AP Lit - Acts 2 - 5 Vocabulary Flashcards

8112095316	Perforce	by physical coercion	0
8112095317	Dullard	a slow or stupid person.	1
8112095394	Indiscretion	behavior or speech that is indiscreet or displays a lack of good judgment.	2
8112097558	Embossed	carve, mold, or stamp (a design) in relief on a surface or object.	3
8112097559	Chide	scold or rebuke.	4
8112097560	Superfluous	unnecessary, especially through being more than enough.	5
8112097561	Contentious	causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial.	6
8112099461	Tempest	a violent windy storm.	7
8112099462	Quagmire	an awkward, complex, or hazardous situation.	8
8112101736	Pendulous	hanging down loosely.	9
8112101737	Empathy	the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.	10
8112101738	Beget	give rise to; bring about.	11
8112101739	Benediction	the utterance or bestowing of a blessing	12
8112103937	Bereaved	be deprived of a loved one through a profound absence, especially due to the loved one's death.	13
8112103938	Verbals	A verbal is a verb form which functions as a noun or an adjective. In English, there are three types of verbals: Participles (past participles and present participles). Gerunds Infinitives	14
8112103939	Renounce	formally declare one's abandonment of (a claim, right, or possession).	15
8112103940	Beguile	charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way.	16
8112103990	Affliction	something that causes pain or suffering.	17
8112106086	Perceptions	the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.	18
8112106087	Allusiveness	having reference to something implied or inferred; containing, abounding in, or characterized by allusions.	19
8112106088	Reverence	deep respect for someone or something.	20
8112106089	Nimble	quick and light in movement or action; agile.	21
8112106090	Wrought	archaic past and past participle of work.	22
8112108582	Static	lacking in movement, action, or change, especially in a way viewed as undesirable or uninteresting.	23
8112108583	Lucid	expressed clearly; easy to understand. Bright or luminous	24
8112111351	Ellipsis	the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.	25
8112114132	Parallelism	the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.	26