AP Language 1-7 (no sentences) Flashcards
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| 5347436478 | assertion | a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief: | 0 | |
| 5347436479 | biased | unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something: | 1 | |
| 5347436480 | convoluted | extremely complex and difficult to follow: | 2 | |
| 5347436481 | integral | forming a necessary part of something; | 3 | |
| 5347436482 | condescending | behaving as though you think you are better, more intelligent, or more important than other people: | 4 | |
| 5347436483 | embellish | to make (a statement or story) more interesting or entertaining by adding extra details, especially ones that are not true: | 5 | |
| 5347436484 | contemporary | occurring in the present or at the same time: | 6 | |
| 5347436485 | transient | lasting only for a short time; impermanent (can refer to people, often homeless): | 7 | |
| 5347436486 | proliferate | to increase rapidly in numbers: | 8 | |
| 5347436487 | wary | feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems: | 9 | |
| 5347436488 | ubiquitous | being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent. | 10 | |
| 5347436489 | banal | so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring: | 11 | |
| 5347436490 | platitude | a remark or statement (especially of a moral nature) that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful: | 12 | |
| 5347436491 | delude | to impose a misleading belief upon someone; to deceive; to fool: | 13 | |
| 5347436492 | cliché | a phrase or opinion that is overused and demonstrates a lack of original thought: | 14 | |
| 5347436493 | surreptitious | kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of: | 15 | |
| 5347436494 | apathy | lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern: | 16 | |
| 5347436495 | inconsequential | not important or significant: | 17 | |
| 5347436496 | tenuous | very weak, uncertain, insecure: | 18 | |
| 5347436497 | malleable | able to be shaped, formed, controlled, influenced: | 19 | |
| 5347436498 | eloquent | able to express your ideas and opinions well, especially in a way that influences people: | 20 | |
| 5347436499 | lucid | expressed in a way that is clear and easy to understand: | 21 | |
| 5347436500 | alienate | to do something that makes someone unfriendly or unwilling to support you: | 22 | |
| 5347436501 | obscure | not well known and usually not very important; difficult to understand: | 23 | |
| 5347436502 | listless | feeling tired and not interested in things: | 24 | |
| 5347436503 | disparity | a great difference: | 25 | |
| 5347436504 | ostentatious | characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract attention: | 26 | |
| 5347436505 | pretentious | attempting to impress by faking greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed: | 27 | |
| 5347436506 | astute | having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one's advantage: | 28 | |
| 5347436507 | fabricate | to invent a story, piece of information etc. in order to deceive: | 29 | |
| 5347436508 | subjective | (1) existing only in a person's mind. (2) influenced by personal feelings or opinions. | 30 | |
| 5347436509 | objective | (1) existing independent of or external to the mind. (2) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions. | 31 | |
| 5347436510 | tacit | understood or implied without being stated: | 32 | |
| 5347436511 | infer | to deduce or conclude from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements: | 33 | |
| 5347436512 | wrought | beaten out or shaped by hammering: | 34 | |
| 5347436513 | belie | to give a false appearance of something: | 35 | |
| 5347436514 | benign | gentle; not harmful: | 36 | |
| 5347436515 | quibble | to argue or raise objections about a trivial matter: | 37 | |
| 5347436516 | syntax | word order (the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language): | 38 | |
| 5347436517 | semantics | the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text: | 39 | |
| 5347436518 | juxtapose | to place side-by-side or close together for contrasting effect | 40 | |
| 5347436519 | anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person: | 41 | |
| 5347436520 | opinion | a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge: | 42 | |
| 5347436521 | belief | something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion or conviction: | 43 | |
| 5347436522 | explicit | stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt: | 44 | |
| 5347436523 | implicit | suggested but not plainly expressed: | 45 | |
| 5347436524 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally: | 46 | |
| 5347436525 | jargon | special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand: | 47 | |
| 5347436526 | persona | the aspect of someone's character that is presented to or perceived by others: | 48 | |
| 5347436527 | code-switching | the practice of alternating between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation: | 49 | |
| 5347436528 | discourse | written or spoken communication: | 50 | |
| 5347436529 | rhetoric | (1) the art of persuasive speaking or writing: (2) language designed to have a persuasive effect, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity: | 51 | |
| 5347436530 | modest | moderate (humble) in the estimation of one's abilities or achievements: | 52 | |
| 5347436531 | prudent | exercising good judgment or common sense: | 53 | |
| 5347436532 | context | the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, idea, text, etc. | 54 | |
| 5347436533 | intuitive | based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive: | 55 | |
| 5347436534 | counterintuitive | contrary to common-sense expectation (but often nevertheless true): | 56 | |
| 5347436535 | plausible | seeming reasonable or probable:: | 57 | |
| 5347436536 | coherent | logically consistent: | 58 | |
| 5347436537 | quantify | to find or calculate the quantity or amount of (something): | 59 | |
| 5347436538 | relative | having a particular quality or value when compared with something else: | 60 | |
| 5347436539 | absolute | complete, definite, true, or right, and not changing in any situation: | 61 | |
| 5347436540 | comprehensive | including all or nearly all elements or aspects of something; complete: | 62 | |
| 5347436541 | paradigm | (1) a set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them (especially in an intellectual discipline): (2) an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype: | 63 | |
| 5347436542 | hierarchy | a system in which people or things are placed in a series of levels with different importance or status: | 64 | |
| 5347436543 | anomaly | something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected: |  | 65 |
| 5347436544 | salient | most noticeable or important: |  | 66 |
| 5347436545 | constituent | being a part of a whole: |  | 67 |
| 5347436546 | pander | to do or provide what someone wants or demands (even though it is not proper, good, or reasonable): |  | 68 |
| 5347436547 | stigma | a mark of disgrace: |  | 69 |
| 5347436548 | impartial | treating all rivals or disputants equally: |  | 70 |
| 5347436549 | substantiate | to provide evidence to support or prove the truth of something: |  | 71 |
| 5347436550 | contempt | the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn: |  | 72 |
| 5347436551 | impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of (someone or something): |  | 73 |
| 5347436552 | servile | very obedient and trying too hard to please someone: |  | 74 |
| 5347436553 | effusive | expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner: |  | 75 |