Vocabulary ~ AP Literature Flashcards
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| 7436776233 | burthen | weight down with a load; burden | 0 | |
| 7436803141 | gainsay | to declare false; to oppose, especially by contradiction | 1 | |
| 7436811821 | petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior/characterized by temporary or capricious ill humor;peevish | 2 | |
| 7436833435 | permeate | to spread or flow throughout, pervade | 3 | |
| 7436837486 | antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 4 | |
| 7436845827 | daemon | a divinity of supernatural being of a nature between gods and humans | 5 | |
| 7436866889 | self-effacing | not drawing attention to oneself; modest tending to make oneself, one's actions incconspicuous especially because of humility;modes | 6 | |
| 7436885675 | refutation | the part of an arguement in which a speaker or writer counters opposing points of views | 7 | |
| 7436903196 | genial | having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner | 8 | |
| 7436912161 | yuppie | a young city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and affluent lifestyle | 9 | |
| 7436924973 | idiosyncratic | a structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to and individual or group | 10 | |
| 7436941184 | abberation | a deviation from the proper or expected course; a departure from the normal or typical | 11 | |
| 7436951952 | callous | showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard to others | 12 | |
| 7436960133 | endowed | give or bequeth an income or property to a person or institution | 13 | |
| 7436968109 | zealous | marked by fervent patisanship for a person, a cause, or an ideal | 14 | |
| 7436981610 | constituent | one who authorizes another to act as an agent; principal/an essential part, component, element | 15 | |
| 7436999900 | introspective | an examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings | 16 | |
| 7437013423 | deplore | to feel or express strong disapproval of;condemn | 17 | |
| 7437019896 | maxims | a shorth, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct | 18 | |
| 7437028395 | barrenest | unproductive or results of gains, unprofitable/devoid of something specified, writing barren of insight | 19 | |
| 7437044373 | empirical | based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic | 20 | |
| 7437057106 | declamatory | pretentiously rhetorical, bobastic | 21 | |
| 7437066169 | intirnsically | of or relation to the essential nature of a thing;inherent | 22 | |
| 7437074911 | complacency | a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or ones achievements | 23 | |
| 7437086714 | diatribe | a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something/a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing; ironic or satirical criticism | 24 | |
| 7437108190 | treatise | a systematic exposition or arguement in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached | 25 |