AP Vocabulary Lists Flashcards

5346300159	ameliorate	make better	0
5346300160	detrimental	cause harm or injury	1
5346301436	impediment	something immaterial that interferes with action or progress	2
5346301437	subvert	overthrow from the very foundation; ruin	3
5346302452	indolent	disinclined to work or exertion	4
5346303398	alacrity	liveliness and eagerness	5
5346303399	bane	something causing misery or death	6
5346303400	wane	a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)	7
5346305329	inane	devoid of intelligence	8
5346305330	caustic	harsh or corrosive in tone	9
5346305331	peruse	examine or consider with attention and in detail	10
5346308174	admonish	scold or reprimand; take to task	11
5346309315	ephemeral	anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day	12
5346309316	immerse	enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing	13
5346309317	abhor	find repugnant	14
5346310327	parsimonious	excessively unwilling to spend	15
5346310328	invalid	someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury	16
5346310329	raze	tear down so as to make flat with the ground	17
5346310330	tractable	easily managed	18
5346335047	invalid	sickly or disabled person	19
5346337736	raze	tear down to the ground or destroy utterly	20
5346338816	retort	sharp reply; OR to reply sharply	21
5346340256	tractable	easily led or managed	22
5453811019	score	a set of twenty	23
5453811020	unwittingly	unintentionally; not on purpose	24
5453811021	hamper	to prevent progress	25
5453813595	effrontery	shameless boldness; audacious behavior	26
5453813596	prodigious	great in size, extent, or degree	27
5682795575	convivial	social; fond of drinking and eating with one's cronies	28
5682796706	salutary	healthful	29
5682796707	uwieldy	difficult to manage because of size or weight	30
5682800850	complacent	too pleased with oneself	31
5682800851	elated	extremely happy; in high spirits	32
5762627978	concur	to agree	33
5762627979	novice	a beginner	34
5762628810	dulcet	soothing	35
5762637870	virtuous	morally excellent	36
5762639471	foil	prevent from being successful	37
5762643670	parallelism	uses the same grammatical structure for similar elements	38
5762648087	antithesis	points out the difference between two juxtaposed ideas rather than similarities	39
5762652021	parenthesis	allows for the writer to interrupt the flow of a passage and add an additional point	40
5763588139	appositive	a clause or phrase used to further explain or identify another element in the sentence.	41
5763610023	asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between related phrases or clauses	42
5763627893	alliteration	repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words	43
5763634270	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of tow more adjacent words	44
5763641694	anaphora	is the repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive clauses	45
5763788490	epistrophe	the repetition of the same group of the words at the end of successive clauses	46
5771029816	synechdoche	using a part of a whole to represent the whole OR using the whole to represent a particular part	47
5771035087	metonymy	referring to something by something associated with it	48
5855775930	pensive	thoughtful in a sad way	49
5855777312	buxom	plump and attractive	50
5855778964	haggard	careworn or gaunt; dishelveled	51
5855788208	obsequious	eagerly willing to serve someone	52
5855791540	lackey	someone who follows another and carries out his or her wishes	53
6359962884	dubious	doubtful	54
6359962885	pugnacious	quarrelsome	55
6359954764	esoteric	intended for a small group of people with specialized knowledge	56
6359952562	aesthetic	concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty	57
6359943955	gregarious	social	58
6359956853	infamous	notoriously evil	59
6359943956	plausible	possible; probable	60
6359942088	reticent	silent	61
6359954765	denotation	dictionary definition of a word	62
6359942089	garrulous	annoyingly talkative	63