AP HOD Vocab Flashcards

7985501083	oxymoron	a contradiction in terms	0
7985536315	lugubrious	excessively mournful	1
7985536316	irreverent	showing lack of due respect or veneration	2
7985836745	placid	calm, peaceful	3
7985836746	venerable	profoundly honored	4
7985836747	brooding	preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts	5
7985841673	gregarious	enjoying the company of others, sociable	6
7985841674	demonstrative	expressing emotion freely	7
7985844280	periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	8
7985847036	cumulative sentence	sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	9
7985849891	compound-complex sentence	at least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses	10
7985969128	epanalepsis	repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause	11
7985972972	dirgelike	like a solemn, mournful piece of music; depressing	12
7985972973	mordant	(adj.) biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh	13
7985975762	saccharine	excessively sweet or sentimental	14
7985975763	sanguine	optimistic	15
7985978487	perfunctory	done without care; in a routine fashion superficial; performed really as a duty	16
7985978488	onerous	troublesome and oppressive; burdensome	17
7985978489	anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	18
7985982806	polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	19
7985985422	sordid	(adj.) wretchedly poor; run-down; mean or selfish	20
7986004253	farce	broad comedy; mockery; humorous play full of silly things happening; ADJ. farcical	21
7986008815	antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	22
7986008816	vacillation	wavering, going back and forth	23
7986012833	imagistic	aims to capture a moment and help us experience that moment sensually (through our senses) e.g	24
7986012834	man-of-war	a warship, often a large sailing ship, bearing canons and other guns	25
7986015542	asyndeton	a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	26
7986018571	metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	27
7986018572	drollery	something that has a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality	28
7986021052	incredulity	the state of being unwilling or unable to believe something	29
7986024773	vitriol	cruel and bitter criticism	30