AP Language vocabulary chapter 15-14(partial) Flashcards

9030599539	assimilation	to absorb; to make similar	0
9030599540	consensus	general agreement	1
9030599541	context	circumstances of a situation; environment	2
9030599542	derived	copied or adopted from a source	3
9030599543	incumbent	imposed as duty; obligatory	4
9030601705	inevitable	certain to happen, unavoidable	5
9030601706	malleable	easily shaped or formed; easily influenced	6
9030601707	subdue	to restrain; to hold back	7
9030623375	assiduous	hard-working	8
9030623376	dogged	stubbornly preservering	9
9030623377	intrepid	courageous; fearless	10
9030623378	maverick	one who is independent and resists adherence to a group	11
9030623379	obdurate	stubborn; inflexible	12
9030625309	obstinate	stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action	13
9030625310	proliferate	to grow or increase rapidly	14
9030625311	tenacity	persistence	15
9030625312	vitality	energy; power to survive	16
9082454593	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	17
9082454594	consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	18
9082454595	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	19
9082456473	polysyndeton	repetition of conjunctions	20
9082461668	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	21
9082461669	metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	22
9082461670	asyndeton	a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	23
9082463169	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	24
9082463170	anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	25
9082463171	epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	26
9082463172	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	27