AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 5835821184 | Alacrity | Cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness; liveliness or briskness | 0 | |
| 5835821185 | Censure | Strong or vehement expression of disapproval; official reprimand or condemnation | 1 | |
| 5835821186 | Cynical | Distrusting or disparaging the motives of others; showing contempt for accepted standards of morality | 2 | |
| 5835821187 | Disdain | To look upon or treat with contempt; to think unworthy of notice, response | 3 | |
| 5835821188 | Disillusion | To free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism | 4 | |
| 5835821189 | Elysian | Blissful; delightful | 5 | |
| 5835821190 | Emphatic | Using emphasis in speech or action; forceful, insistent, energetic | 6 | |
| 5835821191 | Empirical | Derived from or guided by experience or experiment; practical, pragmatic | 7 | |
| 5835821192 | Enigma | A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation; something with a hidden meaning; problem, riddle | 8 | |
| 5835821193 | Epigram | Any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed; witticism | 9 | |
| 5835821194 | Erudite | Characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly; educated, wise | 10 | |
| 5835821195 | Equivocal | Allowing the possibility of several different meanings; susceptible to double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous | 11 | |
| 5835821196 | Expedient | Fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances; acting with accordance to what is advantageous | 12 | |
| 5835821197 | Felicity | The state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss | 13 | |
| 5835821198 | Heretic | A professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church; anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle | 14 | |
| 5835821199 | Mammon | Riches or material wealth; often personified as an evil spirit or deity | 15 | |
| 5835821200 | Pernicious | Causing insidious harm or ruin; deadly, fatal, evil, wicked | 16 | |
| 5835821201 | Retard | To make slow, hinder, or impede; to be delayed | 17 | |
| 5835821202 | Solace | Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort; to comfort, console, or cheer | 18 | |
| 5835821203 | Strident | Making or having a harsh sound; having a shrill, irritating quality or character | 19 |