AP Language & Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

5049775948	Quip	A witty remark	0
5049775949	Aphorism	A wise saying	1
5049775950	Pithy	Expressive	2
5049775951	Esoteric	Intended for or understood by the select few that have special knowledge or interest	3
5049775952	Prurience	Inclined to have or characterized by luscious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc	4
5049775953	Prosy	Dull,tedious,wearisome, or commonplace	5
5049775954	Rigmaroles	Elaborate or complicated procedure	6
5049775955	Erudition	Knowledge acquired by study	7
5049775956	Pious	Characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion	8
5049775957	Aposiopesis	A sudden braking off in the midst of a sentence	9
5049775958	Licentiousness	Sexually unrestrained; lascivious	10
5049775959	Chaste	Not engaging in sexual relations	11
5049775960	Notoriety	The state, quality, or character of being known for a bad reason	12
5049775961	Malodorous	Having an unpleasant or offensive odor	13
5049775962	Putrefaction	The anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria	14
5049775963	Odious	Deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable	15
5049775964	Execrated	To detest utterly; abhor; abominable	16
5049926836	Poseurs	A person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment	17
5049926837	Mawkish	Desire to inflict injury, harm or suffering on another either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness	18
5049926838	Virulence	Venomous hostility	19
5049926839	Exasperate	To irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely	20
5049926840	Profligate/ libertine	Morally unrestrained, free with morals	21
5049926841	Vitriol	Hate speech	22
5049926842	Diatribe	Direct attack	23
5049926843	Invective	Censure or reproach	24
5049926844	Syllogism	A form of logical reasoning	25
5049926845	Paradox	A statement that contradicts itself	26
5049926846	Anecdote	Short funny story	27
5049926847	Oxymoron	2 words that contradict themselves	28
5049926848	Digression	Revering of a particular topic	29
5049926849	Acuity	Mental sharpness	30
5049926850	Transience	Fleeting, effeminate nature	31
5049926851	Inverted syntax	Verb comes first than subject	32
5049926852	Minutiae	Small, precise, trivial	33
5049926853	Doting	Proudly caring for somebody	34
5049926854	Obfuscate	To confuse bewilder or stupefying	35
5049926855	Orthodoxy	Orthodox belief or practice	36
5049926856	Underscore	Stress or emphasize	37
5049926857	Flippant	Disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness	38
5049926858	Debased	To reduce quality or value	39
5049926859	Duplicity	An act or instance of such deceitfulness	40
5049926860	Colloquialism	Characteristic of or to ordinary or familiar conversation	41
5049926861	Allure	To attract or tempt by something flattering or desirable	42
5049926862	Cynicism	Disposition, character, or belief distrusting or disparaging the motives of others	43
5049926863	Frivolously	Non important	44
5049926864	Feigned	Pretended; sham; counterfeit, assumed, fictitious, disguised	45
5049926865	Bravado	A pretentious, swaggering display of courage	46
5049926866	Musing	Thinking, pondering	47
5049926867	Salient	Stands out	48
5049926868	Recapitulate	Summarizing	49
5652075002	Dignity	bearing, conduct, or speech indicative of self-respect or appreciation of the formality or gravity of an occasion or situation.	50
5652075003	Pernicious	Causing insidious harm or ruin	51
5652093115	Pedantic	Preachy	52
5652093116	Perspicuity	Clear and easy to understand	53
5652101876	Cant	Hypocritical, sanctimonious	54
5652107071	Circumlocutions	Talking in circles	55
5692789815	Caricature	A picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things. Ex: his caricature of the mayor in this mornings paper is the best he's ever drawn.	56
5692789816	Dispassionate	Devoid of personal feeling or bias	57
5692789817	Conciliatory	Placating; attempting to win favor or goodwill	58
5692789818	Incredulity	Disbelief	59
5692789819	Spontaneity	Impulsiveness	60
5692789820	Fledgling	Inexperienced	61
5692789821	Unremitting	Unceasing, without stopping	62
5692789822	Candor	The state or quality of being frank, open, sincere	63
5692789823	Brash	Impertinent; basic repugnance; aversion	64
5692789824	Whimsical	Exhibiting whims--capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea	65
5692789825	Incisive	Impressively direct and decisive in presentation; straight to the point, cutting to the heart of something	66
5692789826	Picturesque	Visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for painting; strikingly graphic or vivid; creating detailed mental images:	67
5692789827	Exhortation	Urgent pleading	68
5692789828	Discretion	The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid social embarrassment or distress	69
5692789829	Rhapsody	Highly emotional literary work or effusively passionate discourse,	70
5692789830	Maverick	A lone dissenter, as an intellectual , artist, or politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates	71
5692789831	Noncommittal	Refusing commitment to a particular opinion or course of action; not revealing what one feels or thinks	72
5692789832	Truism	Undoubted or self evident truth, esp. one that is too obvious to mention	73
5692789833	Understatement	A form of irony in which something is intentionally represented as less than it is: "Hank Aaron was a pretty good ball player."	74
5692789834	Begging the question	If one's premises entail one's conclusion, and one's premises are questionable, one is said to beg the question.	75
5692789835	Jargon	Unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing	76
5692789836	Colloquial	Familiar, ordinary	77
5692789837	Lunacy	Insanity, mental disorder	78
5692789838	Winnowing	To drive or blow away by fanning	79
5692789839	Luxuriated	To enjoy oneself without stint; revel: to luxuriate in newly acquired wealth	80
5692789840	Stifling	Suffocating; oppressively close	81
5692789841	Dissemination	Spreading widely	82
5692789842	Loquacious	Talkative, gregarious	83
5692789843	Partisanship	People loyal only to a your affiliated party	84
5692789844	Mended	To remove or correct defects	85
5692789845	Nurturant	Warm & affectionate physical & emotional support & care	86
5692789846	Ashtray	Receptacle for tobacco ashes of smokers	87
5692789847	Hors d'oeuvres	A small bit of appetizing food, as spicy meat, fish, cheese, or a preparation of chopped or cream cheese	88
5692789848	Adherence	Steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment	89
5692789849	Enumerating	To mention separately as if in counting; name one by one	90
5692789850	Juxtapose	To place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast	91
5692789851	Amorphous	Without shape	92
5692789852	Concession	Admitting in someone's argument	93
5692789853	Covetousness	Inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions	94
5692789854	Ancillary	Subordinate; subsidiary	95
5692789855	Reproach	Disapproval	96
5692789856	Lucid	Easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible	97
5692789857	Plosive	Explosive	98
5692789858	Understatement	Under exaggeration of a statement	99
5692789859	Immolation	By fire	100
5693239286	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language	101
5693239287	Diction	The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing	102
5693239288	Tone	The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc	103
5693239289	Imagery	Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work	104
5693239290	Inclusion	The action or state of including or being included within a group of structure	105
5693239291	Exclusion	The process or state of excluding or being excluded	106
5693239292	Lexicographer	Writer of dictionaries	107
5693239293	Lofty	Elevated, at a high level	108
5693239294	Pedestrian	Basic	109
5693239295	Mackerel	A food fish, "Scomber scombrsus", of the North Atlantic, having way cross markings on the back	110
5693239296	Influx	Act of flowing in	111
5693239297	Ostracize	To exclude, by general consent, from society	112
5693239298	Rapture	Ecstatic joy or delight	113
5693239299	Soufflé	A murmuring or blowing sound heard on auscultation	114
5693239300	Auscultation	Act of listening, either directly or through a stethoscope or other instruments, to sounds within the body as a method of diagnosis	115
5693239301	Opining	Verb form of opinion	116
5693239302	Logical argument	Structured evidence	117
5693239303	Yield	Business strategy tactic	118
5693239304	Dichotomy	A comparison of 2 specific groups	119
5693239306	Kernel sentence	A simple, active, declarative sentence containing no modifiers or connectives that may be used in making more elaborate sentences	120
5693239307	Ad hominem	An attack against a person rather than their argument	121
5693239308	Paralipsis	The suggestion that much of importance is being omitted	122
5898898908	Commensurate	Equal in worth	123
5898988242	Travail	Work	124
5898988243	Pinnacle	The peak	125
5898988244	Anguish	Something bad happens	126
5898988245	Verities	the state or quality of being true; accordance with fact or reality: to question the verity of a statement.	127
5898988246	Polysyndeton*	The use of many connectives	128
5899095419	Maudlin	Self pitying or tearfully sentimental	129
5899095420	Derisive	characterized by or expressing derision; contemptuous; mocking: derisive heckling.	130
5899095421	Scholarly	of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits	131
5899095423	Melancholy	a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.	132
5929044639	Disquisition	a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed; dissertation.	133
5929044640	Propitious	presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.	134
5929044641	Antiquated	continued from, resembling, or adhering to the past; old-fashioned: antiquated attitudes.	135
5929044642	Eloquence	the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness.	136
5929044643	Forbearance	an abstaining from the enforcement of a right.	137
5929044644	Jaded	dulled or satiated by overindulgence: a jaded appetite.	138
5929044645	Caustic	Harsh form of sarcasm	139
5964804539	Congenital	of or pertaining to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, especially the uterine environment.	140
5964804540	Analogous	having analogy; corresponding in some particular	141
5964804541	Obdurate	unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.	142
5964804542	Spurious	not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.	143
5964804543	Ductile	capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable. Other definitions include gullible.	144
5964804544	Recondite	dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.	145
5964804545	Gaudy	brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage.	146
5965071873	Enervating	to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.	147
5965071874	Ardently	having, expressive of, or characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent: an ardent vow; ardent love.	148
5965071875	Curmudgeonly	a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person.	149
5965071876	Punctilious	extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.	150
5965071877	Poignant	keen or strong in mental appeal: a subject of poignant interest.	151
5965071878	Guffaw	a loud, unrestrained burst of laughter.	152
5965071879	Platitudes	a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.	153
5965071880	Plethoric	overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.	154
5965071881	Sumptuous	entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.	155
5965071882	Garnitures	something that garnishes; decoration; adornment.	156
5965314615	Perfidious	deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.	157
5965314616	Nascent	beginning to exist or develop: the nascent republic.	158
5965314617	Perpetuity	endless or indefinitely long duration or existence; eternity.	159
5965314618	Transient	not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory.	160
5965314619	Quintessential	of or pertaining to the most perfect embodiment of something: the quintessential performance of the Brandenburg Concertos.	161
5965314620	Innocuous	not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.	162
5965314621	Subliminal	existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual: a subliminal stimulus; subliminal advertising.	163
6016369905	Ardor	enthusiasm or passion.	164
6016369906	Ameba	a single-celled animal that catches food and moves about by extending fingerlike projections of protoplasm. Amoebas are either free-living in damp environments or parasitic.	165
6026254822	Egregious	Most serious mistake	166
6030227531	Lascivious	(of a person, manner, or gesture) feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire. "he gave her a lascivious wink" synonyms:	167
6081832718	Pernicious	Viscous	168
6590485315	Infinitesimal	Infinitely small	169
6590485316	Extemporizing	To compose, produce, perform	170
6590485317	Audible	Able to be heard	171
6590485318	Vigil	A period of staying awake	172
6590485319	Settee	Seat for 2 or more people	173
6590485320	Velvet	A fabric of silk, acetate	174
6590532682	Turbulent	Conflict, disorder, confusion	175
6590532683	Feebly	Lacking strength or force	176
6590532684	Ether	Highly volatile chemical	177
6590532685	Uninflected	No distinction in words	178
6590532686	Glinted	Give out or reflect small flashes of light	179
6590532687	Rotogravure	Printing system using rotary press	180
6590532688	Anon	Soon	181
6590532689	Libel	False statement that was published	182
6590532690	Peremptory	Not open to appeal	183
6590532691	Peremptorily	Insisting on immediate attention, obedience	184