AP Literature & Composition: Diction Flashcards

7426079194	insipid	lacking qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge; dull	0
7426079195	precise	marked by exactness and accuracy of expression	1
7426079196	euphonious	pleasing to the ear	2
7426079197	cacophonus	harsh, grating	3
7426079198	abstract	theoretical; lacking form; difficult to understand	4
7426079199	concrete	grounded; relating to an actual specific thing	5
7426079200	objective	impersonal, unemotional language	6
7426079201	subjective	personal, emotional language	7
7426079202	pedantic	narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned; "teacherly"	8
7426079203	simple	easily understood; not complex	9
7426079204	colloquial	informal, conversational; may be regional or idiomatic	10
7426079205	formal	"proper" language; observing every rule of grammar and usage	11
7426079206	slang	vernacular speech, sometimes humorous	12
7426079207	esoteric	designed for or understood by the initiated alone; requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group	13
7426079208	denotative	literal meanings	14
7426079209	connotative	implied meanings	15
7426079210	trite	lacking originality or freshness	16
7426079211	euphemistic	substituiton of a milder, vaguer word/ expression for one to be considered offensive	17
7426079212	pretentious	attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, than actually possessed	18
7426079213	abstruse	difficult to comprehend	19
7426079214	obscure	not easily distinguished; not clearly expressed; mysterious	20
7426079215	picturesque	visually attractive in an idyllic, often quaint manner	21
7426079216	emotional	notably aroused or agitated in feeling or sensibility; appealing to or arousing emotion	22
7426079217	sensous	appealing to the senses rather than the intellect; attractive or gratifying in a sexual manner	23
7426079218	learned	having and conveying knowledge acquired by study	24
7426079219	bombastic	conveying a sense of exaggerated importance through artificial or empty means	25
7426079220	grotesque	comically or repulsively ugly or distorted	26
7426079221	moralistic	narrowly or conventionally moral; preachy	27
7426079222	idiomatic	an expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from the meaning of the word that makes it up--i.e. an idiom	28
7426079223	homespun	plain; unspoiled; unsophisticated; simple	29
7426079224	provincial	unsophisticated, narrow-minded--a byproduct of living outside the boundary of country's capital city.	30