AP Lang Midterm vocab Flashcards

49091942	decollete	low-necked, as a gown or dress	0
49091943	Supine	lying flat on one's back, face upward; lisless or lethargic; apathetic	1
49091944	fait accompli	an irreversible accomplishment	2
49091945	hierarchy	any system od things or people arranged or graded one aboce another in order of rank, wealth or classes	3
49091946	quasi-	resembling, but not actually beingl seemingly but not actually or completelyl partly	4
49091947	morass	patch of low, soft, wet ground, swamp	5
49091948	adjunct	something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential	6
49091949	raillery	good humored ridecule; teasing	7
49091950	poltroon	an unqualified coward	8
49091951	chimerical	absurd; wildly fanatic; impossible	9
49091952	mirage	something withour substance; an illusion	10
49091953	ribald	irreverently mocking, offensive; vulgar	11
49091954	bellwether	a male sheep which leads the flock to the slaugtherhouse; a leader	12
49091955	proselyte	a convert; a discipline	13
49091956	noisome	offensive or disgusting, soul-smelling	14
49091957	liturgy	a form of public worship or ritual	15
49091958	oblivious	forgetful, unaware	16
49091959	effete	lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn our or exhausted; sterile	17
49091960	hidebound	narrou-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices	18
49091961	vignette	a decorative desrign on the title page of a book or at the biggining or end chapter; a shoprt verbal description or sketch	19
49091962	sanguine	having a ruddy complexion; of a naturally cheerful outlook	20
49091963	riparian	of or apearingto the banks of a river or the shores of a lake	21
49091964	purview	the range, extent or scope of something	22
49091965	fulsome	disgusting or offensive because excessive or insincere	23
49091966	solecism	substandaard or ungrammatical usage	24
49091967	verisimilitude	the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely ot probable	25
49091968	microcosm	a miniature world or universe	26
49091969	aegis	protection, pratonage, sponsorship	27
49091970	eleemosynuary	charitable, dependent upon or supported by charity	28
49091971	claque	a group of people hierd to applaud a performer or performance	29
49091972	symptopmatic	indicaticel typical or characteristic	30
49091973	indemnify	to insure against loss or damagel to comensate for whateve has een lost or damaged	31
49091974	bibulous	fond of, perhaps addicted to drinking	32
49091975	indigenous	originating in the ocuntry or region where found; native	33
49091976	apprise	to infrom of, to make awate of by giving oral or written notice	34
49091977	obtrude	to push our or thrust forward	35
49091978	obfuscate	to darken or obscurel to confuse or bewilder	36
49091979	deracinate	to pull up by theroostl to uproot or dislocate; to eliminate all traces of	37
49091980	polarize	to cause to conetrate upon two conflicting or contrasting points	38
49091981	logomachy	an argument about words	39
49091982	evanescent	passing away with time	40
49091983	ribald	connect with laughtedl able or inclined to laugh	41
49091984	derring-do	valor or heroism, daring deeds or exploits	42
49091985	affinity	a natural attraction to a person, thing or activity	43
49091986	corollary	a proposition that follows from one already proven	44
49091987	bibulous	peevish or irritable, sickeningly unpleasant	45
49091988	hoi polloi	the common poeplel the masses	46
49091989	folderol	foolish talk; non-sense	47
49091990	cognate	colsely related in region, esential nature or function	48
49091991	elixir	a substance once thought capeable of changing base metals into gold; a cure-all	49
49091992	cul-de-sac	a blind alley or dead end	50
49091993	divination	the act or art of predicting the future	51
49091994	obloquy	oublic abuse indicating strong disaproval or censure	52
49091995	paternalism	the policy or practice of treating or govering indviduals, businesses or nations in a maner of a father or mother dealing with kids	53
49091996	volte-face	an about face; a complte reversal	54
49091997	ineffable	not expressible in words;too great or too scared to be uttered	55
49091998	mnemonic	a device intended to air the memory such as an acronym	56
49091999	lucubration	laborious study or thought, espectially at night	57
49092000	parameter	a mathematical factor that shapes or limits the total outcome	58
49092001	tautology	needless repetition of an idea by using different but equivalent words; redundancy	59
49092002	tendentious	characteized by a definite purpose, usually the advancement of a particular point	60
49092003	jenjune	lacking in nutritive value; lacking in knowledge or experience	61
49092004	emolument	profit derived from an office or postion or from employment; fee or salary	62
49092005	foray	a quick raid	63
49092006	aficionado	an enthusiastic and usually expert follower or fan	64
49092007	sacrosanct	very sacred or holy	65
49092008	obsequies	funeral rights or ceremonies	66
49092009	homily	a sermon stressing moral discipline	67
49092010	genre	a type, class or variety.	68
49092011	phillipic	a bitter verbal attack	69
49092012	matrix	a mold the sorrounding situationin which something develops, eveolves, or exists	70
49092013	ombudsman	an official who investigaes complaints made by private citizens against goveremnt agenciesl a mediator	71
49092014	malapropism	humorous or ridiculous confusion of similar sounding words	72
49092015	vicissitude	a change variation or alterationl successive or changing phrases; human afairs of forture	73
49092016	immure	to ecnlose or confine within walls; to imprison	74
49092017	prurient	hacing lustful desire ir interestl teding to arouse sexual desire	75
49092018	insouciant	blithely indifferent or uncondered; carefree	76
49092019	commensurate	equal in size extent, duration, or importance	77
49092020	disaphanous	very sheer and light; almost completely transparent	78
49092021	blazon	to adorn or embelish	79
49092022	cozen	to trick, to cheat	80
49092023	macrocosm	the universe consdered as a wholel the entire of something	81
49092024	ancillary	subordiante or supplementary	82
49092025	interstice	a small narryow space between things or parts of things	83
49092026	bowdlerize	to remove material considered offensive	84
49092027	module	a standard unit of measurementl a self contained unit or part	85
49092028	enclave	an eclosed district, region or area inhhabited by a paticular group	86
49092029	forte	a person's strong point; what a person does best	87
49092030	condescend	to come down or stoop voluntarily to a lower level	88
49092031	heretical	departing from established or accepted doctrines, opinions or standards	89
49092032	rapacity	inordinate greed; the dospostion to obtain one's desires by force	90
49092033	virtuose	a brilliant performerl a person with masterly skill or technique	91
49092034	mountebank	trickster, jokester charlatan	92
49092035	paean	a song of praise jow or triumph	93
49092036	therapeutic	having the power to heal or cure, generally beneficial	94
49092037	pragmatic	concereed with practical consideration or values	95
49092038	plethora	overfullness, superabundance of	96
49092039	persiflage	lighthearted, joking talk or writting	97
49092040	schism	a formal split within a church or religious groupl division or separation	98
49092041	quizzical	puzzled, mocking; odd	99
49103778	internecine	mutually destructive; characterized by ggreat slughter or bloodshed	100
49103779	traumatic	so shocking to the emoticons as to couse lasting and substancia; psychologic damage	101
49103780	touchstone	a means of testing worth or genuinee	102
49103781	perscience	knowledge of events or actions before they happen	103
49103782	gaggle	a flock of geese; a group	104
49103783	abortive	failing to accomplish an intended aim or purpose	105
49103784	dictum	a short saying	106
49103785	quid pro quo	something given in ezchage or return for something else; colateral	107
49103786	maladroit	lacking still or dexterity	108
49103787	maudlin	excessively or effusively sentimental	109
49103788	enconce	to settle comfortable and firmly in positionl to put or hide in a safe place	110
49103789	vitiate	to weaken, debase, or corruptl to impair the quality or value of	111
49103790	saturnalian	characterized by ritous or unrestrained revelry or licentiouesness	112
49103791	portentious	warning of evil to come, as by a sign or omen; causing wonder or awe	113
49103792	salubrious	conducive or favorable to health or well-beign; wholesome	114
49103793	waggish	fond of making jokes, characteristics of a joker	115
49103794	iconoclastic	attacking or seeking to overthrow popula or traditional beliefs	116
49103795	contumelious	insolent or rude in behavior	117
49103796	modulate	to regulate, adjust or "tone down" the intensity of sound; grauadly soften	118
49103797	bruit	to spread reports, news or unsubstained rumors	119
49103798	ambivalent	having opposite and conflicting feelings about someone or something	120
49103799	fastidious	overly demanding or hard to please	121
49103800	carte blanche	full freedom or authority to act at one's own discretion	122
49103801	philistine	lacking in, hostile to, or smigly indifferent to cultural and artistic values	123
49103802	savoir faire	the ability to say and do the right thing in any situation	124
49103803	bumtious	offensively forward or self assertive	125
49103804	gambol	to jump or skip about playfully	126
49103805	eclat	dazzling or conspicous success or acclaim; grat brilliance(usually a performacne or act)	127
49103806	debauch	to lead away from virtue or excellence; to corrupt or debase	128
49103807	cataclysm	a suydden, violent, or devastating upheval	129
49103808	opt	to make a choice or decision	130
49103809	abeyance	state of being temprarily inactice,suspended, not acted upon	131
49103810	imbue	to soak or stain throughlyl to fill in the mind	132
49103811	picaresque	involvingor characteistic of clever rouges or adventures	133
49103812	malleable	capable of being formed into different shapes without breaking	134
49103813	queasy	nauseated or uneasy; causiong nusea	135
49103814	refractory	stubornl hard or difficult to manage	136
49103815	lampoon	a malicious statire; to attack by means of such a satire	137
49103816	inchoate	just biggining; not fully shaped or formedl not organized	138
49103817	nemesis	the agen or force inflicting vegenace or punishmentl unbeatable nemy or opponent	139
49137267	de facto	actually existing or in effect	140
49137268	ad hoc	for this spicific purpose	141
49137269	aberration	a departure from what is proper, right, expected or normal	142
49137270	harbinger	forreunner. a herald	143
49137271	peccadillo	a minor sin or offense; a tifling fault or shortcoming	144
49137272	lackluster	lacking brilliance or vitality; dull	145
49137273	pander	to cater to or proide satisdaction for the low taste	146
49137274	bathos	the intrustion of commonplace or trite material into a context whose tone is lofty or elevated	147
49137275	equate	to treat or regard as equal or equivalent; to reduce to a standard or average	148
49137276	syndrome	a group of symptoms or signs that collecticely characterize or indicate a disease	149
49137277	remand	to send or order back	150
49137278	hedonism	belief that the attainemnt of please is life's chief aim	151
49137279	constrain	co compel by force; restrain freedom or mobility	152
49137280	mellifluous	flowing sweetly or smoothly	153
49137281	bane	the soruce or cause of fatal injury, death, destruction or ruin	154
49137282	casuistry	determinationof right and wrong in questions of conduct or matters of conscience by the applications of ethical principles	155
49137283	depredation	the act of preying upon or plunderinrg	156
49137284	piece de resistance	principle dish or meal; principle of even; center piece	157
49137285	nepotism	undue favortism to one's relative or close personal friends	158
49137286	malcontent	disconteted with or in open defiance of	159
49137287	fevid	burning with enthusiasm or zeal; extremely heated	160
49137288	fetid	having an unpleasant odor	161
49137289	abraizive	any material used for grinding or polishing	162
49137290	caterwaul	howl or wail, like a cat	163
49137291	digress	to wander away from the main subject or train of thought	164
49137292	dank	unpleasantly damn or wet	165
49137293	beatitude	a state of perfect happiness or blessedness	166
49137294	ecumenical	world-wide or unversal in influecne	167
49137295	bete noire	someone or something that especially dislikes, dreads or avoids	168
49137296	gargantuan	immense size, vlume or capacity	169
49137297	truckle	yo yield or submit tamely or submissively	170
49137298	heyday	the period of gratest power, vigor, success or influence; prime years	171
49137299	propitiate	to make someone or something favorably inclinde towards oneself	172
49137300	incubus	a demon or evil spirit supposed to haunt human beigns in their bedrroms at night	173
49137301	lagnaippe	an extra or uneexpected gift or gratuity	174
49137302	sycophant	soemone who attemts to win favors or advance himself by flatter or servile behavior	175
49137303	protege	someone whose welfare, training and carrer is under the patronage of an influenctial person	176
49137304	kudos	the acclaim perstiege or renown which comes as the result of some action or achevement	177
49137305	prototype	the original parten or model; a primitive or ancestral form	178
49137306	inveigle	to entice, lure or snare by flattery or artful inducements	179
49142101	engender	to bring into existence; to produce	180
49142102	gullible	easily decieved or duped	181
49142103	acumen	keeness of insightl quickness or accuracy of judgement	182
49142104	dissimilate	to hide of disguise one's true thoughts , feelings or intentions	183
49142105	chronic	continued for a long time, persisting, often with increasing severity	184
49142106	emperical	derived from, dependent upon, or guided by practical experience, rather than by theory	185
49142107	apocryphal	of doubtful or questionable authenticty; fake	186
49142108	disparity	difference or inequality in age, rank ,amount; dissimilarity	187
49142109	flamboyant	hightly elaborate or ornate; vividly colored	188
49142110	compendium	a brief summary	189
49142111	sublimate	to redirect energy into a higher, more acceptable channel	190
49142112	mot juste	the most suitable or exact word or expression	191
49142113	traduce	to slander someone by means of flase and malicious accussations	192
49142114	immolate	to kill as a sacrafice	193
49142115	prolix	long winded and wordy	194
49142116	nihilism	total rejection of existing laws; extreme radicalism	195
49142117	liaison	contact or means of communication maintained between units; close relationship	196
49142118	monolithic	characterized by massiveness, solidness and total uniformity	197
49142119	sic	thus, so	198
49142120	patrician	a member of the ruling class; noble	199
49142121	adjucdicate	to act as judge in a matterl to sttle through the use of a judge or legal tribunal	200
49142122	anachronism	a chronological misplacing of events, object or customs	201
49142123	fulsome	offensively insencire or excessive; disgusting	202
49142124	imperceptible	extremely slight, incapeable of being percieved by the senses or mind	203
49142125	lackey	a uniformed make servant; servile follower	204
49142126	propitiate	to make someone or something favorably incline towards oneself; to conciliate, stisfy or apease	205