AP Literature Vocabulary List 8 Flashcards
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| 5761550044 | Ubiquitous | present everywhere at once, or seeming to be |  | 0 |
| 5761550045 | Degrading | to cause somebody to feel shame and humiliation |  | 1 |
| 5761550720 | Tenuous | Not based on anything substantial | 2 | |
| 5761550721 | Verbose/ Verbosity | using too many words |  | 3 |
| 5761551152 | Chimera | animal with the body of mismatched animal parts |  | 4 |
| 5761551611 | Dichotomy | separation into two distinct categories |  | 5 |
| 5761551612 | Espouse | to adopt or support something as a belief or cause; to speak for or to marry |  | 6 |
| 5761552165 | Ameliorate | to improve something; or to become better |  | 7 |
| 5761552166 | Misconstrue | to misinterpret something |  | 8 |
| 5761553871 | Ignominious | total loss of dignity |  | 9 |
| 5761553872 | Juggernaut | an insensitive destructive force |  | 10 |
| 5761554646 | Patina | a pleasing surface sheen |  | 11 |
| 5761554647 | Prescience | forethought |  | 12 |
| 5761555440 | Pugnacity/Pugnacious | inclined to fight or be aggressive |  | 13 |
| 5761556267 | Temporal | relating to measured time; lasting a short amount of time |  | 14 |
| 5761556625 | Misnomer | wrong or suitable name for something or somebody |  | 15 |
| 5761556626 | Equivocate | to be deliberately unclear |  | 16 |
| 5761557165 | Altruism | selflessness; to care about others more than yourself |  | 17 |
| 5761557166 | Privation | lack of usual comforts of life |  | 18 |
| 5761557779 | Untoward | unfavorable, unfortunate, or improper |  | 19 |