AP Literature Vocab #1 Flashcards
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| 3046376850 | Acquisitive | (adj.) able to get and to retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property | 0 | |
| 3046376851 | Arrogate | (v.) to claim or take without right | 1 | |
| 3046376852 | Banal | (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace | 2 | |
| 3046376853 | Belabor | (v.) to work excessively; to thrash soundly | 3 | |
| 3046376854 | Carping | (adj.) tending to find fault (criticism), especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism | 4 | |
| 3046376855 | Coherent | (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful | 5 | |
| 3046376856 | Congeal | (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid | 6 | |
| 3046376857 | Emulate | (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model | 7 | |
| 3046376858 | Encomium | (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute | 8 | |
| 3046376859 | Eschew | (v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from | 9 | |
| 3046376860 | Excoriation | (n.) a strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin | 10 | |
| 3046376861 | Germane | (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos | 11 | |
| 3046376862 | Insatiable | (adj.) so great or demanding that it cannot be satisfied | 12 | |
| 3046376863 | Intransigent | (adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconciliable | 13 | |
| 3046376864 | Invidious | (adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment | 14 | |
| 3046376865 | Largesse | (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions | 15 | |
| 3046376866 | Ramify | (v.) to divide and spread out like branches; to separate into divisions | 16 | |
| 3046376867 | Reconnaissance | (n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination ex: reconissance mission to map out enemies | 17 | |
| 3046376868 | Substantiate | (v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to | 18 | |
| 3046376869 | Taciturn | (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little ex: Matthew | 19 | |
| 3046376870 | Temporize | (v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise | 20 | |
| 3046376871 | Tenable | (adj.) capable of being held or defended | 21 |