AP English Literature Flashcards
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| 5295981490 | abjure | Give up, renounce; repudiate, recant, or shun (especially formally or under oath) |  | 0 |
| 5295982489 | abrogate | (v.) to repeal, cancel, declare null and void |  | 1 |
| 5295983615 | abstemious | (adj.) moderate, sparing (as in eating and drinking); characterized by abstinence and self-discipline |  | 2 |
| 5295986187 | acumen | Sharpness of insight Mental keenness Mental sharpness ability to discern or discriminate; shrewdness Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight |  | 3 |
| 5295986210 | auspicious | Favorable Favorable, fortunate Signaling favorable or promising results |  | 4 |
| 5295990395 | belie | Contradict; give a false impression |  | 5 |
| 5295992226 | bellicose | Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight. |  | 6 |
| 5295993240 | churlish | Rude boorish; rude; N. churl: boor; yahoo (adj.) lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude |  | 7 |
| 5295999222 | deleterious | Harmful (adj.) harmful, injurious |  | 8 |
| 5296000320 | diffident | Lacking self-confidence Shy (adj.) shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved |  | 9 |
| 5296015182 | enervate | To weaken to reduce in strength (v) weaken, tire To weaken |  | 10 |
| 5296024906 | enfranchise | give voting rights (v.) to grant the vote to (The Nineteenth Amendment enfranchised women.) admit to the rights of citizenship (especially the right to vote); CF. franchise |  | 11 |
| 5296026413 | epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight Revelation A sudden realization |  | 12 |
| 5296027551 | evanescent | (adj.) vanishing, soon passing away; light and airy (adj.) fleeting, momentary (My joy at getting promoted was evanescent because I discovered that I would have to work much longer hours in a less friendly office.) tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |  | 13 |
| 5296030898 | expurgate | to censor (v.) to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to cleanse, purify Censor; remove objectionable or offensive parts (v.) to remove offensive or incorrect parts, usually of a book (The history editors expurgated from the text all disparaging and inflammatory comments about the Republican Party.) |  | 14 |
| 5296034236 | facetious | (adj.) humorous, not meant seriously Joking, humorous, esp. inappropriately; not serious, concerned with frivolous things (adj) joking, humorous, esp. inappropriately; not serious, concerned with frivolous things |  | 15 |
| 5296041026 | fatuous | stupid; foolishly self-satisfied Foolish adj. smugly foolish; complacently stupid |  | 16 |
| 5296043836 | feckless | (adj.) lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable |  | 17 |
| 5296044555 | filibuster | A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue. A lengthy speech designed to delay or kill the vote on a bill; used only in the Senate an action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures. |  | 18 |
| 5296045962 | gauche | (adj.) awkward, lacking in social graces, tactless, clumsy clumsy (in social behavior); coarse and uncouth |  | 19 |
| 5296048183 | hegemony | the domination of one state or group over its allies Domination, authority; influence by one country over others socially, culturally, economically, etc. leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation. |  | 20 |
| 5296049682 | incognito | Disguised in disguise disguised; pretending not to be oneself (adj., adv.) in a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity; (n.) the state of being disguised; a person in disguise with one's identity concealed |  | 21 |
| 5296052151 | incontrovertible | (adj.) unquestionable, beyond dispute Indisputable |  | 22 |
| 5296059838 | inculcate | (v.) to impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly to teach or impress by frequent repetition; to instill |  | 23 |
| 5296062121 | interpolate | to insert; change by adding new words or material (v.) to insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction to insert between other parts or things; to present as an addition or correction |  | 24 |
| 5296064788 | jejune | (adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile adjective: dull; lacking flavor |  | 25 |
| 5296087658 | kowtow | a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission verb: to bow or act in a subservient manne a Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission |  | 26 |
| 5296089568 | loquacious | Talkative Very talkative Extremely talkative (adj.) talkative, wordy; fond of talking talking or tending to talk much or freely; talkative; chattering; babbling; garrulous; wordy. |  | 27 |
| 5296094428 | lugubrious | exaggeratedly mournful sorrowful; mournful; dismal sad; gloomy |  | 28 |
| 5296096364 | obsequious | Overly submissive and eager to please (adj) servile, very compliant, fawning (adj.) Marked by slavish attentiveness; excessively submissive, often for purely self-interested reasons | 29 | |
| 5468737368 | Paradigm | ... (n) model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc. |  | 30 |
| 5468737369 | Precipitous | ... dangerously high or steep |  | 31 |
| 5468737370 | Recapitulate | ... (v.) to review a series of facts; to sum up (v.) - to repeat, reiterate |  | 32 |
| 5468737371 | Subjugate | ... (v.) to conquer by force, bring under complete control |  | 33 |
| 5468737372 | Tempestuous | ... stormy, raging, furious |  | 34 |
| 5468737373 | Unctuous | ... (adj.) Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable |  | 35 |
| 5468737374 | Vehement | ... (adj.) intense, forceful, powerful |  | 36 |
| 5468737375 | Winnow | ... (v.) to get rid of something unwanted, delete; to sift through to obtain what is desirable; to remove the chaff from the wheat by blowing air on it; to blow on, fan |  | 37 |
| 5468737376 | Towdry | ...showy but cheap and of poor quality. | 38 | |
| 5468737377 | Stymie | ... to block; to thwart |  | 39 |
| 5815122718 | circumspect | cautious; aware of potential consequences |  | 40 |
| 5815123770 | efface | (v.) to wipe out; to keep oneself from being noticed |  | 41 |
| 5815124284 | proliferate | To grow or reproduce rapidly |  | 42 |
| 5815125262 | sully | to tarnish; taint (v.) to soil, stain, tarnish, defile, besmirch |  | 43 |
| 5815127219 | abscond | to leave secretly (v.) to run off and hide |  | 44 |
| 5815128544 | intrepid | Fearless fearless; resolutely courageous |  | 45 |
| 5815129283 | paramount | chief in importance, above all others (adj.) greatest in importance, rank, character (It was paramount that the bomb squad disconnect the blue wire before removing the fuse.) |  | 46 |
| 5815129945 | doleful | Sad; dreary Mournful or full of sorrow; causing grief |  | 47 |
| 5815131486 | superfluous | Exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess Additional to what is necessary; extra |  | 48 |
| 5815135372 | exhorbitant | unreasonably high; excessive Excessive |  | 49 |
| 5815135883 | tantalize | (v.) to tease, torment by teasing to torment or tease by showing something desirable while keeping it out of reach |  | 50 |