AP Literature Unit 6 Flashcards
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| 5564941736 | abject | (adj) degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved | 0 | |
| 5564950898 | agnostic | (n) one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; (adj) without faith, skeptical | 1 | |
| 5564955424 | complicity | (n) involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice | 2 | |
| 5564958087 | derelict | (n) someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj) left abandoned; neglectful of duty | 3 | |
| 5564961852 | diatribe | (n) a bitter and prolonged verbal attack | 4 | |
| 5564965344 | effigy | (n) a crude image of a despised person | 5 | |
| 5564968635 | equity | (n) the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim | 6 | |
| 5564976053 | inane | (adj) silly, empty of meaning or value | 7 | |
| 5564977578 | indictment | (n) an act of accusing; a formal accusation | 8 | |
| 5564979274 | indubitable | (adj) certain, not to be doubted or denied | 9 | |
| 5564981651 | intermittent | (adj)) stopping and beginning again, sporadic | 10 | |
| 5564983427 | moot | (adj) open to discussion and debate, unresolved; (v) to bring up for discussion; (n) a hypothetical law case argued by students | 11 | |
| 5564991912 | motif | (n) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design | 12 | |
| 5564998856 | neophyte | (n) a new convert, beginner, novice | 13 | |
| 5565000620 | perspicacity | (n) keenness in observing and understanding | 14 | |
| 5565002868 | plenary | (adj) complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members | 15 | |
| 5565005372 | surveillance | (n) a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation | 16 | |
| 5565010451 | sylvan | (adj) pertaining to or characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest; wooded, woody | 17 | |
| 5565014287 | testy | (adj) easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation | 18 | |
| 5565019182 | travesty | (n) a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise, especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion | 19 | |
| 5565034217 | sanguine | optimistic, cheerful | 20 | |
| 5565034218 | antithetical | conflicting ideas | 21 | |
| 5565036716 | pessimistic | seeing the worst side of things | 22 | |
| 5565036717 | indolent | lazy, apathetic | 23 | |
| 5565038928 | forthright | directly frank | 24 | |
| 5565038929 | spoonerism | mixing the first letter of two words | 25 | |
| 5565041383 | slant-rhyme | near rhyming words, such as "lawn" and "down" | 26 | |
| 5565044476 | end-stopped line | poetry that ends with a period, colon, or semi-colon | 27 | |
| 5565046883 | enjambment | continuing a line without punctuation | 28 | |
| 5565049786 | juxtaposition | unassociated ideas that are placed beside one another to achieve an effect of surprise or new insight | 29 |