Midterm StudyGuide (AP Language) Flashcards

8221417490	behemoth	huge creature; anything very large and powerful	0
8221417491	multifarious	having great variety; numerous and diverse	1
8221417492	postulate	a statement that is accepted as true without proof	2
8221417493	salubrious	promoting health	3
8221417494	disinter	dig up; unearth	4
8221417495	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	5
8221417496	prevail	to triumph over; to be or become most common	6
8221417497	succulent	full of juice; highly enjoyable	7
8221417498	vicissitude	a change or variation; ups and downs	8
8221417499	aggrieved	feeling or expressing a sense of injustice, injury, or offense	9
8221417500	choleric	easily made angry, bad-tempered	10
8221417501	maraud	to roam in search of plunder	11
8221417502	penultimate	second to last	12
8221417503	opulent	wealthy or luxurious	13
8221417504	apocryphal	of questionable authority or authenticity	14
8221417505	racounteur	a person skilled at telling stories	15
8221417506	mortify	to humiliate or shame	16
8221417507	notoriety	the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality	17
8221417508	inarticulate	Incomprehensible; unable to speak with clarity	18
8221417509	contemptuous	lacking respect; scornful	19
8221417510	asserted	to express or state positively; to defend or claim	20
8221417511	elite	people of wealth and power	21
8221417512	excerpt	a passage taken from a book, article, etc.	22
8221417513	posthumous	after death	23
8221417514	heresy	an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred	24
8221417515	ethical	morally right	25
8221417516	analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	26
8221417517	visages	facial expressions	27
8221417518	amiable	friendly, good-natured	28
8221417519	callous	emotionally hardened, unfeeling	29
8221417520	indomitable	unconquerable, refusing to yield	30
8221417521	malleable	easy to shape or bend	31
8221417522	plausible	appearing true, reasonable, or fair	32
8221417523	ecstatic	Extremely happy	33
8221417524	unprecedented	never done or known before	34
8221417525	proximity	nearness	35
8221417526	invariably	always; without changing	36
8221417527	lament	to express sorrow; to grieve	37
8221417528	loathe	to hate	38
8221417529	atrocious	horrifyingly wicked	39
8221417530	insipid	lacking interest or flavor	40
8221417531	ascertain	to find out, as through investigation or experimentation	41
8221417532	attentuate	make thin; weaken	42
8221417533	impinge	hinder; interfere with	43
8221417534	plentitude	an abundance	44
8221417535	putrefy	to rot; to decompose	45
8221417536	tundra	An extremely cold, dry biome.	46
8300836752	ethos	appeal to ethics	47
8300836753	pathos	Appeal to emotion	48
8300836754	logos	Appeal to logic	49
8300836755	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	50
8300836756	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	51
8300836757	Anadiplosis	repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next	52
8300836758	litotes	a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite	53
8300836759	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	54
8300836760	anastrophe	the reversal of the natural order of words in a sentence or line of poetry	55
8300836761	Epanalepsis	repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause	56
8300836762	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	57