AP Lang List 4 Flashcards
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| 6933277497 | Belligerent | hostile and aggressive. | 0 | |
| 6933277498 | Pretentious | attempting to impress by pretending to have greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. | 1 | |
| 6933277499 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered. | 2 | |
| 6933277500 | Exemplify | be a typical example of. | 3 | |
| 6933277501 | Exacting | making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources. | 4 | |
| 6933277502 | Detached | separate or disconnected, in particular. | 5 | |
| 6933277503 | Haughty | arrogantly superior and disdainful. | 6 | |
| 6933277504 | Circumspection | the quality of being wary and unwilling to take risks; prudence. | 7 | |
| 6933277505 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical strategy in which words or phrases are placed in reverse order, or a modified form; Ex: Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. | 8 | |
| 6933277506 | Fallacy | a failure in reasoning that renders an argument invalid. | 9 |