AP Language Vocabulary Unit 4 Flashcards
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| 3200402596 | Carnivorous | meat or flesh eating | 0 | |
| 3200406682 | Herbivorous | plant eating | 1 | |
| 3200414081 | Insectivorous | feeding on insects | 2 | |
| 3200416721 | Voracious | having a huge appetite | 3 | |
| 3200418427 | Carnage | great destruction of life; slaughter | 4 | |
| 3200422783 | Carnal | having to do with bodily pleasures | 5 | |
| 3200424778 | Incarnate | given bodily or actual form; especially having human body | 6 | |
| 3200437271 | Reincarnation | rebirth in new bodies or forms of life (after death) | 7 | |
| 3200442923 | Credence | mental acceptance of something as true or real; belief | 8 | |
| 3200444900 | Credible | able to be believed; reasonable to trust or believe | 9 | |
| 3200450406 | Credulity | readiness and willingness to believe on the basis of little evidence | 10 | |
| 3200453397 | Credo | statement of the basic beliefs of a religious faith; a set of guiding principles | 11 | |
| 3200458973 | Affidavit | a sworn statement made in writing | 12 | |
| 3200461311 | Diffident | lacking confidence; timid, cautious | 13 | |
| 3200464248 | Fiduciary | having to do with confidence or trust; trust for another | 14 | |
| 3200467115 | Perfidy | faithlessness, disloyalty, treachery | 15 | |
| 3200474351 | Concurrent | happening or operating at the same time | 16 | |
| 3200475821 | Cursory | hastily and often carelessly done | 17 | |
| 3200479202 | Discursive | passing from one topic to another | 18 | |
| 3200502041 | Precursor | one that goes before and indicates the coming of another | 19 | |
| 3200504043 | Quadruped | an animal having four feet | 20 | |
| 3200505749 | Pedigree | the line of ancestors of a person or animal | 21 | |
| 3200542944 | Impediment | something that interferes with movement/progress | 22 | |
| 3200545469 | Pedestrian | commonplace, ordinary, unimaginative | 23 | |
| 3200556156 | Deflect | to turn aside, especially from a straight/fixed course | 24 | |
| 3200560320 | Reflective | capable of reflecting light, images or sound waves; thoughtful | 25 | |
| 3200564136 | Genuflect | to kneel on one knee and then rise as an act of respect | 26 | |
| 3200572176 | Inflection | a change in pitch, tone, or loudness of voice; the change in form of a word | 27 | |
| 3200580866 | Posterior | situated toward or on the back; rear | 28 | |
| 3200584725 | Posthumous | published after the death of the author; following or happening after death | 29 | |
| 3200590020 | Postmodern | having to do with a movement in architecture, art, or literature that is a reaction against modernism | 30 | |
| 3200595294 | Postmortem | occurring after death; following the event | 31 | |
| 3200605425 | Calypso | a folk song or style of singing of West Indian Origin | 32 | |
| 3200608302 | Odyssey | a long wandering journey full of trials and adventures; a spiritual journey or quest | 33 | |
| 3200616177 | Palladium | a precious, silver-white metal related to platinum used in electrical contacts | 34 | |
| 3200621464 | Penelope | a modest domestic wife | 35 | |
| 3200623823 | Procrustean | ruthlessly disregarding individual differences or special circumstances | 36 | |
| 3200629193 | Protean | displaying great variety; able to take on many different forms or natures | 37 | |
| 3200635220 | Sibyl | a female prophet or fortune teller | 38 | |
| 3200636741 | Siren | a woman who tempts men with bewitching sweetness | 39 |