AP Literature Vocab List 2 Flashcards

4968391896	Phelegmatic	Adjective: not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish. Phlegmatic though he might have been, Levine had a wonderfully dry, self-deprecating sense of humor.	0
4968391897	Splenetic	Adjective: Obsolete. affected with, characterized by, or tending to produce melancholy. He was not successful, and in a splenetic mood he flung himself at full length upon a bank of wet grass.	1
4968392308	Melancholy	Adjective: affected with, characterized by, or showing melancholy; mournful; depressed. The sight of the motel name on the card threw me into a fit of melancholy.	2
4968392309	Sanguine	Adjective: cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident. Some conservative pro-Israel groups and most Republicans opposed Hagel for being too hostile to Israel and too sanguine on Iran.	3
4968392641	Choleric	Adjective: extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible. The opponents know this deep down, or at least fear it, and that is the true reason for their choleric obsession.	4
4968392642	Rhetoric	Noun: the study of the effective use of language. Israel is responding not only to Iran's actions but also to its rhetoric, its statements of intent.	5
4968392928	Redundant	Adjective: characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; prolix. In The Telegraph, David Gritten describes "Diana" as a film, "bookended by a redundant piece of lurid sensationalism".	6
4968392929	Strumpet	Noun: a prostitute. Patriotism could find no better words, and how can the dramatist represent the speaker as a ' strumpet ' inspired by 'fiends'?	7
4968393365	Sycophant	Noun: a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite. The sycophant recognised the arms on the panel and collapsed.	8
4968393366	Unctuous	Adjective: characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, especially in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug. The memories of a hundred business trips came roaring back as I recalled the unctuous Cinnabon aroma that wafts through airports.	9
4968393920	Condone	Verb: to disregard or overlook (something illegal, objectionable, or the like) He stressed that the Palestinian Authority "does not condone any such incitement to violence".	10
4968394549	Pragmatic	Adjective: of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations. A panel on the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata (in which I participated) studied the pragmatic morality of this living text.	11
4968394550	Auspicious	Adjective: promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable. I keep an auspicious fortune cookie message in my wallet: "All your sorrows will vanish."	12
4968395011	Perquisite	Noun: an incidental payment, benefit, privilege, or advantage over and above regular income, salary, or wages. I was satisfied; and taking the tongue, (the hunter's perquisite,) I returned to my companions.	13
4968395274	Stoic	Adjective: of or relating to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity. From the few photographs of him, we see a stout man with deep Indian features, a thick mustache and Stoic face.	14