AP Literature 71-90 Flashcards
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| 1780113492 | augment | To increase or make larger | 0 | |
| 1780113493 | reticent | Inclined to keep silent; reserved | 1 | |
| 1780113494 | incoherent | Not able to be understood; nonsensical | 2 | |
| 1780113495 | heresy | An opinion violently opposed to established beliefs | 3 | |
| 1780113496 | importune | to ask incessantly, beg, nag | 4 | |
| 1780113497 | extol | praise, glorify, or honor | 5 | |
| 1780113498 | enigma | A puzzle, mystery, or riddle | 6 | |
| 1780113499 | provincial | Limited in knowledge of the world; narrow-minded; from a rural area | 7 | |
| 1780113500 | repudiate | To disown, reject, or deny the validity of | 8 | |
| 1780113501 | shibboleth | A set of stories, word, expression, or custom that distinguishes a particular group of persons from all others; a commonplace saying or truism. | 9 | |
| 3081870115 | relegate | To place in a lower position; to assign, refer, turn over; to banish | 10 | |
| 3081870116 | dogmatic | Expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles | 11 | |
| 3081870937 | adament | Firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, obdurate, implacable, inflexible; | 12 | |
| 3081871736 | indolent | Habitually lazy or idle | 13 | |
| 3081871737 | nihilism | The belief that there are no values or morals in the universe | 14 | |
| 3081872585 | ascetic | One who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury | 15 | |
| 3081872586 | elucidate | To clarify, explain | 16 | |
| 3081873369 | complacent | Self-satisfied; smug | 17 | |
| 3081873370 | nefarious | Wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards | 18 | |
| 3081874769 | germane | Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | 19 |