AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

5152002635	LUCID	Easy to understand	0
5152003578	PRECARIOUS	Dangerous; risky; lacking in security or stability	1
5152006348	PROPENSITY	A natural inclination or tendency	2
5152007209	SARDONIC	cynical; scornfully mocking	3
5152007912	RETARD	to make slow, delay, hold back	4
5152007913	DISDAIN	arrogant scorn; contempt	5
5152007914	REPRESS	To hold back; to put down or check by force	6
5152008482	AMBIVALENCE	The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes	7
5152011479	CONVALESCENCE	gradual recovery after an illness	8
5152011480	VITALITY	energy; power to survive	9
5152011481	WROUGHT	shaped; made	10
5152011482	VIGOR	Physical strength and good health	11
5152012513	DISPOSSESSED	evicted, as from a dwelling; without property or status; rootless, alienated; having suffered the loss of expectations, prospects, or relationships	12
5226906007	AILMENT	a minor illness	13
5226912417	INDELIBLE	Not able to be erased or removed; memorable	14
5226915414	HAPPENSTANCE	a chance happening or event	15
5226917127	GREGARIOUS	outgoing; sociable	16
5226919571	BENIGN	harmless, gentle, kind; forgiving, understanding; having a favorable or beneficial effect; not malignant	17
5351604573	DEFTLY	quickly and skillfully	18
5351607166	SKEWED	distorted or off-centered	19
5351611859	SYNECDOCHE	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	20
5351614883	ODE	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.	21
5351618264	ELEGY	a sorrowful poem or speech	22
5351620459	PASTORAL	relating to countryside or nomadic traditions	23
5646901163	BREVITY	Briefness	24
5646901164	BREADTH	width; extent	25
5646901165	PERCHANCE	perhaps; possibly	26
5646901166	ENTHRALL	to captivate, charm, hold spellbound; to enslave; to imprison	27
5646901167	RECIPROCAL	shared; involving give-and-take between two persons or things; working in both directions	28
5646901169	LAMENT	to express sorrow; to grieve	29
5646901170	VINDICTIVE	Revengeful	30