Vocab AP Literature Flashcards

7223846190	enjoin	to command somebody to do something or behave in a certain way; to forbid or direct	0
7223836264	asceticism	austerity and self-denial, especially as a principled way of life	1
7223841047	dint	force emphasis	2
7223841900	envoy	somebody acting as a diplomat on behalf of a govt; official messenger	3
7223841901	espouse	to adopt a cause, a belief, or a way of life	4
7223842527	beguile	to mislead or deceive somebody	5
7223846189	allocation	the assignment or earmarking of something/the thing, amount, or share,of something allocated to somebody or something	6
7223846948	oscillate	to swing between two points; to sway back and forth between choices	7
7223846949	interloper	somebody who interferes in other people's affairs, especially selfishly	8
7223847856	histrionics	exaggerated emotional behavior done for show or to gain a reaction	9
7226671061	innocuous	harmless in effect	10
7226671062	impervious	remaining unmoved or unaffected	11
7226671063	fetter	a chain or shackle; a means of confinement/to confine or restrain	12
7226671064	desecrate	to damage something sacred	13
7226671065	rend	to tear apart violently	14
7226671066	salubrious	beneficial to or promoting health or well-being	15
7226671067	vapid	lacking interest or liveliness; lacking strength, taste, or flavor	16
7226671068	taciturn	habitually uncommunicative or reserved in speech and manner	17
7226671069	alacrity	promptness or eager and speedy readiness	18
7226671070	abstruse	obscure and not easily understood	19
7292581005	Incarcerate	To put in prison; to place some situation of confinement	20
7292595327	Vacuous	Having no content; lacking ideas or intelligence	21
7292601569	Intimate	To imply or hint; to make known	22
7292608122	Jubilant	Feeling or expressing great delight	23
7292612215	Presumptuous	Inconsiderate, disrespectful, or overconfident, especially in doing something when not entitled or qualified	24
7292615668	Pecuniary	Having to do with money or financial matters	25
7292625055	Licentious	Lacking moral restraint, of a promiscuous or illegal nature	26
7292633342	Muse	To ponder think over daydream	27
7292634529	Subversive	Intended or likely to undermine or overthrow a government or other institution or idea	28
7292637682	Lassitude	State of weariness accompanied by listlessness or apathy	29
7337774385	vacillate	to be indecisive, to sway from side to side	30
7337777470	initiative	ability to act and make decision without help or advice	31
7337782340	disparity	lack of equality	32
7337791131	avocation	hobby or pastime	33
7337797515	efficacy	ability to produce the necessary or desired results	34
7337802974	capricious	tending to make sudden and unpredictable changes; spontaneous	35
7337809931	reticent	unwilling to communicate or reveal facts	36
7337815699	dichotomous	dividing into two parts; branching	37
7337818261	moribund	nearly dead; having lost all sense of purpose; becoming obsolete	38
7337824977	risqué	alluding to sexual conduct in a way that is close to being indecent or in bad taste	39
7401155883	unequivocally	in a way that is clear	40
7401158170	inexorable	impossible to stop	41
7401160326	retinue	a group of people who travel with and attend to an important person	42
7401160327	insipid	lacking in character or lively qualities	43
7401162359	shamble	to walk with an unsteady or unusual gait	44
7401164586	corroborate	to give or represent evidence of the truth; to support	45
7401164587	employment	to make use of; to apply	46
7401167183	suppliant	humble towards one in power; servant-like/one who is humble	47
7401169144	tedium	quality of being boring, monotonous, too long, or repetitive	48
7401172399	torrid	full of romantic passion; sweltering; scorching	49
7409714108	impasse (n)	a point at which no further progress can be made or an agreement reached	50
7409714109	lugubrious	extremely sad, gloomy, or mournful	51
7409714110	affront (n)	an open insult or giving offense	52
7409714111	Indolent (adj)	not making an effort	53
7409714112	Connoisseur	an expert in a specific field	54
7409714113	cajole (v)	persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery	55
7409714114	blasé (adj)	unimpressed due to past experience	56
7409714115	Analogous	comparable in certain aspects	57
7409714116	Choleric	easily angered	58
7409714117	encumber	To weigh down or burden	59
7628508160	droll	amusing in a wry or odd way	60
7628508161	adulation	excessive flattery or admiration	61
7628510477	carnage	widespread and discriminate slaughter or massacre	62
7628513462	decrepit	in poor condition, especially old, overused, or not working efficiently	63
7628516196	expectorate	to cough up or spit	64
7628516197	attribute	to regard something as being caused by someone/an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity	65
7628518570	recurring	happening more than once or frequently; reptitive	66
7628518571	lethargic	physically slow and mentally dull	67
7628521423	endowed	provided, supplied, or equipped with; enriched; graced with	68
7628526929	peremptory	communicating urgency, command, or instruction	69
7702841595	prostrate	to lie flat on the face or bow very low, as in worship or humility	70
7702846300	plethora	a large amount or number of something, especially an excessive amount	71
7702877419	palpitate	to beat in an irregular or abnormally rapid way	72
7702883261	propitious	favorable and likely to lead to success; kindly disposed or gracious	73
7702890107	extricate	to release somebody or something with difficulty from a constraint or an unpleasant or complicated situation	74
7702936630	emanate	to originate from; to be produced	75
7702981153	antithesis	the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite	76
7702995692	deem	to judge or consider something in a particular light	77
7703002299	fiasco	a total failure, especially a humiliating or ludicrous one	78
7703005101	pinnacle	the highest or topmost point or level of something, a natural peak	79
7779086675	Voluble (adj)	talking easily and at length, or involving lengthy talking	80
7779086676	perspicuity	clearness, lucidity	81
7779086677	perjury	false testimony under oath	82
7779086678	flagrant (adj)	very obvious and contrary to stands of conduct or morality	83
7779086679	acquiesce	To accept without protest; to agree or submit	84
7779086680	amity (n)	friendly or peaceful relations	85
7779086681	preposterous	going very much against what is thought to be sensible or reasonable	86
7779086682	Parody (n)	a piece that deliberately copies another work in a comedic way	87
7779086683	Arduous (adj)	hard to do, requiring much effort	88
7779086684	Trepidation	A feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen	89
7834635854	Admonish (v)	warn or reprimand someone firmly.	90
7834635855	Vernacular	the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.	91
7834635856	collusion	secret agreement or cooperation	92
7834635857	Cognizant (adj)	fully informed; to know or to be aware	93
7834635858	barrage (n)	a rapid attacking or outpouring (can be used with insults)	94
7834635859	ramification (n)	consequence of an action or event, especially when complex or unwelcome	95
7834635860	unctuous	excessively smooth or smug;u npleasant	96
7834635861	Urbane (adj)	showing sophisticstion	97
7834635862	Aplomb (n.)	Confidence, self-assurance	98
7834635863	Nebulous (Adj)	Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form	99
7927039518	brazen	showing or expressing boldness and complete lack of shame	100
7927046922	inscrutable	mysterious, incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry	101
7927057928	caricature	a verbal description meant to exaggerate or distort for comic relief	102
7927070023	ennui	weariness and dissatisfaction with life that results from a loss of interest	103
7927080075	debilitate	to sap strength of somebody or something	104
7927091998	fraternize	to spend time with other people socially, especially am enemy	105
7927103704	schism	the division of a group into mutually antagonistic factions	106
7927110496	extonerate	to declare officially to be free from blame or guilt, to relieve someone from guilty	107
7927120397	sedation	a state of calm restfulness or drowsiness	108
7927125776	prognosticate	to predict or foretell future events	109
7993913026	austere	plain and simple, without luxury	110
7993917968	vehement	expressed with, or showing conviction or intense feeling	111
7993930203	strident	harsh, loud, grating, or shrill	112
7993944860	ostentatious	marked by vulgar display of wealth and success designed to impress people	113
7993957948	derisive	showing contempt or ridicule	114
7993965263	sanguine	cheerfully optimistic; flushed with a healthy rosy color	115
7993979210	corpulent	obese, overdone	116
7993982423	pompous	having excessive sense of self importance	117
7993995115	facetious	intended to be humorous but often silly or inappropriate	118
7994009415	manifest	to make something evident by showing or demonstrating it very clearly	119
8085304823	malady (n)	a physical or psychological disorder or disease	120
8085304824	allude to	refer to something/someone breifly	121
8085304825	Grievances	A cause of distress felt to warrant a complaint not well founded	122
8085304826	sequential	Forming or following a logical order or sequence.	123
8085304827	vitiate (v)	to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective	124
8085304828	remonstrance	a forceful protest	125
8085304829	profligate	extremely extravagant or wasteful	126
8085304830	nuance	sought difference in meaning, feeling, tone, or color	127
8085304831	fortuitous	happening by chance	128
8085304832	fecund	prolific, fruitful, fertile	129
8085304833	status quo	the accepted or given situation, the usual	130
8204877038	repartee	conversation consisting of witty remarks; a witty remark	131
8204889356	incendiary	able to catch fire spontaneously or cause a fire easily	132
8204902953	periphery	the area around the edge of a place	133
8204905696	emissary	an agent or representative sent on a particular mission	134
8204916830	venerable	worthy of respect as a result of great age, wisdom, remarkable achievements	135
8204928058	brigand	a bandit operation in wild or isolated terrain, band of thieves	136
8204935507	felicity	happiness or contentment	137
8204938580	magnanimous	very generous, kind, or forgiving	138
8204951415	ubiquitous	present everywhere at once, or seeming to be	139
8283598786	garrulous	given to excessive, rambling talk	140
8283710740	gratuitous	given freely; unearned; unwarranted	141
8283715888	sonorous	having or producing sound	142
8283719922	stupor	a state of reduced or suspended sensibility	143
8283727085	frenetic	wildy excited or active	144
8283731918	ruse	a crafty trick, a con, scam	145
8283736715	egregious	conspicuously bad or offensive, flagrant	146
8283742812	pander	to cater to the lower tastes and desires of others to exploit their weaknesses; flatter	147
8283751563	propriety	appropriateness of behavior	148
8283758567	innate	possessed at birth; inborn	149
8603192256	resolute	characterized by firmness or determination	150
8603194273	vanquish	to defeat or conquer in battle	151
8603196881	meet	appropriate	152
8603200228	rendezvous	prearranged meeting place	153
8603201679	amorous	strongly attracted to love	154
8603203460	languid	lacking energy or vitality	155
8603208264	extol	to praise lavishly	156
8603209996	dissolute	lacking in moral restraint	157
8603211731	turgid	over distended, bloated	158
8603216160	ebullient	overflowing with enthusiasm or exuberance	159
8668256808	pernicious	deadly, causing great harm	160
8668258959	fatuous	unconsciously stupid, asinine, inane	161
8668262614	writhe	to twist or squirm as in pain	162
8668267456	incredulous	disbelieving, skeptical	163
8668270115	furtive	characterized by stealth, shifty, sneaky	164
8668275001	interminable	never ending	165
8668282569	obliquely	in an indirect or evasive manner	166
8668284776	acute	keenly perceptive, shrewd	167
8668287278	obtuse	slow to comprehend, not astute	168
8668291174	febrile	feverish	169
8747054929	labyrinth	maze, puzzle	170
8747057606	obfuscate	to render indistinct or dim, to darken, to confuse	171
8747071843	primeval	original, belonging to the first ages	172
8747074478	effusive	spread out, exuding, flowing	173
8747078400	beseech	beg earnestly	174
8747085834	pathos	quality that arouses feelings of sympathy	175
8747102427	capitulate	to surrender under certain terms, to give up	176
8747106753	astute	keen in judgment , crafty	177
8747111887	solicitous	anxious and concerned, attentive	178
8747115102	deprecating	to lessen the price or value of	179
8825075366	prodigal	extravagantly wasteful	180
8825081815	albeit	although	181
8825081817	sinecure	job that requires no work but provides compensation	182
8825088971	prolixity	wordiness, verbosity	183
8825095328	visage	facial features, especially as an indicator of emotions	184
8825100860	presage	an indication or warning of future occurrence	185
8825106594	bereave	to leave desolate, especially by death	186
8825108372	gratis	free of charge	187
8825111324	intercession	entreaty in favor of another	188
8825113684	lineament	distinctive shape, contour	189
8904938192	accouterment	the act of preparing for duty, obligation	190
8904947616	pertinacity	stubbornness	191
8904955515	viand	an article of food	192
8904971592	impunity	exemption from penalty or punishment	193
8904973498	accordant	in agreement or harmony	194
8904975549	impute	to ascribe crime or fault to another	195
8904980425	parapet	low protective wall	196
8904983188	deportment	conduct or demeanor	197
8904985345	temperance	condition or quality of being moderate, restrained	198
8904990937	surly	sullenly rude and ill-humored	199
8983838477	sundry	various	200
8983839773	ponderous	heavy, cumbersome	201
8983841348	enigma	puzzle, riddle	202
8983844625	copious	large in quantity	203
8983848802	irksome	causing annoyance or bother	204
8983850161	habiliments	the dress or style associated with an office or occasion	205
8983854277	brevity	quality of being brief	206
8983856744	aesthetic	of or pertaining to a sense of the beautiful	207
8983859415	inwardly	on or in the inside, within, privately	208
8983865913	scrupulous	principled , having morals	209
9057014568	curate	clergyman	210
9057014570	reverie	daydream, trance	211
9057016284	nonplus	state of perplexity or bafflement	212
9057018341	confound	to cause to become confused, bewilder	213
9057028803	gambol	to leap about playfully, frolic	214
9057030533	mutability	ability to change, adapt	215
9057033006	quail	to lose courage, cower	216
9057035258	ethereal	highly refined, delicate, heavenly	217
9057037739	pedantic	scholarly, but with no basis on experience or practicality	218
9057043655	nascent	coming into existence, emerging	219
9141944026	equivocal	capable of two interpretations, evasive	220
9141948765	resplendent	filled with splendor, brilliant	221
9141952079	hinder	to hold back, be in the way, hamper, delay	222
9141956860	dubious	fraught with uncertainty or doubt, arousing doubt or uncertainty	223
9141966281	corporeal	of a material nature, tangible	224
9141967906	derive	to obtain or receive from a source	225
9141973218	ruminate	to meditate at length, muse	226
9141977502	errant	roving, especially in search of adventure	227
9141983942	zest	added flavor or interest	228
9141986218	goad	provoke into action	229
9221564861	vexation	a source of irritation or annoyance	230
9221568392	rigor	strictness or severity as in temperament, action, or judgement	231
9221572780	beget	to cause to exist	232
9221575540	recourse	a turning or applying to a person or thing for aid	233
9221577824	discourse	verbal expression in speech or writing	234
9221582675	exploit	to employ to the greatest possible advantage or an adventure, act, or deed	235
9221586005	assail	to attack violently, assault	236
9221588972	garrison	to assign troops to a military post or convert to a military post	237
9221593900	vigilant	on alert, watchful	238
9221595676	denote	to reveal or indicate, mark	239