Mega Vocabulary List AP Literature Flashcards

6630314932	aegis	the protection, backing or support of a particular person or organization	0
6630318071	ambivalent	having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something	1
6630331978	amorphous	lacking definite form, unorganized	2
6630335532	antipathy	hatred, intense dislike	3
6630337417	ardor	a strong feeling of eagerness or love	4
6630339227	aural	of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing	5
6630341179	autonomy	the state of existing or acting separately from others; the right or power of a country to govern itself	6
6630344717	banal	unoriginal, trite, overused	7
6630346429	cadence	regular beat or pattern (in poetic meter) the way a person's voice rises and falls when speaking	8
6630352521	cajole	to persuade someone to do something or to give you something by making promises or saying nice things	9
6630355945	capricious	given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior	10
6630358853	cynical	distrustful of others' motives, showing contempt for standard morality by taking advantage or others' scruples	11
6630363616	denounce	to criticize harshly and publicly	12
6630366430	dichotomy	division into two parts, mutually exclusive parts	13
6630369301	dissipation	an excessive way of living, foolishly spending money on only pleasure	14
6630388080	duplicitous	deceitful, two-faced	15
6630391152	effusive	showing great emotion	16
6630392743	epigram	short, witty, clever saying or poem	17
6630394398	euphoric	intensely happy or confident	18
6630394399	exhort	to strongly urge, to earnestly advise	19
6630396956	farce	a humorous work about ridiculous situations or events	20
6630399742	foreboding	a feeling that something bad will happen	21
6630403609	impede	to interfere with or slow the progress of	22
6630405357	impinge	to move into an area beyond acceptable limits, to gradually take or take over what is not yours	23
6630408813	indolence	laziness	24
6630410890	integral	necessary to make a whole complete, essential, fundamental	25
6630418035	introspective	inward-looking, self-examining	26
6630419565	labyrinthine	of, relating to, or resembling a labyrinth	27
6630423820	laconic	using very few words	28
6630425805	marginalize	to push to the side	29
6630427812	oblique	not direct, not stated directly	30
6638805788	palpable	easily seen, heard, perceived	31
6638807324	pastoral	having to do with the country, set in the country	32
6638810726	pathos	the quality of an event or especially a work of literature to evoke pity or sorrow	33
6638815929	paucity	small in number, not enough	34
6638817758	piety	reverence for God, (religious undertones)	35
6638819918	polemic	a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something	36
6638822643	rapscallion	rascal	37
6638829794	recondite	dealing with intellectual subjects, little known, obscure	38
6638831556	reproof	an expression of blame or disapproval	39
6638833000	repudiate	to refuse or accept, or to refuse to associate with	40
6638834905	sanguine	optimistic, always cheerful	41
6638835966	sinister	evil, or giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen	42
6638860739	supercilious	behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others	43
6638863322	terse	using few words, to the point	44
6638865523	timorous	nervousness, fear, lack of confidence	45
6638867475	transcendent	going beyond ordinary limits, extraordinary, supreme	46
6638869506	trope	a word or expression used in the figurative sense, a figure of speech	47
6638872885	verbose	using too many words, overly wordy	48
6638874767	verisimilitude	the appearance of being too true or real	49