AP Language Unit 2 Flashcards
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| 7605461351 | Accost | (v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |  | 0 |
| 7605464377 | Animadversion | (n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |  | 1 |
| 7605481512 | Avid | (adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |  | 2 |
| 7605484552 | Brackish | (adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |  | 3 |
| 7605489714 | Celerity | (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |  | 4 |
| 7605492126 | Devious | (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |  | 5 |
| 7605494533 | Gambit | (n.) in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |  | 6 |
| 7605505314 | Halcyon | (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |  | 7 |
| 7605508492 | Histrionic | (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |  | 8 |
| 7605511993 | Incendiary | (adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir p strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife |  | 9 |
| 7605513873 | Maelstrom | (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |  | 10 |
| 7605516228 | Myopic | (adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |  | 11 |
| 7605521205 | Overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |  | 12 |
| 7605524403 | Pejorative | (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |  | 13 |
| 7605526852 | Propriety | (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |  | 14 |
| 7605530732 | Sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |  | 15 |
| 7605535945 | Summarily | (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |  | 16 |
| 7605539316 | Suppliant | (adv.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |  | 17 |
| 7605543779 | Talisman | (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed o confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |  | 18 |
| 7605545562 | Undulate | (v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |  | 19 |