AP Literature Vocabulary 1-60 Flashcards

6266808641	clandestine	carried out in a secretive manner	0
6266808642	doggerel	crudely or loosely styled writing for comic effect	1
6266808643	enjambment	running one sentence from one line of poetry to the next line	2
6266808644	epoch	a distinct period of history marked by memorable events	3
6266808645	farcical	ridiculously or absurdly comedic	4
6266808646	fecund	fertile (literally) or intellectually productive (figuratively)	5
6266808647	loquacious	very talkative	6
6266808648	lugubrious	extremely sad or gloomy	7
6266808649	pedantic	overly focused on or knowledgeable about narrow and trivial matters	8
6266808650	peremptory	cutting off debate; admitting of no contradiction	9
6266808651	paramount	of greatest importance	10
6266808652	pallid	pale; sickly	11
6266808653	puissant	powerful; strong	12
6266808654	anachronism	something that is represented in as existing in a period of history in which it didn't actually exist; out of place in time; outdated	13
6266808655	garish	overly decorated or showy; very gaudy	14
6266808656	virtuoso	a person with great skill in one of the fine arts, especially music	15
6266808657	dirge	a slow, sad song or poem that expresses grief, especially for the dead; a funeral hymn	16
6266808658	superfluous	unnecessary or excessive	17
6266808659	extenuate	to attempt to lessen the seriousness of an offense by giving an excuse	18
6266808660	pernicious	causing great injury, destruction, or ruin	19
6266808661	sagacious	wise	20
6266808662	requiem	a funeral Mass in the Catholic church or any hymn or dirge composed for the dead (often used metaphorically)	21
6266808663	vivify	to bring to life, sharpen, quicken	22
6266808664	nihilism	1. the total rejection of laws or established institutions, 2. self-destructiveness 3. the philosophical denial of any real existence or the possibility of any objective truth	23
6266808665	deign	to view some action as fitting or in accordance with one's dignity; to condescend	24
6266808666	confabulate	psychological definition - to fill gaps in one's memory with made up information; can also mean to chat	25
6266808667	auspicious	promising success; favorable; a good omen	26
6266808668	guile	crafty or artful deceitfulness; trickery	27
6266808669	insidious	seemingly harmless, but actually dangerous; intended to entrap or beguile	28
6266808670	cloistered	secluded from the world; sheltered, closed in	29
6266808671	cacophony	harsh, jarring sound; dissonance	30
6266808672	chiasmus	the inversion of the second of two parallel phrases, clauses, etc. ("I sailed to Greenland, and then to Europe I flew.")	31
6266808673	dolorous	very sorrowful or sad; mournful; [Archaic] painful	32
6266808674	indefatigable	cannot be tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring	33
6266808675	laconic	brief or terse in speech; using few words	34
6266808676	languid	drooping or weak; without interest, indifferent; sluggish, slow	35
6266808677	laureate	a person on whom honor or distinction is conferred	36
6266808678	mitigate	to make less severe or less painful; to moderate	37
6266808679	obstinate	very stubborn; unreasonably determined to have one's own way; not yielding to reason	38
6266808680	ravish	to seize and carry away forcibly; to rape; [figuratively] to transport with joy or delight; enrapture	39
6266808681	ardent	zealous, passionate; intensely devoted (or even fiercely devoted)	40
6266808682	apotheosis	the elevation of a person to the status of a god (usually used figuratively); OR an exalted example or ideal, a quintessential example of something	41
6266808683	attrition	a reduction or decrease in number or size (often gradual); a wearing down or weakening of resistance due to pressure or harassment	42
6266808684	diffident	lacking confidence in oneself; timid, shy, reserved	43
6266808685	epithet	(positive) a word or phrase added to a person's name to describe some attribute of that person ("Ivan the terrible," "Catherine the Great"); (negative) a term of abuse, contempt, or hostility (e.g. racial slurs)	44
6266808686	iconoclast	(literally) a person who destroys objects of worship (icons); most often used now to describe someone who attacks or seeks to overthrow cherished traditions, popular beliefs, or traditional institutions	45
6266808687	lassitude	weariness of body or mind due to stress; listlessness, languor, lack of energy	46
6266808688	panegyric	a lofty oration or writing in praise of a person or thing; also called a eulogy or encomium	47
6266808689	zenith	the highest point or state of something; the culmination; (scientific) the highest visible point in the sky directly above the observer	48
6266808690	convalescence	the period of recovery after an illness	49
6266808691	ardor	enthusiasm or passion	50
6266808692	coy	shy, modest; sometimes can have the connotation of also being flirtatious (i.e. "playing hard to get")	51
6266808693	capricious	characterized by sudden, inexplicable changes without evident reason; whimsical, arbitrary	52
6266808694	admonition	a cautionary warning or advice; a gentle reproof intended to prevent future mistakes	53
6266808695	discursive	1. passing aimlessly from one subject to another; wordy and prone to digression 2. proceeding through reasoning rather than through intuition	54
6266808696	discriminating	able to detect subtle differences; having refined tastes; (negative) inappropriately or unfairly treating two people differently	55
6266808697	hackneyed	cliche, commonplace, banal, overused (more literally "threadbare" or "worn")	56
6266808698	despondency	a feeling of depression and hopelessness	57
6266808699	supercilious	arrogant, condescending, patronizing	58
6266808700	denigrate	to belittle, demean, or insult	59