AP Language & Composition: Vocabulary #2 Flashcards
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| 8010258312 | Adept (adj) | very skilled; proficient; expert | 0 | |
| 8010258313 | Ambivalent (adj) | having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two opposing courses of action | 1 | |
| 8010258314 | Apropos (adj) | fitting; pertinent; opportune | 2 | |
| 8010258315 | Ascetic (adj) | a person who leads an austerely simple life, especially one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or denies himself or herself material satisfaction | 3 | |
| 8010258316 | Brazen (adj) | shameless or impudent | 4 | |
| 8010258317 | Broach (v) | to mention or suggest for the first time | 5 | |
| 8010258318 | Deliverance (n) | 1. salvation 2. liberation | 6 | |
| 8010258319 | Derisive (adj) | contemptuous; mocking | 7 | |
| 8010258320 | Droll (adj) | amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish | 8 | |
| 8010258321 | Edifying (adj) | instructing or benefiting, especially morally or spiritually; uplifting | 9 | |
| 8010258322 | Engender (v) | to produce, cause, or give rise to | 10 | |
| 8010258323 | Eschew (v) | to abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid | 11 | |
| 8010258324 | Extraneous (adj) | introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign | 12 | |
| 8010258325 | Glower (v) | to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger | 13 | |
| 8010258326 | Indolence (n) | slothfulness | 14 | |
| 8010258327 | Inexorable (adj) | unyielding; unalterable | 15 | |
| 8010258328 | Illicit (adj) | disapproved of or not permitted for moral or ethical reasons | 16 | |
| 8010258329 | Illusory (adj) | deceptive; misleading | 17 | |
| 8010258330 | Investiture (n) | the formal bestowal, confirmation, or presentation of rank, office, or a possessory or prescriptive right, usually involving giving of insignia or an official title | 18 | |
| 8010258331 | Languid (adj) | lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow | 19 | |
| 8010258332 | Naiveté (n) | the quality or state of being naive; natural or | 20 | |
| 8010258333 | Ostacism (n) | exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, | 21 | |
| 8010258334 | Provinciality (n) | a condition of being unsophisticated by exclusive association with inhabitants of a province; narrowness; the state or quality of being rustic, narrow or illiberal, parochial | 22 | |
| 8010258335 | Punitive (adj) | serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment | 23 | |
| 8010258336 | Reposeful (adj) | full of or suggesting (repose (n)-the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep); calm; quiet | 24 | |
| 8010258337 | Rudimentary (adj) | undeveloped or vestigial; elementary | 25 | |
| 8010258338 | Rueful(adj) | feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful | 26 | |
| 8010258339 | Salacious (adj) | lustful or lecherous | 27 | |
| 8010258340 | Sanguine (adj) | cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident | 28 | |
| 8010258341 | Superfluous (adj) | being more than is sufficient or required; excessive 2. unnecessary or needless | 29 |