AP Literature Unit 5 Vocabulary Flashcards
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5299561430 | Barrage | heavy attack | 0 | |
5299561431 | Cognizant | aware; conscious | 1 | |
5299561432 | Collusion | collaboration; complicity; conspiracy | 2 | |
5299561433 | Deleterious | harmful, injurious | 3 | |
5299561434 | Hegemony | domination over others (Britain's hegemony over its colonies was threatened once nationalist sentiment began to spread around the world.) | 4 | |
5299561435 | Paradigm | a model or example | 5 | |
5299561436 | Unctuous | insincerely polite | 6 | |
5299561437 | Urbane | sophisticated; refined; elegant | 7 | |
5299561438 | Ambulatory | able to walk | 8 | |
5299561439 | Churlish | lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude | 9 | |
5299561440 | Diffident | lacking self-confidence; shy | 10 | |
5299561441 | Ennui | boredom | 11 | |
5299561442 | Inscrutable | beyond comprehension or examination | 12 | |
5299561443 | prognosticate | to predict | 13 | |
5299561444 | Schism | a formal split within a religious organization; any division or separation of a group or organization into hostile factions | 14 |