AP English Literature: Aesthetic Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 7205065713 | Deference | courteous yielding to the opinion or wishes of another | 0 | |
| 7205067842 | Harangue | to make a long, pompous speech | 1 | |
| 7205068473 | Atrophy | to waste away(usually concerning bodies); to whither | 2 | |
| 7205069591 | Coy | pretending shyness or modesty | 3 | |
| 7205069759 | Imply | to express indirectly | 4 | |
| 7205070259 | Infer | to make an educated guess as to someone's meaning | 5 | |
| 7205070789 | Incessant | unceasing; unending | 6 | |
| 7205071129 | Vertigo | a sensation of dizziness | 7 | |
| 7205071548 | Antithetical | opposite; directly contrasting | 8 | |
| 7205073535 | Anticlimax | a disappointing or commonplace conclusion, after a big "build-up" | 9 | |
| 7205076205 | Revelation | something revealed; an act of revealing | 10 | |
| 7205076329 | Transpose | to reverse the order of; to interchange | 11 | |
| 7205076735 | Spoonerism | the transposing of sounds in language or writing | 12 | |
| 7205077410 | Aesthetic | of or pertaining to the sense of beauty | 13 |