Crime and Punishment Vocab. 1 - AP Literature Flashcards
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| 5426978158 | Abject | -(of a condition or situation) extremely bad, unpleasant, degrading, hopeless, miserable -(of a person or behavior) completely without pride or dignity, worthless, low, degraded |  | 0 |
| 5426999799 | Prevaricate | speak or act in an evasive way; dodge (the issue); waffle |  | 1 |
| 5427012117 | Admonishes | -warn someone firmly, scold, criticize -advise or urge (someone) earnestly, counsel -warn someone of something to be avoided |  | 2 |
| 5427021429 | Vice | -immoral or wicked behavior, wrongdoing, evil -criminal activities involving something illegal -an immoral or wicked personal characteristic |  | 3 |
| 5427040288 | Languid | -displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed -weak from illness or fatigue |  | 4 |
| 5427053456 | Magnanimous | -very generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or someone less powerful than oneself; charitable |  | 5 |
| 5427060259 | Emaciated | -abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or lack of food |  | 6 |
| 5427068116 | Bilious | -spiteful, bad tempered HINT: billy goat -affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting; sick, queasy |  | 7 |
| 5427082760 | Contemptuous | -showing contempt; scornful; disdainful;disrespectful |  | 8 |
| 5427089304 | Penitent | -feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant; ashamed;regretful -person who repents their sins or wrongdoings and seeks forgiveness from God |  | 9 |
| 5427114905 | Ignominy | public shame or disgrace; humiliation, embarrassment |  | 10 |
| 5427114906 | Banefactor | -a person who gives money or other help to a person or cause; patron, supporter |  | 11 |
| 5427135304 | Lavish | -very rich, elaborate, luxurious; costly, expensive -bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities |  | 12 |
| 5427138133 | Destitution | -poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for oneself |  | 13 |
| 5427142479 | Rend | -tear something onto two or more pieces -wrench something violently -cause great emotional pain to person or their heart |  | 14 |
| 5427148941 | Renounce | -formally declare one's abandonment of a claim, right, or possession; reject -refuse to recognize or abide by any longer -declare that one will no longer engage in or support, abandon, disown |  | 15 |
| 5427158022 | Huckster | -a person that sells small items, either door-to-door, or from stall; trader, seller |  | 16 |
| 5427166214 | Perpetuity | -a thing that lasts forever or for an indefinite period in particular -the state or quality of lasting forever |  | 17 |
| 5427172645 | Impudent | -not showing due respect for another person; cocky, cheeky |  | 18 |
| 5427176514 | Interposed | -place or insert between one thing and another -intervene between parties |  | 19 |
| 5427181992 | Remittance | -a sum of money send, especially by mail, in payment for goods or services or as a gift -hint: TRANSMITTANCE |  | 20 |
| 5427186685 | Repugnance | -intense disgust -inconsistency or incapability of ideas and statements |  | 21 |
| 5427192861 | Metaphysical | -of or relating to metaphysics -of or characteristic of the metaphysical poets -loss of nature |  | 22 |
| 5427199918 | Ruffian | -violent person, especially one involved in crime, hooligan |  | 23 |
| 5427203164 | Jaunty | having or expressing a lively, cheerful and self-confident manner; happy, merry, jolly |  | 24 |