AP Language Set 9 Flashcards
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2401732871 | Decorous | proper; marked by good taste | 0 | |
2401732872 | equanimity | the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure | 1 | |
2401732873 | modest | quiet or humble in manner or appearance | 2 | |
2401732874 | propriety | appropriateness of behavior | 3 | |
2401732875 | prudent | exercising good judgment or common sense | 4 | |
2401732876 | serene | calm | 5 | |
2401732877 | staid | unemotional; serious | 6 | |
2401732878 | stoic | indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive | 7 | |
2401732879 | condemn | to express strong disapproval of; denounce | 8 | |
2401732880 | discredit | to cause to be doubted | 9 | |
2401732881 | disparage | to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle | 10 | |
2401732882 | pejorative | describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone | 11 | |
2401732883 | plagiarism | the act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own | 12 | |
2401732884 | vilify | to make vicious statements about | 13 | |
2401732885 | brusque | rudely abrupt | 14 | |
2401732886 | caustic | bitingly sarcastic or witty | 15 | |
2401732887 | fractious | quarrelsome; unruly | 16 | |
2401732888 | incorrigible | unable to be reformed | 17 | |
2401732889 | ingrate | an ungrateful person | 18 | |
2401732890 | insolent | insulting in manner or speech | 19 |