AP Literature Unit 2 Flashcards

33591023	accost	(v) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way	0
33591024	accost	synonyms: buttonhole, approach, confront	1
33591025	accost	antonyms: evade, avoid, shun	2
33591026	animadversion	(n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval	3
33591027	animadversion	synonyms: rebuke, reproof	4
33591028	animadversion	antonyms: praise, compliment	5
33591029	avid	(adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager	6
33591030	avid	synonyms: keen, enthusiastic, grasping	7
33591031	avid	antonyms: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic	8
33591032	brackish	(adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink	9
33591033	brackish	synonyms: briny, saline	10
33591034	brackish	antonyms: fresh, clear, sweet	11
33591035	celerity	(n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action	12
33591036	celerity	synonyms: promptness, alacrity, speed	13
33591037	celerity	antonyms: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness	14
33591038	devious	(adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way	15
33591039	devious	synonyms: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful	16
33591040	devious	antonyms: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard	17
33591041	gambit	(n) in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type	18
33591042	gambit	synonyms: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver	19
33591043	halcyon	(n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher	20
33591044	halcyon	(adj) of or relating to the bird; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent	21
33591045	halcyon	synonyms: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy	22
33591046	halcyon	antonyms: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous	23
33591047	histrionic	(adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic	24
33591048	histrionic	synonyms: affected, stagy	25
33591049	histrionic	antonyms: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued	26
33591050	incendiary	(adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion	27
33591051	incendiary	(n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife	28
33591052	incendiary	synonyms: inflammatory, provocative, firebrand	29
33591053	incendiary	antonyms: soothing, quieting, peacemaker	30
33591054	maelstrom	(n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction	31
33591055	maelstrom	synonyms: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult	32
33591056	myopic	(adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment	33
33591057	myopic	synonym: shortsighted	34
33591058	myopic	antonym: farsighted	35
33591059	overt	(adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized	36
33591060	overt	synonyms: clear, obvious, manifest, patent	37
33591061	overt	antonyms: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed	38
33591062	pejorative	(adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling	39
33591063	pejorative	antonyms: complimentary, ameliorative	40
33591064	propriety	(n) the state of being proper, appropriateness	41
33591065	propriety	(pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable	42
33591066	propriety	synonyms: fitness, correctness, decorum	43
33591067	propriety	antonyms: unseemliness, inappropriateness	44
33591068	sacrilege	(n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred	45
33591069	sacrilege	synonyms: desecration, profanation, defilement	46
33591070	summarily	(adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely	47
33591071	summarily	synonyms: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly	48
33591072	suppliant	(adj) asking humbly and earnestly	49
33591073	suppliant	(n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor	50
33591074	talisman	(n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish	51
33591075	undulate	(v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form	52
33591076	undulate	synonyms: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall	53