AP English Literature and Composition Flashcards
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| 5700733722 | allay | diminish or put at rest (fear, suspicion, or worry). | 0 | |
| 5700733723 | capacious | having a lot of space inside; roomy. | 1 | |
| 5700733724 | didactic | intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive. | 2 | |
| 5700733725 | diurnal | diurnality is a form of plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day, with a period of sleeping, or other inactivity, at night. | 3 | |
| 5700733726 | ignominous | deserving or causing public disgrace or shame. | 4 | |
| 5700733727 | mitigate | make less severe, serious, or painful. | 5 | |
| 5700733728 | palpitate | a sensation that the heart is racing, pounding, fluttering, or skipping a beat, often bothersome, but hardly ever a sign of heart disease. | 6 | |
| 5700733729 | phlegmatic | (of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition. | 7 | |
| 5700733730 | propitious | giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable. | 8 | |
| 5700733731 | prostrate | lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward. | 9 |