AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

8896995561	complacent	marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies	0
8896995562	impartial	unbiased, objective	1
8896995563	jocular	joking, humorous	2
8897000382	importunate	troublesomely urgent; overly persistent	3
8897000383	capricious	given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood and behavior	4
8897003359	brusque	blunt in manner or speech often to the point of ungracious harshness	5
8632474207	ambiguous	open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations	6
8632476462	apathetic	having or showing little or no emotion, not interested or concerned	7
8632478868	ardent	characterized by intense feeling; passionate; intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic	8
8632490628	abstruse	difficult to understand	9
8632492500	acerbic	harsh or severe, as of temper or expression	10
8632494276	admonishing	cautioning, advising, or counseling against something; reminding	11
8632537552	insolent	rude, impolite, overbearing	12
8632537569	supercilious	haughty, contemptuous or disdainful, full of pride	13
8632540597	captious	ready to detect trivial faults	14
8632542353	clinical	detached, coolly dispassionate	15
8632544839	effusive	marked by the expression of great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm	16
8632547352	frivolous	lacking in seriousness	17
8632551045	benign	gentle, not harmful, kind	18
8632551046	blithe	happy, lighthearted, joyful	19
8632553325	craven	cowardly	20
8632556364	aesthetic	concerned with or appreciative of beauty	21
8632558602	altruistic	unselfish concern with the welfare of others	22
8632560501	anomalous	irregular, abnormal, unusual	23
8632563988	terse	brief and direct in a way that may seem rude or unfriendly	24
8632567082	turgid	excessively embellished in style or language	25
8632568909	patronizing	adopting an air of condescension toward; treating haughtily or coolly	26
8632575371	lugubrious	full of sadness or sorrow	27
8632577374	disdainful	scornful; feeling that someone or something is not worthy of any respect or approval	28
8632579917	satiric	using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc.	29
8632584776	insipid	lacking taste, dull, bland	30
8632586688	juxtapose	to place side by side	31
8632588718	pedantic	characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for academic knowledge and formal rules	32
8632593295	diffuse	wordy, not concentrated	33
8632594661	discerning	keenly perceptive, shrewd	34
8632594663	dogmatic	arrogantly assertive, positive about unproven ideas	35
8632598518	colloquial	conversational, used in informal speech	36
8632601614	cursory	brief, without much attention to detail	37
8632603546	didactic	instructive, intended to educate	38
8632605776	cathartic	producing an emotional purification or release	39
8632607436	caustic	marked by biting sarcasm	40
8632607461	censure	the act of blaming or condemning	41
8632612248	contemptuous	showing or expressing disdain; scornful	42
8632614183	flippant	lacking proper respect or seriousness	43
8632616014	elegiac	lamenting; mournful; plaintive	44
8632617347	indignant	feeling or showing anger because of something that is unfair or wrong	45
8632621347	maudlin	showing or expressing too much emotion especially in a foolish or annoying way	46
8632625250	petty	marked by or reflective of narrow interests and sympathies; small-minded	47
8632629088	irreverent	lacking proper respect or seriousness	48
8632631589	wistful	yearning, sad longing	49
8632633383	zealous	feeling or showing strong and energetic support for a person, cause, etc.	50
8632636018	winsome	charming, sweetly engaging; appealing in an innocent manner	51
8632642954	virulent	full of hate, malignant, extremely poisonous	52
8632646607	verbose	wordy	53
8632648457	vehement	intense, forceful, marked by strong feeling	54
8632650443	sardonic	disdainful, scornfully mocking	55
8632652275	reprove	to gently criticize	56
8632657008	pretentious	showy, self-important, making unjustifiable claims to excellence	57
8632659979	prosaic	dull, unimaginative, lacking excitement	58
8632662374	provincial	limited in outlook, narrow in ideas	59