AP Language & Conposition Flashcards
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| 4955607784 | Abashed | Ashamed or embarressed; disconcerned | 0 | |
| 4955607785 | Abhorring | To regard with extreme repugnance or averison; detest utterly; loathe; abominate | 1 | |
| 4955607786 | Abstruse | Difficult to understand | 2 | |
| 4955607787 | Absurd | Rediculous; silly | 3 | |
| 4955607788 | Acerbic | Harsh or servere, as of temper or expression | 4 | |
| 4955607789 | Admiring | To regard with wonder, pleasure or approval | 5 | |
| 4955607790 | Admonishing | Cautioning, advising, or counseling against somehing; reprobing or scolding, especially in a mild and good willed manner; reminding | 6 | |
| 4955607791 | Adoring | To regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor | 7 | |
| 4955607792 | Affectionate | Showing, indicating, or characterized by affecting or live; fondly tender | 8 | |
| 4955607793 | Ambiguous | Open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations | 9 | |
| 4955607794 | Ambivalent | Uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneoud desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things | 10 | |
| 4955607795 | Amused | Plesurably entertained, occupied, or diverted | 11 | |
| 4955607796 | Annoyed | To cause slight irritation to (another) by troublesome, often repeated acts | 12 | |
| 4955607797 | Antagonistic | Acting in opposition; opposing; esp. matually/ hostile; unfriendly | 13 | |
| 4955607798 | Anxious | Full of mental distress or uneasiness because of fear of danger or misfortune; greatly worried; silcition/ earnestly desirous, eager | 14 | |
| 4955607799 | Apathetic | Having or showing little to no emotion/ not interested or concerned; indifferent or unresponsive | 15 | |
| 4955607800 | Apologetic | Containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury | 16 | |
| 4955607801 | Appreciative | Feeling or expressive of gratitude | 17 | |
| 4955607802 | Apprehensive | Uneasy of fearful about something that might happen | 18 | |
| 4955607803 | Approving | To speak of think favorably of; pronouce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably | 19 | |
| 4955607804 | Ardent | Characterized by intense feeling; passionate; fervent; intensly devoted; eager, or enthusiastic; zealous; vehement; fierce | 20 | |
| 4955607805 | Arrogant | Making claims or pretensions to surperior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud | 21 | |
| 4955607806 | Audacious | Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless | 22 | |
| 4955607807 | Authoritarian | Having an air of authority; accustomed to exercising authority; positive; peremptory; dictionorial | 23 | |
| 4955607808 | Baffled | To confuse, bewilder, or perplex | 24 | |
| 4955607809 | Bantering | Good-humored, playful conversation | 25 | |
| 4955607810 | Belligerent | Warlike; given to waging war | 26 | |
| 4955607811 | Bemused | Bewildered of confused/ lost in thought; preoccupied | 27 | |
| 4955607812 | Benevolent | Characterized by or expressing goodwill ot kindly feelings | 28 | |
| 4955607813 | Bewildered | Completely puzzled of confused; perplexed | 29 | |
| 4955607814 | Biting | Nipping; smarting; keen/cutting; sarcastic | 30 | |
| 4955607815 | Bitter | Having harsh, dusagreeably acrid taste, characterized by intense antagonsim or hostility/ hard to admit or accept | 31 |