ap literature summer vocabulary Flashcards

7278108025	proscribe	to prohibit or put outside the law	0
7278111167	debauch profligacy	engage in wild and corruptive living, immorality	1
7278118045	licentious prurient salacious	immoral lewd, corruptive	2
7278128351	demagogue	political leader who seeks support by appearing to popular desires rather than by using rational argument	3
7278141585	umbrage	offense	4
7278143180	travail	suffering and hardship	5
7278144838	veracity veracious	truth	6
7278148345	voracious rapacious rapacity	greedy, grasping	7
7278155118	encomium	great praise	8
7278155119	banal	ordinary, dull; prosaic	9
7278161244	dereliction derelict	failure to perform an official duty or responsibility	10
7278163620	travesty	a force	11
7278165572	anathema	anything forbidden socially	12
7278169590	perfidy perfidious treachery treacherous	treason or double dealing	13
7278179148	ignominy ignominious	disgraceful	14
7278180489	pyrrhic	some win or victory accomplished as too great a cost	15
7278183320	surfeit	an excess or overabundance	16
7278187964	dour	gloomy, solemn	17
7278189449	slothful	lazy, indolent	18
7278191411	pithy terse laconic	brief to the point	19
7278195749	orotund bloviating bombastic	wordy, pompous	20
7278208364	pejorative	full of ones self	21
7278208367	nemesis	one that inflicts retribution or vengeance	22
7278215255	acquisitive	greedy or materialistic	23
7278217528	pariah	an outcast (from Hindu caste system)	24
7278219971	paradigm	a model or pattern	25
7278221826	ebullient ebullience	buoyant, bubbly, enthusiastic	26
7278224670	culpable	guilt	27
7278226314	exculpate	free of blame	28
7278268456	recondite esoteric abstruse obscure	little known, highly specialized, known to a few	29
7278272238	peremptory	final, irrevocable	30
7278274314	countermand	to go against	31
7278276895	pertinacious	from tenacious, persistent	32
7278278980	lambent	softly radiant	33
7278280576	peccadillo	minor faults	34
7278280577	cupidity	inordinate desire for wealth	35
7278293723	tawdry meretricious	cheap and common	36
7278293724	internecine	deadly for everyone involved	37
7278296436	imbroglio	confused mess	38
7278297527	impetus	a push	39
7278300709	perspicacious	of acute mental vision or discernment	40
7278304318	confluence	flowing together	41
7278306019	effluence	flowing out of	42
7278307484	simplistic	TOO simple	43
7278310699	convoluted	complicated	44
7278315019	ablutions	literally a religious word meaning purified with water; shaving, shower	45
7278324866	abstemious	comes from abstain	46
7278326883	amulet talisman	lucky	47
7278331513	mitigate alleviate	to lessen to make "softer"	48
7278347978	analogous	from analogy	49
7278351798	apparition specter wraith	ghost	50
7278355654	artifice ruse machination stratagem ploy gambit	clever trick	51
7278355655	atrophy degeneration attenuate	weaken, wasting away	52
7278402053	guile	cunning	53
7278402054	beguile	to charm someone	54
7278403634	bereft	grieving because of loss	55
7278405045	flaccid	limp or flabby	56
7278410070	premonition presentiment prescience misgiving	previous notice or warning	57
7278439047	gourmandize gourmet gourmand	1. to eat voraciously 2. connoisseur 3. slob	58
7278445753	ubiquitous	occurring everywhere	59
7278447550	admonish	give friendly, earnest advice or encouragement exhort; importune	60
7278454833	caveat	a warning	61
7278454834	derogate denigrate disparge malign	to blacken or defame someone	62
7278460289	traduce pillory	to publicly ridicule someone	63
7278461674	cosseted cosset	to pamper someone or treat him as a pet	64
7278466208	acquiesced capitulated acceded	to give into	65
7278483228	beleaguered	troubled, harassed, besieged	66
7278485952	machiavellian	ruthless and scheming, usually political	67
7278491356	draconian	unduly harsh	68
7278494471	extirpate eradicate annihilate	to wipe out	69
7278500144	attrition	failure rate	70
7278497971	decimate	partially eradicate	71
7278502493	tangential peripheral	around the outside or something; not relevant to issue at hand	72
7278508834	germane	relevant	73
7278514343	exacerbate	to make worse or worsen	74
7278518053	abrogate terminate	to end	75
7278518054	truncate	to reduce in size by cutting off	76
7278522326	synergy synergistic	happy cooperation	77
7278536626	ersatz	an inferior or unconventional substitute	78
7278564350	inexorable ineluctable	inevitable or bound to happen	79
7278566159	desultory	wandering; aimless	80
7278568295	quotidian	everyday events	81
7278571245	sanctimonious	too "holier than thou"; used when person is being negative	82
7278573190	sanctimony	the act of acting sanctimonious	83
7278581927	pontificate	preachy	84
7278585349	inure	to become accustomed to	85
7278585350	parse	read carefully	86
7278587106	peruse	skim quickly	87
7360255526	gourmandize	to eat voraciously	88
7360256751	gourmet	a connoisseur	89
7360257348	gourmand	slob	90