AP Lang Final vocab (Units 11-15, AP Units 1-5)

72940366	Apostate	one who forsakes his religion or party
72940367	Gothic	Characterized by or emhasizing a gloomy setting and grotesque or violent events
72940368	Consensus	collective or general aggrement of an opinion, feeling or thinking
72940369	Laberinth	A bewildering maze
72940370	Effusive	highly demonstrative; unrestrained
72940371	quixotic	extravagantly or romantically idealistic
72940372	tangetial	Only sligtly connected; only superficially relevant
72940373	bravado	display of false or assumed courage
72940374	redundant	superfluous; needlessly repetitive
72940375	Euphoria	a feeling of great happiness or well-being
72940376	impasse	a dead end; point from which there is no escape
72940377	calumny	a false and malicious statement made to injure someone's reputation or character
72940378	dichotomy	division into two contradictory parts
72940379	mystique	the framework of ideas or beliefs constructed around a person or thing which confers upon hom or its profound meaning
72940380	non sequitur	any inference or conclusion which does not follow logically from the facts or premisis
72940381	sine qua non	an essential or indispensable elemnt or condition
72940382	plebeian	of, belonging to common people or the lower classes
72940383	propitious	favorable, indicative of favor, good results or a happy outcome
72940384	lugubrious	sad, mournful or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree
72940385	metamorphosis	a complete transformation, as if by magic
72940386	constrict	to make smaller or narrower, draw together
72940387	reconteur	someone skilled at telling stories
72940388	vendetta	a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other
72940389	quagmire	a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
72940390	parlous	full of danger or risk, perilous
72940391	punctilio	a minute detail of conduct or procedure; an instant of time
72945548	viable	capable of life or normal growth and development
72945549	vacuous	devoid of significance or point
72945550	narcissism	excessive love of one's body or oneself
72945551	charisma	personal appeal or attraction; magnetism
72945552	precarious	dangerous, risky, not a secure situation
72945553	niggardly	stingy; meanly small or insufficient
72945554	execrable	utterly detestable, hateful, or abhorrent; extremely inferior
72945555	utilitarian	stressing practicality over other considerations; relating to the belief that what is good or desirable is determined purely by its usefulness
72945556	zany	clownish or funny in a crazy, bizarre, or ludicrous way; one who plays the clown
72945557	xenophobia	undue or unreasonable fear, hatred, or contempt of foreigners or strangers or of what is foreign or strange
72945558	pastiche	a dramatic, musical, or literary work made up of bits and pieces from other sources; a hodgepodge
72945559	augur	a prophet or seer; to predict, foreshadow
72945560	vagary	an unpredictable, erratic, or seemingly purposeless action, occurrence, or notion
72945561	rapport	a close and harmonious relationship
72945562	raconteur	a person skilled in telling anecdotes
72945563	zealot	a fanancial partisan
72945564	apposite	appropriate
72945565	impinge	to strike against or collide with violently; to encroach or obtrude upon; to make an impression upon
72945566	bilk	to defraud, cheat, or swindle; to evade payment of; to frustrate, thwart
72945567	debilitate	to make weak or feeble
72949239	clairvoyant	having the ability to see beyond the range of ordinary perception
72949240	immaculate	spotless; flawless; absolutely clean
72949241	bromide	a trite or commonplace remark
72949242	acerbity	soruness or bitterness of taste
72949243	ineluctable	not able to be avoided
72949244	vestigial	visible or existing only in a rudimentary or greatly degenerated state
72949245	resplendent	shining or gleaming brilliantly
72949246	accolade	praise or aproval
72949247	mercurial	characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes of mood
72949248	imprecation	a curse
72949249	empathy	the ability to enter into or experience another person's actions
72949250	factionalism	partly strife and intrigue
72949251	chauvinist	extravagantly patriotic
72949252	attrition	the process of wearing down by friction or gradual impairment
72949253	volition	the power to choose
72949254	vainglory	excessive pride in and boastfulness about one's own
72949255	sub rosa	in secret
72949256	stigmatize	to brand or mark out as in some way discreditable
72949257	palliate	to make less serious or sever by glossing over
72949258	protocol	customs and regulations dealing with official behavior and etiquette
72974246	contretemps	an inopportune or embarrasing occurence
72974247	disparate	completely distinct or different
72974248	convolution	a rolling up, coiling or twisting together
72974249	repartee	a swift witty reply
72974250	dogmatic	certain of the truth of one's ideas
72974251	Apropos	appropriate, opportune
72974252	noxious	harmfull to physical health
72974253	apogee	the point in the orbit of heavenly body or artificial setelite fartherst from the earth
72974254	unconscionable	not guided or restrained by conscious,prudence or reason
72974255	edify	to instruct in such a way as to encourage moral and spiritual development
72974256	necromancy	communication with the spirits of the dead
72974257	probity	complete and confirmed honesty
72974258	licentious	morally or sexually unrestrained
72974259	bicker	to engage in a petty or peevish dispute
72974260	mete	to distribute or apportion as if by measure
72974261	polemic	an argument designed to attach or refute a specific opinion
72974262	proscribe	to denounce or condemn as harmful or dangerous
72974263	cull	to pick out select, to gather
72974264	coalesce	to blend together or fuse so as to form one body
72974265	supervene	to take place or occur as something additional or unexpected
72976988	curmudgeon	an irascible, churlish person
72976989	beguile	to mislead or decieve; to cheat
72976990	complement	something that completes the whole
72976991	disingenuous	lacking in sincerity or candor; not straight forward
72976992	adumbrate	to outline or sketch broadly
72976993	apotheosis	the elevation of a person to divine rank or status
72976994	contumacious	abstinently or willfully disobedient; openly rebellious
72976995	burgeon	to put forth new buds or greenery; develop rapidly
72976996	disquisition	formal discourse or treatise
72976997	didactic	intended to instruct, typically in a moral way
72976998	hauteur	haughtiness of bearing or attitude
72976999	jeremiad	an elaborate or prolonged lamentation
72977000	purport	the meaning or purpose of something
72977001	faux pas	slight slip in manners; social blunder
72977002	opportunist	someone who makes a practice of taking advantage of circumstances to further his or her own self interest
72977003	enjoin	to direct or order
72977004	fustain	inflated or pretentious language in speech or writting
72977005	inhibit	to restrain or hold back; hinder
72977006	fulminate	to denounce or condemn vehemently
72977007	obsession	a persistent preoccupation with an idea, feeling, or desire.
72980571	invective	an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.
72980572	antecedent	the word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun
72980573	pedantic	an adjective that describes words, phrases or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish
72980574	syntax	th way the author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses and sentences
72980575	chiasmus	a figure of speech based on inverted parallelism
72980576	allegory	device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.
72980577	personification	figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions
72980578	Predicate Nominative	a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject
72980579	oxymoron	an author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox
72980580	colloquialism	slang or informality in speech or writing
72980581	litotes	figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite.
72980582	transition	word or phrase that links different ideas
72980583	ad hominem argument	From the Latin meaning "to or against the man," this is an argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feeling rather than intellect
72980584	parody	a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule
72986063	aphorism	terse statement of known suthorship that expresses a genereal trutho r moral principle
72986064	connotation	the nonliteral, associative meaning of a word, the implied
72986065	ambiguity	the multiple meanings ,either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.
72986066	polysyndeton	Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses
72986067	denotation	the strict, literal meaning of a word
72986068	prose	one of the major divisions of genre
72986069	asyndeton	consist of omiting conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses
72986070	rhetorical modes	this flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing.
72986071	anaphora	the repetition of th same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences
72986072	didactic	instructive
72986073	conceit	figure of speech which makes an unusual and sometimes elaborately sustained comparison between two dissimilar things
72986074	meiosis	rhetorical figure by which something is referred to in terms less important than it really deserves.(understatement)
72986075	ellipsis	...
72986076	antithesis	FOS involving a seeming cotradiction of words, ideas, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure.
72986077	genre	major category into which a literary work fits.
72989908	motif	recurring important idea or image;
72989909	zeugma	use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use is grammatically or logically correct with only one.
72989910	isocolon	succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure
72989911	logos	persuasion by demonstration of truth, real, or apparent
72989912	trope	produces a shift in th meaning of words
72989913	pathos	persuasion by emotion
72989914	ethos	persuasion by ethics
72989915	hamartia	describes some error or frailty that brings about misfortune for a tragic hero
72989916	catharsis	release of emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy
72989917	hubris	excessive pride or self-confidence
72989918	in medias res	beggining a story in the middle of the action
72989919	bildungsroman	novel of someone's growth from childhood to maturity
72989920	elegy	poem dealing with with complaints about love, lamentation or somber mediations
72989921	epistolary	taking the form of a letter, or actually consisting of a letter written to another
72989922	deductive	the process of logic in which a thinker takes a rule for a large, general category and assumes that specific individual examples fitting within that general category obey the same rule
72989923	epigraph	quotations at the beginning of a poem, short story or book chapter
72989924	fallacy	argument that isn't based on sound logic and doesn't logically flow.
72994278	syllogism	form of decutive reasoning which given certain ideas or facts, other ideas or facts must follow (linear thinking)
72994279	Maxim	saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth
72994280	idyll	lyric porm or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place
72994281	exegesis	detailed nalaysis or interpretation of a work of prose or poestry
72994282	archetype	abstract or ideal conception of a type; example
72994283	bathos	insincere or overdone pathos
72994284	verisimilitude	similar to th truth the quality of realism in a work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is
72994285	anachronism	element that fails to correspond to the correct time scene
72994286	non sequitur	statement or idea that fails to follow logically from teh one before
72994287	wit	quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things that surprise and delight their unexpectedness
72994288	eponymous	a term for the title character of a work of literature
72994289	burlesque	a work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; grotesque imitation
72994290	bombastic	ostentationsly lofty in style
72994291	stylistic devices	a general term referring to diction, syntax, tone or figurative language
72994292	cynic	person who believes all people are motived by selfishness
72994293	farce	comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, though it may have a serious purpose
72994294	pun	humorous play on words
72995783	loose sentence	sentence that follows customary word order of english sentences
72995784	voice	real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker
72995785	epiphany	sudden intuitive insight or perception into the reality or essential meaning of something
72995786	pathetic fallacy	faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes himan feelings to nature or nonhuman objects
72995787	expose	piece of writting that reveals weaknesses
72995788	metacognition	monitoring ones own thoughts
72995789	epistrophe	the repetition of word or words as the end of two or more successie verses, clauses or sentences
72995790	antihero	rotagonist of a literary work who does not embody the traditional qualities of a hero
72995791	annotation	brief summary or evaluation of a text or work of literature
72995792	doppelganger	ghostly counterpart of a living person or an alter ego
72995793	coherence	quality of a piece of writting in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea
72995794	aesthetic	pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or form
72995795	imperative	sentence that relays a command
72995796	digression	the portion of discourse that wanders or departs from the main subjects or topic