AP Literature and Composition Vocabulary Set 2 Flashcards
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| 5131319849 | jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits; cheerful | 0 | |
| 5131328408 | conciliatory | to make (someone) more friendly or less angry; feel better | 1 | |
| 5131330276 | reticent | not willing to tell people about things | 2 | |
| 5131333825 | disdainful | full of dislike or disapproval of someone or something; showing contempt or lack of respect | 3 | |
| 5131343455 | misanthropy | dislike or hatred of humankind | 4 | |
| 5131343456 | fatalistic | the belief that events are determined by an impersonal fate and cannot be changed | 5 | |
| 5131344497 | brusque | talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way | 6 | |
| 5131345851 | cerebral | related to the mind rather than to feelings : intellectual and not emotional | 7 | |
| 5131350997 | sardonic | disapproving of someone and grimly mocking or cynical towards that person | 8 | |
| 5131354455 | wistful | having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing of something from the past | 9 |