, while complete in itself, continues an already existing narrative | ||
noun: one subject to the authority of another. adjective: of a lower class or rank; interior. trans. verb: to put in a lower class or rank; make inferior. | ||
only superficially relevant or related | ||
a. to bring to an end; conclude b. to come to an end | ||
a. last; coming at the end b. farthest; extreme c. greatest possible |