AP Literature Vocabulary Lists Flashcards
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| 5235449238 | didactic | (adj.) intended to teach; teaching tone | 0 | |
| 5235450694 | sardonically | (adj.) scornful; mocking | 1 | |
| 5235452774 | imperious | (adj.) haughty; proud | 2 | |
| 5235454413 | impervious | (adj.) not permitting passage or penetration | 3 | |
| 5235462778 | obsequious | (adj.) complacent; obedient | 4 | |
| 5235470076 | sycophant | (n.) one who tries to win favor by flattering influential people | 5 | |
| 5235472605 | supercilious | (adj.) disdainful; compemtuous | 6 | |
| 5235475469 | dissolute | (adj.) lacking moral contraint | 7 | |
| 5235476540 | poignant | (adj.) profoundly moving; touching | 8 | |
| 5235478823 | placate | (v.) to satisfy; to please | 9 | |
| 5235485718 | aberration | (n.) something that differs from the norm | 10 | |
| 5235501864 | aggrieved | (adj.) distresses; wronged; injured | 11 | |
| 5235505106 | dissonance | (n.) lack if harmony or consistency | 12 | |
| 5235501865 | egregrious | (adj.) extremely bad | 13 | |
| 5235501866 | ethereal | (adj.) heavenly; exceptionally delicate or refined | 14 | |
| 5235501867 | fervent | (adj.) ardent; passionate | 15 | |
| 5235503197 | ignomimious | (adj.) humiliating; disgracing | 16 | |
| 5235503198 | lithe | (adj.) graceful; flexible; supple | 17 | |
| 5235503199 | onerous | (adj.) burdensome | 18 | |
| 5235503200 | pugnacious | (adj.) quarrelsome; combative | 19 | |
| 5235532012 | benevolent | (adj.) intending or showing kindness | 20 | |
| 5235534001 | candor | (n.) the quality of frankness or outspokeness | 21 | |
| 5235536237 | expiate | (v.) to make satisfaction or amends for | 22 | |
| 5235532013 | facetious | (adj.) amusing | 23 | |
| 5235536238 | felicity | (n.) a state of well-founded happiness | 24 | |
| 5235538162 | imbibe | (v.) to take in | 25 | |
| 5235532014 | nomic | (adj.) usual; customary | 26 | |
| 5235534002 | salutary | (adj.) beneficial | 27 | |
| 5235538163 | sapience | (n.) deep wisdom or knowlegde | 28 | |
| 5235539293 | transience | (n.) something that is of short duration | 29 | |
| 5235577322 | ambivalence | (n.) uncertainty; having mixed feelings | 30 | |
| 5235573641 | bombastic | (adj.) too elaborate; exaggerated | 31 | |
| 5235573642 | capricious | (adj.) changeable; fickle | 32 | |
| 5235573643 | dispassionate | (adj.) unbiased; fair | 33 | |
| 5235573644 | indecorous | (adj.) lacking in dignity | 34 | |
| 5235573645 | loquacious | (adj.) talkative; wordy | 35 | |
| 5235578788 | perdify | (n.) betrayal; treachery | 36 | |
| 5235578789 | tenacity | (n.) firmness of purpose | 37 | |
| 5235578790 | transcend | (v.) to go beyond a limit; to rise above | 38 | |
| 5235577323 | vernerable | (adj.) worthy of respect | 39 | |
| 5235614449 | abhor | (v.) loathe | 40 | |
| 5235614450 | abjure | (v.) deny; renounce | 41 | |
| 5235614451 | assay | (v.) to evaluate; assess | 42 | |
| 5235616132 | augment | (v.) increase in size | 43 | |
| 5235619604 | dauntless | (adj.) fearless | 44 | |
| 5235611387 | disdain | (n.) contempt; scorn | 45 | |
| 5235616133 | discern | (v.) detect | 46 | |
| 5235616134 | equivocate | (v.) to intentionally deceive or confuse | 47 | |
| 5235617352 | impedes | (v.) prevents | 48 | |
| 5235619605 | judicious | (adj.) wise | 49 | |
| 5235611388 | malevolence | (n.) ill feeling | 50 | |
| 5235624060 | pernicious | (adj.) destructive | 51 | |
| 5235619606 | prate | (v.) to talk on and on | 52 | |
| 5235613239 | repose | (n.) rest; calmness | 53 | |
| 5235619607 | surmise | (v.) imagine; guess | 54 |