AP Language Diction Words Flashcards

4187392329	artificial	lacking naturalness or spontaneity; forced; contrived; feigned; synthetic, counterfeit	0
4187392330	colloquial	characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal	1
4187393519	colorful	richly eventful or picturesque; presenting or suggesting vivid or striking scenes; spirited	2
4187393520	concrete	constituting an actual thing or instance; real; pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular	3
4187393521	connotative	having the power of implying or suggesting something in addition to what is explicit; The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning; an idea or meaning suggested by a thing	4
4187394851	cultured	the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc	5
4187394852	elevated	formal	6
4187394853	emotional	pertaining to or involving emotion or the emotions; appealing to the emotions; showing or revealing strong emotions, temperamental, effusive, demonstrative, sentimental	7
4187396547	esoteric	understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; private; secret; confidential; belonging to a select few	8
4187396548	euphemistic	substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one. "Upset Stomach" instead of puke, barf, up chuck	9
4187397649	exact	characterized by or using strict accuracy	10
4187397650	grotesque	odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre, distorted, deformed, weird	11
4187399413	homespun	unpolished; unsophisticated; simple; rustic: homespun humor	12
4187399414	idiomatic	peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect: idiomatic French. having a distinct style or character, esp. in the arts: idiomatic writing; an idiomatic composer. containing or using many idioms (idiom=an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language; regional speech or dialect eat crow)	13
4187400581	insipid	without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality. bland	14
4187400582	jargon	the language, esp. the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group	15
4187401853	learned	having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite;	16
4187401854	moralistic	Characterized by or displaying a concern with morality; marked by narrow-minded morality	17
4187403412	obscure	not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.; not clear to the understanding; hard to perceive: obscure motivations; not expressing the meaning clearly or plainly	18
4187403413	pedantic	overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, esp. in teaching; ostentatious (pretentious/intended to attract notice or attention of others) in one's learning	19
4187405266	picturesque	strikingly graphic or vivid; creating detailed mental images: a picturesque description of the Brazilian jungle; having pleasing or interesting qualities; strikingly effective in appearance	20
4187405267	plain	clear to the mind; evident, manifest, or obvious; without intricacies or difficulties; with little or no embellishment, decoration, or enhancing elaboration; ordinary	21
4187405268	poetic	possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature	22
4187406751	precise	definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed, carefully distinct, explicit	23
4187406752	pretentious	characterized by assumption of dignity or importance; making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious;	24
4187406753	prosaic	ordinary, every day, opposite of poetic	25
4187407986	scholarly	concerned with academic learning; of, like, or befitting a scholar; academic	26
4187407987	sensuous	Of, relating to, or derived from the senses; Appealing to or gratifying the senses	27
4189653191	simple	not grand or sophisticated; unpretentious; not complex or complicated; natural, unembellished; ordinary	28
4189653192	slang	very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid, and ephemeral than ordinary language, as Hit the road.	29
4189653193	symbolic	characterized by or involving the use of symbols	30
4189654803	vulgur	characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste; indecent; obscene; lewd	31