AP Literature Vocabulary 1.1 Flashcards
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| 5836527895 | flippancy | lack of caring or regard | 0 | |
| 5836527896 | bucolic | rustic, peaceful | 1 | |
| 5836527897 | exuberant | extremely excited | 2 | |
| 5836528375 | desultory | lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm | 3 | |
| 5836528966 | bourgeois | middle-class; materialistic | 4 | |
| 5836528967 | bourgeoise | the middle class | 5 | |
| 5836529163 | garish | ugly, tacky, unsophisticated | 6 | |
| 5836529164 | deplore | to hate, strongly dislike | 7 | |
| 5836529165 | precariously | near the tipping point; close to collapse | 8 | |
| 5836529166 | immutable | unchanging over time | 9 | |
| 5836529747 | impecunious | having little or no money | 10 | |
| 5836529748 | impious | having little respect for tradition, esp. religion | 11 | |
| 5836529749 | raucously | recklessly, roughly | 12 | |
| 5836530063 | redolent | strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something | 13 | |
| 5836530064 | facetiousness | a joking manner, lack of seriousness | 14 | |
| 5836530065 | deferred | put off, delayed | 15 | |
| 5836530066 | fester | to become septic, infected | 16 | |
| 5836530528 | indictment | a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime | 17 | |
| 5836530529 | assimilationist | a person who advocates assimilation | 18 | |
| 5836530980 | looming | upcoming | 19 | |
| 5836530981 | Prometheus | in Greek mythology, the creator of mankind and its greatest benefactor | 20 | |
| 5836531454 | coo | make a soft murmuring sound | 21 | |
| 5836531455 | melodrama | overly-exaggerated drama | 22 | |
| 5836531456 | nonplussed | unfazed, unaffected | 23 | |
| 5836531519 | eccentricity | strangeness, deviance from the typical | 24 | |
| 5836531839 | martyrdom | heroic death for a cause | 25 | |
| 5836531840 | monologue | extended dramatic speech by one character | 26 | |
| 5836532063 | idiom | a characteristic mode of expression; a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words | 27 |