AP Vocab. 7
Terms : Hide Images [1]
| 235667873 | obfuscate | to deliberately obscure; to make confusing | |
| 235667874 | simulacrum | a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | |
| 235667875 | assiduous | marked by care and persistent effort | |
| 235667876 | ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling | |
| 235667877 | cacophonous | harsh-sounding, raucous, discordant, dissonant | |
| 235667878 | mollify | to calm or soothe | |
| 235667879 | hackneyed | repeated too often | |
| 235667880 | dilatory | tending to delay or procrastinate | |
| 235667881 | antediluvian | so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period | |
| 235667882 | inexorable | not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course | |
| 235667883 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | |
| 235667884 | cadence | rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words | |
| 235667885 | bathos | insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity | |
| 235667886 | dissonance | harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds | |
| 235667887 | hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | |
| 235667888 | loose sentence | a type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses | |
| 235667889 | periodic sentence | Presents the main clause at the end of the sentence, for emphasis | |
| 235667890 | oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | |
| 235667891 | pastoral | a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) | |
| 235667892 | plaint | a poem or speech expressing sorrow |