AP Literature Unit 2 Flashcards
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| 4830829143 | Accost | To approach and speak first; to confront in a challenging or aggresive way | 0 | |
| 4830829144 | Animadversion | A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | 1 | |
| 4830829145 | Avid | Desirous or something to the point of greed; intensely eager | 2 | |
| 4830829146 | Brackish | Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink | 3 | |
| 4830829147 | Celerity | Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | 4 | |
| 4830829148 | Devious | Straying or wandering from a straight or djrect course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way | 5 | |
| 4830829149 | Gambit | In chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type | 6 | |
| 4830829150 | Halcyon | A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy golden; prosperous | 7 | |
| 4830829151 | Histrionic | Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | 8 | |
| 4830829152 | Incendiary | Deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife | 9 | |
| 4830829153 | Maelstrom | A whirpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | 10 | |
| 4830829154 | Myopic | Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight of discernment | 11 | |
| 4830829155 | Overt | Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | 12 | |
| 4830829156 | Pejorative | Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | 13 | |
| 4830829157 | Propriety | The state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | 14 | |
| 4830829158 | Sacrilege | Improper or disrespecful treatment of something held sacred | 15 | |
| 4830829159 | Summarily | Without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | 16 | |
| 4830829160 | Suppliant | Asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | 17 | |
| 4830829161 | Talisman | An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | 18 | |
| 4830829162 | Undulate | To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | 19 |