AP Language Midterm Vocabulary Flashcards

5936848651	forte	one's strong point; area of expertise; talent	0
5936849844	detest	to hate	1
5936850644	clique	small exclusive group	2
5936851091	matriarch	female ruler or mother in authority	3
5936851511	adroit	skillful; talented; proficient	4
5936854954	scrutinize	to examine closely	5
5936855398	chaos	total discord; confusion	6
5936855707	pensive	thoughtful; thinking deeply	7
5936856326	vacillate	to sway or waiver; to fluctuate	8
5936856805	purge	to purify	9
5936857369	amicable	friendly; peaceful	10
5936858001	naivete	the state of innocence; simple unawareness	11
5936858377	elude	to avoid or escape	12
5936858717	copious	plentiful; abundant; excessive	13
5936859164	frugal	thrifty; cheap; economical	14
5936859611	affinity	attraction	15
5936859981	precarious	dangerous; risky; uncertain	16
5936860629	parity	equality in condition or value	17
5936861204	opulent	very wealthy	18
5936861596	stringent	stern; severe; austere	19
5936862094	epitome	perfect example	20
5936862429	ostracize	cast out; exclude; banish	21
5936863154	relinquish	give up; surrender; capitulate	22
5936863633	omnipotent	all-powerful	23
5936868184	exasperate	irritate; annoy	24
5936868590	bevy	small group of girls or birds	25
5936868824	trepidation	fear; apprehension	26
5936869107	adept	proficient; adroit; talented	27
5936870037	ribald	coarse joking; rude	28
5936871500	ostentation	showy; fancy; guady	29
5936872093	annihilate	totally destroy; eradicate	30
5936872469	mollify	appease; clam down; soothe	31
5936872775	nemesis	archenemy; arch rival	32
5936874090	pessimism	fatal outlook (ex. Murphy's Law)	33
5936874617	indigent	poor; impoverished; destitute	34
5936878564	adament	unyielding; firm; hard; flexible	35
5936879429	optimism	positive outlook	36
5936879733	impeccable	faultless; without error; flawless	37
5936880054	paramount	ranking highly (eminent)	38
5936880660	seclusion	to be in isolation; privacy	39
5936880932	utopian	perfect; ideal	40
5936881250	novice	beginner	41
5936881468	havoc	great destruction/ devastaton	42
5936882097	lethargic	sluggish; no energy; apathetic; blase; languid	43
5936882692	exodus	going out; going forth; departure	44
5936883787	excruciating	agonizing; intensely painful	45
5936884560	alleviate	to make easier; to lessen	46
5936885181	flippant	frivolous; disrespectful	47
5936886303	clandestine	secret; hidden	48
5936886566	pompous	pretentious; arrogant; vain	49
5936886889	mentor	teacher; tutor; coach; trusted counselor	50
5936889800	ethos	Greek for "character," speakers appeal to this to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic	51
5936893611	logos	Greek for "embodied thought," speakers appeal to reason by offering clear, rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up	52
5936900994	pathos	Greek for "suffering" or "experience," speakers appeal to this to emotionally motivate their audience	53
5936902773	propaganda	the spread of ideas and information to further a cause	54
5936903312	persona	Greek for "mask," the face or character that a speaker shows to his or he audience	55
5936904294	rhetoric	the art of finding ways to persuade an audience	56
5936905418	rhetorical triangle (Aristotelian triangle)	a diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text	57
5936906114	antithesis	opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction	58
5936907033	allusion	brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art	59
5936907943	anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	60
5936908640	metaphor	figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as	61
5936911221	oxymoron	paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	62
5936912051	imperative sentence	sentence used to command or enjoin	63
5936914321	synecdoche	figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	64
5936915385	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	65
5936918131	personification	attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea	66
5936918958	ad hominem	this fallacy means "to the man" in Latin, it is a specific diversionary tactic of switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the other speaker	67
5936922487	begging the question	a fallacy in which the claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt	68
5936925011	appeal to false authority	this fallacy occurs when someone who has not expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority	69
5936925860	deduction	the logical process whereby one reaches a conclusion starting with a general principle or universal truth (a major premise) and applying it to a specific case (a minor premise)	70
5936927379	closed thesis	a statement or the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make	71
5936931965	claim	also called an assertion or proposition, the states the argument, main idea, or position	72
5936934463	induction	a logical process whereby the writer reasons from particulars to universals, using specific cases in order to draw a conclusion	73
5936936369	faulty analogy	a fallacy that occurs when two things are compared that are not comparable	74