AP Lang Language Words Flashcards

6440310758	Artificial	Not natural or real; made, produced, or done to seem natural	0
6440310759	Bombastic	High sounding, but has little meaning; pretentious or pompous sounding	1
6440310760	Colloquial	to speak in an informal way	2
6440310761	Concrete	relation to specific people, things, or actions rather than general ideas	3
6440310762	Connotative	relating to an idea or quality that a word makes you think about in addition to its meaning	4
6440310763	Cultured	having or showing good education and manners	5
6440310764	Detached	separating from something larger	6
6440310765	Emotional	relating to emotions	7
6440310766	Esoteric	hard to understand for one of normal intelligence; only understood by members of a certain group	8
6440310767	Euphemistic	pleasant word or phrase used instead of one that is unpleasant or offensive	9
6440310768	Figurative	used with a meaning that is different from the basic meaning and that expresses an idea in an interesting way	10
6440310769	Formal	involving outward form, structure, or arrangements of elements rather than content; according with established custom	11
6440310770	Grotesque	extremely unusual, ugly, or distorted	12
6440310771	Homespun	plain and simple	13
6440310772	Idiomatic	relation to expressions that cannot be understood from the meaning of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own	14
6440310773	Informal	friendly or relaxed quality	15
6440310774	Insipid	dull or boring	16
6440310775	Jargon	special terms relating to a certain field; confused unintelligible language	17
6440310776	Learned	characterized by or associated with learning; used to describe something because of learning or experience	18
6440310777	Literal	ordinary or usual meaning of a word	19
6440310778	Moralistic	having or showing strong opinions about what is right behavior and what is wrong behavior	20
6440310779	Obscure	not well known by most people	21
6440310780	Obtuse	stupid; not able to think clearly or to understand what is obvious	22
6440310781	Ordinary	normal or usual	23
6440310782	Pedantic (2 definitions)	narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned, corrects minor details; unimaginitave, dull	24
6440310783	Picturesque	very pretty or charming; telling about something in a way that makes it very easy to imagine	25
6440310784	Plain	having no pattern or decorations	26
6440310785	Poetic	having a beautiful or graceful quality	27
6440310786	Precise	very accurate and exact; careful to the details	28
6440310787	Provincial	making unjustified or excessive claims; having or showing the unpleasant quality of people; a person of local or restricted interests or outlook; a person lacking urban polish or refinement	29
6440310788	Scholarly	relating to formal study or research	30
6440310789	Sensuous	affecting the senses in a pleasing way	31
6440310790	Simple	not hard to understand	32
6440310791	Slang	words that aren't considered part of the standard vocabulary of a language and that are used very informally	33
6440310792	Symbolic	expressing an idea without using words	34
6440310793	Trite	not effective because of being used too often	35
6440310794	Vulgar	not having or showing good manners	36
6440310795	Amiable	friendly and pleasant	37
6440310796	Amused	make someone laugh or smile; to entertain	38
6440310797	Appreciative	having or showing appreciation	39
6440310798	Authoritative	showing impressive knowledge of a subject	40
6440310799	Benevolent	kind and generous; organized to do good things for others	41
6440310800	Brave	feeling or showing no fear	42
6440310801	Calm	quiet and peaceful state or condition	43
6440310802	Cheerful	showing happiness; willing to do something without complaints	44
6440310803	Cheery	having happy feelings; merry or bright in manner or effect	45
6440310804	Complimentary	expressing praise or admiration for someone or something	46
6440310805	Confident	feeling that you can do something well or succeed at something; certain that something will happen or come true	47
6440310806	Consoling	to try to make someone less sad; to comfort	48
6440310807	Content	pleased and satisfied; not needing more	49
6440310808	Dreamy	pleasant, peaceful, relaxing; having a quality which shows or suggests that you're not noticing what is going on	50
6440310809	Ecstatic	feeling or showing ecstasy; very happy or excited	51
6440310810	Elated	very happy and excited; marked by high spirits	52
6440310811	Elevated	having an intelligent and usually formal tone	53
6440310812	Encouraging	causing a hopeful feeling	54
6440310813	Energetic	involving a lot of effort; showing a lot of energy	55
6440310814	Enthusiastic	strong excitement about something	56
6440310815	Excited	cause enthusiastic feelings in someone; to make someone feel energetic and eager to do something	57
6440310816	Exuberant	very lively, happy, or energetic; exciting in large amounts	58
6440310817	Fanciful	coming from the imagination; unusual and appealing	59
6440310818	Friendly	acting like a friend; kind and helpful; showing support or approval	60
6440310819	Happy		61
6440310820	Hopeful	full of hope	62
6440310821	Impassioned	showing or feeling strong emotions, great warmth, or intensity of feelings	63
6440310822	Jovial	full of joy and happiness; markedly good-humored	64
6440310823	Joyful	full of joy	65
6440310824	Jubilant	very happy, joyful; expressing joy with shouting	66
6440310825	Lighthearted	cheerful or happy nature, not serious; free from care or anxiety	67
6440310826	Loving	showing love; careful and thorough	68
6440310827	Optimistic	belief that good things will happen in the future; belief that this world is the best possible world	69
6440310828	Passionate	expressing strong emotions (sexual or romantic sometimes); capable of, or affected by intense feelings	70
6440310829	Peaceful	quiet and calm, without noise; not involved in violence; untroubled by conflict	71
6440310830	Playful	eager to play, full of energy; showing you're having fun and not being serious	72
6440310831	Pleasant	friendly and likeable; causing a feeling of happiness and pleasure	73
6440310832	Proud	very happy because of something you've done, someone you know, or something you own; showing attitude of people who think they're more important than others	74
6440310833	Relaxed	calm or free from stress, worry, anxiety; informal, but comfortable; not strict or controlled	75
6440310834	Reverent	showing a lot of respect	76
6440310835	Romantic	relating to love between 2 people; thinking about love and doing and saying things to show that you love someone	77
6440310836	Soothing	producing feelings of comfort or relief	78
6440310837	Surprised	feeling caused by something unexpected or unusual; without awareness	79
6440310838	Sweet	gentle, kind, or friendly; generalized term of approval	80
6440310839	Sympathetic	showing concern about someone who is in a bad situation; showing support and sensitivity to others' emotions	81
6440310840	Vibrant	showing great life, activity, energy, bright, loud, giving the sense of life, vigor, and action	82
6440310841	Whimsical	unusual in a playful or amusing way; lightly fanciful	83
6440310842	Accusing	To blame someone for something wrong	84
6440310843	Aggravated	To make someone angry	85
6440310844	Agitated	To disturb or anger someone	86
6440310845	Apathetic	To not showing much emotion	87
6440310846	Arrogant	To have an offensive attitude of superiority	88
6440310847	Audacious	Very confident and daring	89
6440310848	Belligerent	Angry and aggressive	90
6440310849	Bitter	Angry, hurt, or resentful because of one's bad experiences	91
6440310850	Brash	Rude or harsh	92
6440310851	Childish	Lacking maturity	93
6440310852	Choleric	Easily angry	94
6440310853	Coarse	Rude or offensive	95
6440310854	Cold	Lacking affection or warmth feeling	96
6440310855	Condemnatory	Having strong disapproval	97
6440310856	Condescending	Showing that you are more intelligent or better than others	98
6440310857	Contradictory	Information that disagrees with other information	99
6440310858	Critical	Expressing criticism or disapproval	100
6440310859	Desperate	Very upset because of little or no hope	101
6440310860	Disappointed	Feeling unhappy because something was not as good as expected	102
6440310861	Disgruntled	To be unsatisfied or angry	103
6440310862	Disgusted	Strong dislike for something that is unpleasant	104
6440310863	Disinterested	Not influenced by personal feelings, interests, or concerns	105
6440310864	Facetious	Speech meant to be funny but instead regarded as improper	106
6440310865	Harsh	severe or cruel	107
6440310866	Haughty	Insulting attitude of people who think that they are better, smarter, or more important than others	108
6440310867	Hateful	causing or deserving hate	109
6440310868	Hurtful	causing injury or emotional pain	110
6440310869	Indignant	Having anger because of something that is unfair or wrong	111
6440310870	Inflammatory	causing anger	112
6440310871	Insulting	disrespectful or scornfully abusive	113
6440310872	Irritated	Annoyed	114
6440310873	Manipulative	Dishonest control of a situation or person	115
6440310874	Obnoxious	unpleasant in a way that makes people feel offended, annoyed, or disgusted	116
6440310875	Outraged	extremely angered	117
6440310876	Passive	someone who accepts what others do or decide without trying to change anything	118
6440310877	Quarrelsome	ready or likely to argue or disagree	119
6440310878	Shameful	bad enough to make someone ashamed	120
6440310879	Smooth	happening or done without any problems	121
6440310880	Snooty	insulting attitude of people who think that they are better, smarter, or more important than others	122
6440310881	Superficial	concerned only with what is obvious or apparent	123
6440310882	Surly	rude and unfriendly	124
6440310883	Testy	becoming angry or annoyed easily	125
6440310884	Threatening	hostile or deliberately frightening	126
6440310885	Tired	bored or annoyed by something because you have heard it, seen it, done it, etc., for a long time	127
6440310886	Uninterested	not interested	128
6440310887	Wrathful	full of extreme anger	129
6440310888	Bantering	to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner	130
6440310889	Caustic	very harsh and critical	131
6440310890	Comical	causing laughter especially by being unusual or unexpected	132
6440310891	Contemptuous	having deep hatred or disapproval	133
6440310892	Cynical	believing that people are generally selfish and dishonest	134
6440310893	Disdainful	dislike of someone or something you think does not deserve respect	135
6440310894	Droll	having an odd and amusing quality	136
6440310895	Flippant	lacking proper respect or seriousness	137
6440310896	Giddy	playful and silly	138
6440310897	Humorous	causing laughter	139
6440310898	Insolent	rude or impolite	140
6440310899	Ironic	strange or funny because something is different from what you expected	141
6440310900	Irreverent	lack of respect for someone or something that is usually treated with respect	142
6440310901	Joking	something said or done to cause laughter	143
6440310902	Malicious	having or showing a desire to cause harm to another person	144
6440310903	Mock-heroic	imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject.	145
6440310904	Mocking	making fun of someone or something in a cruel way	146
6440310905	Mock-serious	pretending to be serious as a joke	147
6440310906	Partronizing	speaking down to others, acting as though you are smarter, classier, or better than others	148
6440310907	Pompous	speaking or behaving in a formal way because they believe that they are better, smarter, or more important than others	149
6440310908	Quizzical	showing that you find something strange or amusing	150
6440310909	Ribald	referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or unrespectful way	151
6440310910	Ridiculing	making fun of someone or something in a cruel or harsh way	152
6440310911	Sarcastic	using irony in order to mock or convey contempt	153
6440310912	Sardonic	showing that you disapprove of or do not like someone or something; disdainfully or skeptically humorous, derisively mocking	154
6440310913	Satiric	using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc.	155
6440310914	Scornful	feeling or expressing contempt or derision	156
6440310915	Sharp	sudden and quick	157
6440310916	Silly	foolish or stupid	158
6440310917	Taunting	provoke or challenge (someone) with insulting remarks	159
6440310918	Teasing	laugh at and criticize (someone) in a way that is either friendly and playful or cruel and unkind	160
6440310919	Wry	using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor	161
6440310920	Anxious	afraid or nervous	162
6440310921	Apologetic	feeling/showing regret	163
6440310922	Apprehensive	afraid that soemthing bad/unpleasant is going to happen	164
6440310923	Concerned	feeling worry or concern; having an interset/involvement in something	165
6440310924	Confused	unable to understand/think clearly; not clearly organized/expressed	166
6440310925	Dejected	sad bc of failure or loss	167
6440310926	Depressing	feeling sad; economic depression - low growth and few jobs	168
6440310927	Despairing	feeling very sad without hope	169
6440310928	Disturbed	showing signs of mental/emotional illness; worried and unhappy	170
6440310929	Embarrassed	feeling confused/foolish in front of other people	171
6440310930	Fearful	feeling fear	172
6440310931	Foreboding	a feeling that somthing bad is going to happen	173
6440310932	Gloomy	dark; sad, depressed, not hopeful	174
6440310933	Grave	serious/likely to produce a great harm or danger	175
6440310934	Hollow	worthless/useless	176
6440310935	Hopeless	having/feeling no hope; incapable of solution/improvement	177
6440310936	Horrific	havng the power to horrify; appalling, atrocious	178
6440310937	Horror	painful/intense fear, dread, or dismay	179
6440310938	Melancholy	a pensive/thoughtful/sad mood; characterized by depression or bad temper	180
6440310939	Miserable	being distressed/unhappy; inadequate/meager	181
6440310940	Morose	sullen or gloomy	182
6440310941	Mournful	with sorrow or melancholy	183
6440310942	Nervous	easily excited or irritated	184
6440310943	Numb	deviod of emotion/sensation	185
6440310944	Ominous	foreshadowing evil	186
6440310945	Paranoid	suspiciousness; fearful	187
6440310946	Pessimistic	having lack of hope, expecting bad things to happen	188
6440310947	Pitiful	deserving pity or contempt	189
6440310948	Poignant	strong feeling of sadness or regret, painfully affecting the feelings	190
6440310949	Regretful	feeling sad or sorry about something	191
6440310950	Remorseful	apologetic, regretful, repentant	192
6440310951	Resigned	to accept as inevitable, to give up deliberately/quit	193
6440310952	Sad	unhappy	194
6440310953	Serious	thoughtful or subdued; not joking or trifling	195
6440310954	Sober	marked by temperance or seriousness; sensible	196
6440310955	Solemn	very serious or formal, sad; marked by ceremony	197
6440310956	Somber	very sad or serious; gloomy	198
6440310957	Staid	serious, boring, old-fashioned; not joking or playful in mood or manner	199
6440310958	Upset	to trouble mentally/unemotionally; to defeat unexpectedly	200
6440310959	Lugubrious	full of sadness/sorrow in an exaggerated/insincere way	201
6440310960	Admonitory	warning, cautioning	202
6440310961	Allusive	an implied/indirect reference to something	203
6440310962	Baffled	completely confused	204
6440310963	Callous	feeling no emotion/sympathy/concern for others	205
6440310964	Candid	honest and sincere; without bias, prejudice or malice	206
6440310965	Ceremonial	with ceremony; without real power or influence	207
6440310966	Clinical	analytical or coolly dispassionate	208
6440310967	Contemplative	involving deep thought; devoted to religious thought/prayer	209
6440310968	Conventional	common/traditioanl and ordinary, lacking originality	210
6440310969	Didactic	designedto teach people something, preachy and moralistic	211
6440310970	Disbelieving	not believing	212
6440310971	Dramatic	sudden and extreme; attracting attention	213
6440310972	Earnest	serious, intent, sincere	214
6440310973	Expectant	looking forward to something that will happen	215
6440310974	Factual	based on fact	216
6440310975	Fervent	having/showing very strong feelings	217
6440310976	Forthright	clear, honest, direct	218
6440310977	Frivolous	not serious or important	219
6440310978	Histrionic	too emotional or dramatic in a theatrical way	220
6440310979	Humble	not proud or haughty; of low rank	221
6440310980	Incredulous	not able/willing to believe something	222
6440310981	Informative	giving information	223
6440310982	Inquisitive	curious, asking many questions	224
6440310983	Instructive	providing knowledge or instructions	225
6440310984	Intimate	having a very close relationship; to say something in an indirect way; to announce	226
6440310985	Judgemental	judging people too quickly or critically	227
6440310986	Loud	high in volume or showiness	228
6440310987	Lyrical	beautiful or expressive	229
6440310988	Matter-of-Fact	starightforward, unemotional	230
6440310989	Meditative	very thoughtful	231
6440310990	Nostalgic	wistful/yearning for the past	232
6440310991	Objective	without bias or emotion	233
6440310992	Obsequious	marked by fawning attentivess to someone with authority; sucking up	234
6440310993	Patriotic	strong support for your country	235
6440310994	Persuasive	able to persuade/convince	236
6440310995	Pleading	begging	237
6440310996	Pretentious	expressing exaggerated importance/worth/stature	238
6440310997	Provocative	serving to excite or stimulate thought/argument	239
6440310998	Questioning	doubting something	240
6440310999	Reflective	reflecting sound/light, thinking carefully about something	241
6440311000	Reminiscent	reminding you of someone/something else; thinking about the past	242
6440311001	Restrained	showing self-control; not too colorful or fancy	243
6440311002	Seductive	making someone do/want something; allure	244
6440311003	Sentimental	appealing to emotions; v emotional	245
6440311004	Shocking	hard to believe	246
6440311005	Sincere	genuine, without malice	247
6440311006	Unemotional	without emotion	248
6440311007	Urgent	very important and needing immediate attention	249
6440311008	Vexed	annoyed/frustrated or worried	250
6440311009	Wistful	full of yearning/desire tinged with melancholy/sadness	251
6440311010	Zealous	feelin strong and energetic support for	252