AP Literature Flashcards

2320743136	1. Acrimony	sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition	0
2320743137	2. Adder	any of various other venomous or harmless snakes resembling the viper	1
2320743138	3. Admonition	counsel, advice, or caution	2
2320743139	4. Affront	a personally offensive act or word	3
2320743140	5. Alacrity	cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness	4
2320743141	6. Alliteration	the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid	5
2320743142	7. Allusion	a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication	6
2320743143	8. Analogous	a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based	7
2320743144	9. Animosity	a feeling of strong dislike, ill will, or enmity that tends to display itself in action	8
2320743145	10. Antebellum	before or existing before a war, especially the American Civil War; prewar	9
2320743146	11. Apathetic	having or showing little or no emotion	10
2320743147	12. Apostrophe	a digression in the form of an address to someone not present	11
2320743148	13. Arduous	requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult	12
2320743149	14. Arrogate	assume or appropriate to oneself without right	13
2320743150	15. Assonance	resemblance of sounds	14
2320743151	16. Assuages	to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate	15
2320743152	17. Augment	to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase	16
2320743153	18. Avail	to be of use or value to; profit; advantage	17
2320743154	19. Barmaid	a woman who bartends	18
2320743155	20. Barmy	containing or resembling barm; frothy	19
2320743156	21. Befuddlement	to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments	20
2320743157	22. Beguiles	to take away from by cheating or deceiving	21
2320743158	23. Belligerence	a warlike or aggressively hostile nature, condition, or attitude, an act of carrying on war; warfare	22
2320743159	24. Benevolent	characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings	23
2320743160	25. Berate	to scold	24
2320743161	26. Beseech	to beg eagerly for	25
2320743162	27. Bewildered	completely puzzled or confused; perplexed	26
2320743163	28. Briar	an ericaceous shrub, having a hard woody root	27
2320743164	29. Buoyant	capable of keeping a body afloat, as a liquid	28
2320743165	30. Camaraderie	comradeship; good-fellowship.	29
2320743166	31. Cipher	something of no value or importance	30
2320743167	32. Conflagration	a destructive fire, usually an extensive one	31
2320743168	33. Conjecture	an opinion or theory so formed or expressed; guess; speculation	32
2320743169	34. Conjuration	the act of calling on or invoking a sacred name	33
2320743170	35. Covetous	inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy	34
2320743171	36. Craven	cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous	35
2320743172	37. Cuckold	the husband of an unfaithful wife	36
2320743173	38. Culpability	guilt or blame that is deserved	37
2320743174	39. Cupidity	eager or excessive desire, especially to possess something; greed; avarice	38
2320743175	40. Decorum	dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress	39
2320743176	41. Deity	Divine character or nature, especially that of the Supreme Being; divinity	40
2320743177	42. Deride	to laugh at in scorn or contempt	41
2320743178	43. Deriding	to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock.	42
2320743179	44. Despondent	feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom	43
2320743180	45. Despondent	feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom	44
2320743181	46. Despotic	a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; autocrat.	45
2320743182	47. Dirge	funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead	46
2320743183	48. Discordant	being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous	47
2320743184	49. Dispel	to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate	48
2320743185	50. Dolorous	full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful	49
2320743186	51. Duplicity	deceitfulness in speech or conduct	50
2320743187	52. Dwindling	to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away	51
2320743188	53. Elusiveness	eluding or failing to allow for or accommodate a clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define	52
2320743189	54. Embittered	to make bitter; cause to feel bitterness	53
2320743190	55. Emphatic	the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others	54
2320743191	56. Epiphany	a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something	55
2320743192	57. Euphemism	the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt	56
2320743193	58. Exculpate	to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate	57
2320743194	59. Extant	in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost	58
2320743195	60. Facet	a similar surface cut on a fragment of rock by the action of water, windblown sand	59
2320743196	61. Falter	to speak hesitatingly or brokenly	60
2320743197	62. Fastidious	hard to please	61
2320743198	63. Faulty parallelism	agreement in direction, tendency, or character	62
2320743199	64. Fealty	fidelity; faithfulness	63
2320743200	65. Finitude	to be in a measureable state	64
2320743201	66. Foment	to instigate or foster; promote the growth or development of	65
2320743202	67. Foolhardy	recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome	66
2320743203	68. Fractious	readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome	67
2320743204	69. Futile	incapable of producing any result	68
2320743205	70. Gaunt	extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.	69
2320743206	71. Gridiron	a utensil consisting of parallel metal bars on which to broil meat or other food.	70
2320743207	72. Guerdon	a reward, recompense, or requital	71
2320743208	73. Hare	any rodentlike mammal of the genus Lepus	72
2320743209	74. Hedgerows	a row of bushes or trees forming a hedge	73
2320743210	75. Hefted	weight; heaviness	74
2320743211	76. Hubris	excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance	75
2320743212	77. Idiosyncratic	something peculiar to an individual	76
2320743213	78. Idolatry	religious worship of idols	77
2320743214	79. Impede	to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder	78
2320743215	80. Imperatives	of the nature of or expressing a command; commanding	79
2320743216	81. Impertinent	intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions	80
2320743217	82. Imploration	to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy	81
2320743218	83. Inarticulate	lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech	82
2320743219	84. Incertitude	uncertainty or doubtfulness	83
2320743220	85. Incipient	beginning to exist or appear	84
2320743221	86. Indelible	making marks that cannot be erased, removed	85
2320743222	87. Ineffable	incapable of being expressed or described in words	86
2320743223	88. Iniquity	a violation of right or duty; wicked act; sin	87
2320743224	89. Invasive	characterized by or involving invasion	88
2320743225	90. Jocular	given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting; waggish; facetious	89
2320743226	91. Kinsman	a blood relative, especially a male	90
2320743227	92. Locale	the scene or setting, as of a novel, play, or motion picture	91
2320743228	93. Maudlin	tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental	92
2320743229	94. Melioration	semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning	93
2320743230	95. Metonymy	a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related	94
2320743231	96. Metonymy	a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related	95
2320743232	97. Misnomer	a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation. an error in naming a person or thing.	96
2320743233	98. Myopic	pertaining to or having myopia; nearsighted	97
2320743234	99. Noisome	offensive or disgusting, as an odor	98
2320743235	100. Noosed	a loop with a running knot, as in a snare, lasso, or hangman's halter, that tightens as the rope is pulled	99
2320743236	101. Novice	a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed	100
2320743237	102. Omniscient	having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things	101
2320743238	103. Onerous	burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship	102
2320743239	104. Paradox	a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth	103
2320743240	105. Parsimonious	frugal or stingy	104
2320743241	106. Pathetic Fallacy	the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings, as in the smiling skies; the angry sea.	105
2320743242	107. Pathetic Fallacy	the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings	106
2320743243	108. Pernicious	causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful	107
2320743244	109. Pester	to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble	108
2320743245	110. Pious	having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations	109
2320743246	111. Pragmatic	of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations	110
2320743247	112. Premonitory	giving premonition; serving to warn beforehand	111
2320743248	113. Privation	lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life	112
2320743249	114. Purist	strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.	113
2320743250	115. Query	a question; an inquiry	114
2320743251	116. Rampant	violent in action or spirit; raging; furious	115
2320743252	117. Ravenous	extremely hungry; famished; voracious	116
2320743253	118. Reiteration	to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively	117
2320743254	119. Retched	to make efforts to vomit	118
2320743255	120. Reverberates	to rebound or recoil	119
2320743256	121. Reverie	a daydream	120
2320743257	122. Robust	strong and healthy; vigorous	121
2320743258	123. Sagacity	acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment	122
2320743259	124. Sanctify	to purify or free from sin	123
2320743260	125. Sardonic	characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering	124
2320743261	126. Scrutiny	surveillance; close and continuous watching or guarding	125
2320743262	127. Shawl	a square, triangular, or oblong piece of wool or other material worn, especially by women	126
2320743263	128. Shroud	a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial	127
2320743264	129. Solicits	to seek to influence or incite to action, especially unlawful or wrong action	128
2320743265	130. Stalwart	strongly and stoutly built; sturdy and robust	129
2320743266	131. Stigma	a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation	130
2320743267	132. Stoic	of or relating to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity	131
2320743268	133. Subliminal	existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness	132
2320743269	134. Subliminal	existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness	133
2320743270	135. Sustenance	nourishment, means of livelihood.	134
2320743271	136. Sycophant	a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite	135
2320743272	137. Synaesthesia	a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color	136
2320743273	138. Throes	any violent convulsion or struggle	137
2320743274	139. Traitorous	having the character of a traitor; treacherous; perfidious	138
2320743275	140. Treacherous	deceptive, untrustworthy, or unreliable	139
2320743276	141. Ubiquity	the state or capacity of being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresence	140
2320743277	142. Unrequited	not returned or reciprocated	141
2320743278	143. Vicissitudes	a change or variation occurring in the course of something	142
2320743279	144. Weirs	a small dam in a river or stream	143