AP Language Flashcards
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4856614323 | Pragmatic | Dealing with things sensibly and realistically, based on practicality vs theoretical | 0 | |
4856617395 | Sycophant | A person who praises powerful people in order to get their approval. | 1 | |
4856633180 | Semantics | The meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text | 2 | |
4856645423 | Calamitious | Involving calamity; catastrophic; disastrous | 3 | |
4900951584 | Efface | Erase, Eradicate, Destroy | 4 | |
4900963784 | Blunt | Not sharp; straight forward | 5 | |
4900968910 | Forthright | (of a person or their manner or speech) direct and outspoken; straightforward and honest | 6 | |
4900968911 | Impulcive | Acting or done without forethought; acting on impulse | 7 | |
4900973215 | Subtle | (especially of a change or distinction) so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe | 8 | |
4960505250 | Cynical | Believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity | 9 | |
5348854957 | Fervent | Having of Showing intesity | 10 | |
5348859371 | Predilection | Preference | 11 | |
5348861398 | Lugubrious | Looking or acting sad | 12 | |
5348865132 | Dissemble | Hiding your true feelings | 13 | |
5378484836 | Formidable | Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable | 14 | |
5378484837 | Pretense | An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true | 15 | |
5378487733 | Arbitrate | (of an independent person or body) reach an authoritative judgment or settlement | 16 |