AP Literature and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

6748272105	abnegation	self-denial, rejection in favor of others	0
6748272106	acquiesce	to agree, to favor, to accept	1
6748272107	acrimony	sharp animosity, harshness, or bitterness	2
6748272108	acumen	superior mental qualities, keen insight	3
6748272109	aplomb	great poise, confident composure	4
6748272110	assuage	appease, satisfy, make less intense	5
6748272111	bedizen	ornament in a showy, gaudy, vulgar manner	6
6748272112	bucolic	pastoral, idyllically rural; of or relating to shepherds	7
6748272113	caliber	degree of merit, degree of mental capacity	8
6748272114	candid	frank, outspoken, sincere	9
6748272115	captious	fault-finding, exaggerating trivial defects	10
6748272116	charlatan	impostor, fraud	11
6748272117	cohort	companion, a group of warriors or soldiers	12
6748272118	credulity	gullibility, readiness to believe without evidence	13
6748272119	cupidity	greed, lust for wealth, excessive desire	14
6748272120	dilatory	delaying, procrastinating, inclined to waste time	15
6748272121	effusive	demonstrative, overflowing emotion	16
6748272122	elation	great joy or gladness, high spirits	17
6748272123	enjoin	direct someone to do something, to prohibit or forbid	18
6748272124	explicate	explain, make plain, make clear	19
6748272125	abrogate	abolish or treat as non-existent	20
6748272126	anachronistic	set in the wrong time, misdated	21
6748272127	ardor	fervor, zeal, passion	22
6748272128	auspicious	favorable, attended by good	23
6748272129	boorish	rude, unmannerly	24
6748272130	chastise	discipline, punish	25
6748272131	cogent	to the point, relevant	26
6748272132	conflagration	large, destructive fire or war	27
6748272133	coruscate	sparkle, gleam	28
6748272134	coterie	clique, select group of people	29
6748272135	decry	belittle, to condemn openly	30
6748272136	diatribe	tirade, criticism	31
6748272137	ebullient	high spirited, joyously unrestrained	32
6748272138	enervate	weaken, exhaust, deprive of strength	33
6748272139	erudite	learned, showing profound knowledge of	34
6748272140	exonerate	free from blame, relieve from responsibility	35
6748272141	fetid	stinking, having an offensive odor	36
6748272142	foment	instigate, attempt to stir up public opinion	37
6748272143	garrulous	wordy, rambling, excessively talkative	38
6748272144	gregarious	sociable, fond of company	39
6748272145	codicil	supplement to a will, a legal change to a will	40
6748272146	copious	abundant, plentiful	41
6748272147	diametrical	direct opposite, absolute reverse	42
6748272148	disburse	expend, distribute	43
6748272149	dolt	blockhead, stupid person	44
6748272150	duplicity	deceitfulness, deceptiveness	45
6748272151	effete	decadent, sterile, worn out	46
6748272152	equine	of, relating to, or resembling horses or the horse family	47
6748272153	exculpate	absolve, free from blame	48
6748272154	expedite	hasten, dispatch, quicken	49
6748272155	extemporize	to do in a makeshift way, to deliver impromptu	50
6748272156	fallible	liable to err, likely to fail or to make a mistake	51
6748272157	fatuous	inane, silly, unreal	52
6748272158	furtive	stealthy, sly, shifty	53
6748272159	gauche	awkward, tactless, lacking social grace	54
6748272160	germane	relevant, pertinent	55
6748272161	hone	sharpen, whet, file, grind	56
6748272162	immutable	unchangeable, unalterable	57
6748272163	iniquitous	sinful, wicked, vicious	58
6748272164	kudos	glory, a praising remark for exceptional achievement	59
6748272165	avarice	greed, cupidity	60
6748272166	calumny	slander, lies to damage another's reputation	61
6748272167	consonant	in agreement, in harmony	62
6748272168	dearth	scarcity, shortage, lack	63
6748272169	debacle	sudden collapse, a flood, a failure	64
6748272170	elan	dash, distinctive and stylish elegance	65
6748272171	elegy	a lament for the dead	66
6748272172	galvanize	startle into sudden activity, to coat with zinc	67
6748272173	histronics	acting, theatricals	68
6748272174	illicit	unlicensed, unlawful	69
6748272175	inane	pointless, silly, foolish	70
6748272176	intrinsic	innate, true, natural, inherent	71
6748272177	levity	lightness of character, excessive frivolity	72
6748272178	lucid	clear, bright, shining	73
6748272179	mercurial	active, lively, erratic	74
6748272180	paradox	seeming self-contradiction that's true, a statement opposing accepted opinion	75
6748272181	pathos	pity, evoking compassion	76
6748272182	pensive	reflective, meditative, dreamily thoughtful	77
6748272183	penurious	poor, impoverished	78
6748272184	plethora	excess, abundance, state of being overfull	79
6748272185	impolitic	unwise, injudicious	80
6748272186	incarnadine	blood-red, crimson, flesh color	81
6748272187	indigenous	native, natural, innate	82
6748272188	indigent	destitute, impoverished, needy	83
6748272189	ineffable	inexpressible, unutterable, indescribable, taboo	84
6748272190	inure	toughen, harden, habituate	85
6748272191	irascible	testy, touchy, irritable	86
6748272192	laud	praise, extol, acclaim, to glorify	87
6748272193	limpid	clear, transparent, lucid, serene	88
6748272194	lithe	pliant, flexible, supple	89
6748272195	loquacious	very talkative, garrulous	90
6748272196	ludricous	laughable, ridiculous, funny because of obvious absurdity	91
6748272197	lugubrious	mournful, dismal, gloomy, excessively sorrowful	92
6748272198	malfeasance	wrongdoing, official misconduct, illegal deed	93
6748272199	malign	defame, slander	94
6748272200	morass	marsh, bog, swamp	95
6748272201	mundane	common, ordinary, everyday	96
6748272202	pariah	outcast, Untouchable	97
6748272203	patrimony	heritage from one's father or other ancestor, legacy	98
6748272204	pecuniary	financial, monetary, relating to money	99
6748272205	abatement	the act of putting an end to, a deduction	100
6748272206	altruistic	unselfish concern for the welfare of others	101
6748272207	analogous	comparable, similar	102
6748272208	aquiline	hooked like an eagle's beak, having characteristics like an eagle	103
6748272209	austerity	strict economy, without adornment; a state of great self-denial	104
6748272210	brevity	shortness, conciseness, terseness	105
6748272211	castigate	criticize or punish severely	106
6748272212	deplorable	sad, pitiable, lamentable	107
6748272213	doddering	trembling, shaking with old age, to progress in a feeble manner	108
6748272214	ennui	boredom, weariness, dissatisfaction	109
6748272215	eyrie	nest of a bird of prey, a home	110
6748272216	jocularity	state of being playful, jesting, characterized by joking	111
6748272217	mandate	command, authorize, decree	112
6748272218	maudlin	mawkish, tearfully sentimental	113
6748272219	mete	dole, measure out, allot	114
6748272220	peregrination	travel from one place to another, journey	115
6748272221	prodigious	enormous, extraordinary in size or degree	116
6748272222	saturate	fill up completely	117
6748272223	temerity	foolish boldness, fearless, daring	118
6748272224	vacuous	stupidly blank or empty	119
6748272225	iconoclast	destroyer of images of idols, attacker of traditions	120
6748272226	impeccable	faultless, irreproachable	121
6748272227	inexorable	relentless, unyielding	122
6748272228	infer	conclude, to derive by reasoning, to guess, speculate	123
6748272229	insipid	pointless, flat, dull	124
6748272230	integral	entire, whole, essential	125
6748272231	invidious	offensive, obnoxious	126
6748272232	laconic	concise, expressing much in a few words	127
6748272233	lethargic	drowsy, sluggish, vagrant	128
6748272234	malignant	harmful, dangerous	129
6748272235	martial	warlike, pertaining to war	130
6748272236	misanthropy	hatred or dislike of mankind	131
6748272237	mollify	pacify, appease, reduce	132
6748272238	ominous	threatening, portentous	133
6748272239	omniscient	all-knowing, infinite awareness	134
6748272240	ostracism	banishment, exile, exclusion	135
6748272241	panegyric	formal eulogy, or commendation	136
6748272242	paradigm	model, pattern, standard	137
6748272243	parsimonious	stingy, excessively frugal.	138
6748272244	peripatetic	wandering, roving, vagrant	139
6748272245	affray	public fight or riot, quarrel, or brawl	140
6748272246	apothegm	short, pithy saying, terse remarks	141
6748272247	decrement	loss, decrease	142
6748272248	incongruous	lacking harmony or agreement	143
6748272249	salacious	lustful, lecherous, obscene	144
6748272250	sartorial	of or about tailors or tailoring	145
6748272251	soliloquy	talking as is alone; utterance by a person talking to himself	146
6748272252	sordid	dirty, vile	147
6748272253	stringent	strict, severe, exacting	148
6748272254	supplant	remove, replace, overthrow	149
6748272255	taciturn	uncommunicative, habitually silent	150
6748272256	tepid	lukewarm, moderately warm	151
6748272257	truculent	savage, cruel, fierce	152
6748272258	unctuous	suave, smug, excessively pious	153
6748272259	venal	mercenary, corruptible, able to be bribed	154
6748272260	verbose	wordy, loquacious, lack of incisiveness or precision	155
6748272261	vernacular	common, native language	156
6748272262	virago	a shrew; ill-tempered woman	157
6748272263	voracious	greedy, immoderate, insatiable	158
6748272264	tedium	boredom, ennui, dullness	159
6748272265	incite	provoke, arouse, goad	160
6748272266	insular	detached, isolated, having a narrow point of view	161
6748272267	intrepid	fearless, dauntless, fortitude	162
6748272268	manumission	freeing, release from slavery	163
6748272269	moribund	dying, stagnant, on the verge of extinction	164
6748272270	nescient	ignorant, agnostic, lack of knowledge	165
6748272271	obfuscate	confuse, cloud, make obscure	166
6748272272	placebo	substance having no pharmaceutical effect	167
6748272273	proliferation	excessive rapid spread	168
6748272274	pusillanimous	cowardly in spirit, fearful	169
6748272275	recondite	deep, difficult, profound, little known	170
6748272276	sanctimonious	hypocritical show of piety or righteousness	171
6748272277	similitude	likeness, resemblance, comparison	172
6748272278	soporific	of or about sleep, drowsy	173
6748272279	supine	inactive, passive, lying on the back	174
6748272280	tactile	tangible, perceptible to the touch	175
6748272281	temporal	secular, transitory of this world, limited by time	176
6748272282	ungulate	hoof like, of or about horses	177
6748272283	vapid	insipid, spiritless, inane	178
6748272284	zenith	acme, highest point	179
6748272285	antipathy	aversion, habitual repugnance	180
6748272286	wane	diminish, abate, decrease	181
6748272287	encomium	eulogy, formal expression of high praise	182
6748272288	cacophonous	harsh, discordant, unpleasant	183
6748272289	ambivalent	having opposing feelings or desires	184
6748272290	puissant	powerful, potent, mighty	185
6748272291	bellicose	pugnacious, ready to fight	186
6748272292	amenable	agreeable, answerable	187
6748272293	cavil	harp, nitpick, raise minor objections	188
6748272294	commodious	spacious, roomy	189
6748272295	desultory	disconnected, random, lacking in order	190
6748272296	discreet	judicious, tactful, diplomatic	191
6748272297	emanate	emit, send forth, flow out	192
6748272298	didactic	too inclined to teach, preach, or lecture	193
6748272299	ephemeral	transitory, short-lived, fleeting	194
6748272300	feckless	feeble, ineffective, worthless	195
6748272301	heinous	hateful, odious, abominable	196
6748272302	piquant	pungent, spicy, provocative	197
6748272303	obstreperous	unruly, uncontrolled, vociferous, clamorous	198
6748272304	discrete	separate, distinct, detached from others	199