AP Literature words Flashcards

9321852444	empathize	understand and share the feelings of another	0
9321856715	timorous	showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence	1
9321862617	transcendent	beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience	2
9321872423	reticent	not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily	3
9321875233	profundity	deep insight; great depth of knowledge or thought	4
9321878263	disdain	the feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect	5
9321882092	langour	the state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia	6
9321892327	piety	the quality of being religious or reverent	7
9321892329	indictment	a thing that serves to illustrate that a system or situation is bad and deserves to be condemned	8
9321900079	servility	an excessive willingness to serve or please others	9
9321904238	sinister	giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen	10
9321912129	ambivalent	having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone	11
9321915251	lethargic	affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic	12
9321920202	truism	a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting	13
9321958161	antipathy	a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion	14
9321961524	incisiveness	(of a person or mental process) intelligently analytical and clear-thinking	15
9321977461	candor	the quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness	16
9321981065	conciliatory	intended or likely to placate or pacify	17
9321984513	indolence	avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness	18
9321989516	prudent	acting with or showing care and thought for the future	19
9322002632	verisimilitude	the appearance of being true or real	20
9322022079	denotation	the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests	21
9322022080	connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	22
9322032686	bombast	high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people.	23
9328658756	lugubrious	looking or sounding sad and dismal.	24
9328662038	polemical	relating to or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech	25
9328664012	pathos	a quality that evokes pity or sadness	26
9328666666	bathos	(especially in a work of literature) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous	27
9328668925	terse	sparing in the use of words; abrupt	28
9328671122	laconic	using very few words	29
9328676960	sanguine	optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation	30
9328681392	effusive	expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner	31
9328689970	cynical	believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity	32
9328692113	ebullient	cheerful and full of energy	33
9328694200	introspective	characterized by or given to introspection	34
9328696575	pedantic	of or like a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning	35
9328707232	verbose	using or expressed in more words than are needed	36
9328709908	insouciance	casual lack of concern; indifference	37
9328712829	choleric	bad-tempered or irritable	38
9328716070	complexity	the state or quality of being intricate or complicated	39
9328719292	contentious	causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial	40
9328722049	melancholy	a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause	41
9328725257	vitriolic	filled with bitter criticism or malice	42
9328729516	jocund	cheerful and lighthearted	43
9328732133	euphoric	characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness	44
9328734964	haughty	arrogantly superior and disdainful	45
9328738050	sardonic	grimly mocking or cynical	46
9328740253	pithy	concise and forcefully expressive	47