Vocabulary Test: AP Literature Flashcards
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| 4860020527 | Ascetic(adj) | austere; rigorously abstinent; one who practices extreme self denial. | 0 | |
| 4860031513 | Avarice(noun) | greed; inordinate desire to gain and hoard wealth. | 1 | |
| 4860051405 | Calibrate(verb) | mark with graduations. | 2 | |
| 4860058220 | Cauterize(verb) | burn for curative purposes with iron. | 3 | |
| 4860123496 | Cavalier(adj) | haughty; disdainful;unceremonious. | 4 | |
| 4861081257 | Debacle(noun) | sudden collapse; general breakup; violent rush of waters or ice. | 5 | |
| 4861083518 | Disburse(verb) | expend; pay out; distribute. | 6 | |
| 4861091057 | Ecclesiastical(adj) | clerical (as opposed to lay): of the church or clergy. | 7 | |
| 4861093055 | Feckless(adj) | feeble; ineffective; worthless; lazy; valueless. | 8 | |
| 4861094463 | Ingenuous(adj) | artless; innocent; naive; candid. | 9 | |
| 4861296046 | Lissome(adj) | supple; nimble; agile; limber. | 10 | |
| 4861298289 | Marsupial(noun) | pertaining to a pouch; any mammal that nurses or carries young in a pouch. | 11 | |
| 4861300535 | Obdurate(adj) | stubborn; unyielding; unmovable;persistently impenitent. | 12 | |
| 4861303267 | Puissant(adj) | powerful; might; potent. | 13 | |
| 4861305551 | Peremptory(adj) | arbitrary; dogmatic; arrogant; incontrovertible; imperious; decisive; leaving no chance for refusal or denial. | 14 | |
| 4861582291 | Satyr(noun) | a lecher; a lascivious man; a woodland deity, part human, part goat. | 15 | |
| 4861584066 | Teleology(noun) | The belief that designs are apparent in nature, and that final causes exist. | 16 | |
| 4861584067 | Tepid(adj) | lukewarm; moderately warm. | 17 | |
| 4861588574 | Ungulate(adj) | hooflike; of or about hoofed mammals; any of the hoofed mammals. | 18 | |
| 4861590505 | Venal(adj) | mercenary; corruptible; open to corrupt influence or bribery; capable of being bought. | 19 |