AP Literature Vocabulary List Flashcards
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| 5663236763 | Plaintive | ADJ: sad; sorrowful; woebegone |  | 0 |
| 5663236764 | Portentous | ADJ: foreboding; alarming; ominous; portend V: to foreshadow |  | 1 |
| 5663236765 | Semblance | N: resemblance; alikeness; pretense; affinity | 2 | |
| 5663236766 | Penury | N: extreme poverty (penurious: very poor) |  | 3 |
| 5663236767 | Desolate | ADJ: abandoned; bare; bleak; derelict |  | 4 |
| 5663236768 | Ascetic | ADJ: harsh; severe; abstinent; self-sacrificing (also one who is) |  | 5 |
| 5663236769 | Sullen | ADJ: upset; fretful; gloomy |  | 6 |
| 5663236770 | Peremptory | ADJ: overbearing; authoritative; dictatorial; domineering |  | 7 |
| 5663236771 | Soporific | ADJ: boring; dull; causing sleep |  | 8 |
| 5663236772 | Ludicrous | ADJ: absurd; ridiculous; PREPOSTEROUS |  | 9 |
| 5663236773 | Façade | N: false front; guise; pretense; exterior |  | 10 |
| 5663236774 | Approbation | N: approval; consent; endorsement |  | 11 |
| 5663236775 | Interminable | ADJ: everlasting; incessant; never-ending |  | 12 |
| 5663236776 | Calumny | N: a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something; slander; a damaging lie |  | 13 |
| 5663236777 | Acquiesce | V: to yield; to comply; to accede |  | 14 |
| 5663236778 | Propitious | ADJ: favorable; fortunate; good |  | 15 |
| 5663236779 | Venerate | V: to revere; to admire; to esteem (veneration: respect) |  | 16 |
| 5663236780 | Phlegmatic | ADJ: indifferent; lifeless; dull; "blah" |  | 17 |
| 5663236781 | Enigma | N: a puzzle; a mystery (enigmatic: mysterious; puzzling) |  | 18 |
| 5663236782 | Deprecate | V: to belittle; to condemn; to put down (verbally) (DISCOMMEND) |  | 19 |
| 5663236783 | Noxious | ADJ: deadly; injurious; dangerous |  | 20 |
| 5663236784 | Assiduous | ADJ: hard-working; persevering; SEDULOUS (N: assiduity) |  | 21 |
| 5663236785 | Solicitous | ADJ: concerned; attentive; mindful |  | 22 |
| 5663236786 | Fastidious | ADJ: fussy; picky; METICULOUS |  | 23 |
| 5663236787 | Insipid | ADJ: dull; uninteresting; mundane | 24 | |
| 5663236788 | Inveterate | ADJ: customary; deep-rooted; habitual |  | 25 |
| 5663236789 | Enervate | V: to fatigue; to weaken; to VITIATE |  | 26 |
| 5663236790 | Trepidation | N: fear; anxiety; uneasiness |  | 27 |
| 5663236791 | Intrepid | ADJ: brave; heroic; audacious |  | 28 |
| 5663236792 | Evince | V: to show clearly; to prove |  | 29 |
| 5663236793 | Indefatigable | ADJ: tireless; determined; diligent |  | 30 |
| 5663236794 | Insuperable | ADJ: hopeless; impossible to overcome |  | 31 |
| 5663236795 | Engender | V: to cause to happen; to beget; to generate |  | 32 |
| 5663236796 | Capricious | ADJ: erratic; flighty; given to whims; IRRESOLUTE; IMPETUOUS |  | 33 |
| 5663236797 | Countenance | N: outward appearance; PHYSIOGNOMY |  | 34 |
| 5663236798 | Conjecture | N:a guess V: to guess |  | 35 |
| 5663236799 | Inexorable | ADJ: restless; uncompromising; adamant |  | 36 |
| 5663236800 | Sardonic | ADJ: bitterly sarcastic; biting |  | 37 |
| 5663236801 | Impetuous | ADJ: impulsive; rash; hasty; CAPRICIOUS |  | 38 |
| 5663236802 | Equivocal | ADJ: doubtful; uncertain; dubious; evasive |  | 39 |
| 5663236803 | Transitory | ADJ: temporary; fleeting; EPHEMERAL |  | 40 |
| 5663236804 | Ephemeral | ADJ: temporary; fleeting; TRANSITORY |  | 41 |
| 5663236805 | Obscure | ADJ: cryptic; complicated; confusing V: to confuse; to hide |  | 42 |
| 5663236806 | Sanguine | ADJ: happy; optimistic; hopeful |  | 43 |
| 5663236807 | Prodigal | ADJ: wasteful; excessive; PROFLIGATE |  | 44 |
| 5663236809 | Profligate | ADJ: shamelessly immoral; reckless; wanton; PRODIGAL |  | 45 |
| 5663236810 | Languid | ADJ: lacking in spirit or interest; indifferent; listless |  | 46 |
| 5663236811 | Sententious | ADJ: given to excessive moralizing; preachy; pithy; short and sweet |  | 47 |
| 5663236812 | Disposition | N: frame of mind; mood; attitude; personality |  | 48 |
| 5663236813 | Apoplexy | N: stroke; seazure (medical condition) |  | 49 |
| 5663236814 | Effulence | N: outfloq; emission; wordiness; VERBOSITY | 50 | |
| 5663236815 | Indemnity | N: payment; compensation |  | 51 |
| 5663236816 | Puerile | ADJ: immature; juvenile; CALLOW |  | 52 |
| 5663236817 | Querulous | ADJ: grouchy; whily; hard-to-please |  | 53 |
| 5663236818 | Picayune | ADJ: measily; of little value; worthless |  | 54 |
| 5663236819 | Capacious | ADJ: spacious; roomy |  | 55 |
| 5663236820 | Ascertain | V: to find out for sure; to verify |  | 56 |
| 5663236821 | Fervent | ADJ: intense; enthusiastic; avid; ARDENT |  | 57 |
| 5663236822 | Irascible | ADJ: irritable; easily angered; BILIOUS; PETULANT; QUERULOUS |  | 58 |
| 5663236823 | Imbibe | V: to consume; to swallow; to ingest; to absorb |  | 59 |
| 5663236824 | Dross | N: trash; dregs; refuse |  | 60 |
| 5663236825 | Physiognomy: | N: outward appearance; COUNTENANCE |  | 61 |
| 5663236826 | Confabullation | N: conversation; discussion; PALAVER |  | 62 |
| 5663236827 | Noisome | ADJ: offensive; disgusting |  | 63 |
| 5663236828 | Conciliate | V: to calm; to satisfy |  | 64 |
| 5663236829 | Automaton | N: a robot; gadget |  | 65 |
| 5663236830 | Misconstrue | V: to interpret incorrectly; to misjudge |  | 66 |
| 5663236831 | Propinquity | N: proximity- nearness in place-; kinship- nearness of relation- |  | 67 |
| 5663236832 | Asperity | N: bitterness; irritability; meanness |  | 68 |
| 5663236833 | Tyro | N: beginner; newcomer |  | 69 |
| 5663236834 | Panegyric | N: a speech praising someone, often dead; an encomium |  | 70 |
| 5663236835 | Assuage | V: to cease; to lessen; to conciliate |  | 71 |
| 5663236836 | Invidious | ADJ: offensive; hateful; full of enmity |  | 72 |
| 5663236837 | Effrontery | N: shameless boldness; audacity; impudence |  | 73 |