AP Literature Flashcards
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| 7988764522 | appreciate | to increase in value | 0 | |
| 7988767581 | bigot | one who is utterly intolerant of any creed or belief differing from his own | 1 | |
| 7988778847 | chaff | material separated from the seed after threshing, worthless matter | 2 | |
| 7988788439 | cliche | an overworked expression | 3 | |
| 7988791816 | couple | to join or to link together | 4 | |
| 7988795865 | discretion | ability to act on one's own power of individual decision | 5 | |
| 7988802249 | emollient | something that soothes or softens | 6 | |
| 7988805700 | fatalistic | belief that events are predetermined | 7 | |
| 7988811702 | gamely | in a positive and spirited approach to a task, with unyielding spirit | 8 | |
| 7988820739 | idiosyncrasy | a characteristic habit or mannerism that is peculiar to an individual | 9 | |
| 7988829945 | ignominy | disgraceful or dishonorable conduct | 10 | |
| 7988834560 | indices | plural of index | 11 | |
| 7988838193 | infidel | a person who has no religious faith; unbeliever | 12 | |
| 7988856076 | malinger | to pretend or to feign illness to avoid work or duty | 13 | |
| 7988860550 | motley | exhibiting great diversity of elements; heterogeneous | 14 | |
| 7988866273 | ossify | to change or to harden into bone; to be rigidly conventional | 15 | |
| 7988873508 | pestilence | a deadly epidemic disease; something considered harmful or evil | 16 | |
| 7988879241 | preciosity | meticulousness; extreme fastidiousness | 17 | |
| 7988887003 | scurry | to hurry about, to scamper | 18 | |
| 7988893583 | sophomoric | immature or poorly informed | 19 | |
| 7988896954 | surly | churlishly rude or bad tempered; unfriendly, hostile | 20 | |
| 7988904628 | transgression | violation of a law or command; sin | 21 | |
| 7988908428 | vent | to give utterance to | 22 | |
| 7988911865 | verify | to prove the truth of; to confirm | 23 | |
| 7988916659 | wheedle | to try to convince by flattery, to coax, to cajole | 24 |