AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 3339209088 | Palliate | (Adj.) Make less serious or severe; relieve symptoms of an illness (Pal-i-ate) |  | 0 |
| 3339210440 | Meretricious | (Adj.) Tawdrily and falsely attractive (Mer-i-tri-cious) |  | 1 |
| 3339210441 | Credulous | (Adj.) Too ready to believe, easily deceived | 2 | |
| 3339210442 | Genial | (Adj.) cordial, pleasantly cheerful or warm |  | 3 |
| 3339212215 | Pedantic | (Adj.) Ostentatious about learning; overally scholarly |  | 4 |
| 3339212216 | Ostensible | (Adj.) apparent; evident; easy to see |  | 5 |
| 3339213504 | Salubrious | (Adj) promoting health |  | 6 |
| 3339213505 | Ascetic | (Adj.) One who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury |  | 7 |
| 3339223026 | Prurient | (Adj.) Having frequent lustful or lewd thoughts or desires |  | 8 |
| 3339223027 | Incendiary | (Adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion |  | 9 |
| 3339223028 | Disconsolate | (adj.) deeply unhappy or dejected; without hope, beyond consolation |  | 10 |
| 3339230384 | Peremptory | (adj.) having the nature of a command that leaves no opportunity for debate, denial, or refusal; offensively self-assured, dictatorial; determined, resolute |  | 11 |
| 3339236557 | Diffident | (adj.) shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved |  | 12 |