AP English Language Vocab Semester 1 Flashcards
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| 7264994893 | acclimate | adjust to climate or environment; adapt |  | 0 |
| 7264998761 | ebullient | (adj.) overflowing with enthusiasm and excitement; boiling, bubbling |  | 1 |
| 7265002063 | fatuous | (adj.) stupid or foolish in a self-satisfied way |  | 2 |
| 7265005153 | consensus | a general agreement |  | 3 |
| 7265006459 | megalomania | a delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc., far in excess of reality |  | 4 |
| 7265009830 | milieu | (n.) the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops |  | 5 |
| 7265016123 | pernicious | (adj.) highly injurious or destructive |  | 6 |
| 7265019210 | ruminate | (vb.) to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly |  | 7 |
| 7265023639 | tenacity | (n.) the quality or state of being persistent |  | 8 |
| 7265031962 | visage | (n.) the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal |  | 9 |
| 7269186998 | Countenance | facial expression (n); to accept, support, or approve of something (vb) |  | 10 |
| 7269186999 | Felicity | (n) happiness or blissfulness |  | 11 |
| 7269187000 | Gravity | (n) seriousness or importance |  | 12 |
| 7269187001 | Integrity | (n) firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values; incorruptibility |  | 13 |
| 7269187002 | Propriety | (n) being proper, suitable, appropriate |  | 14 |
| 7399529814 | Objectivity | N. The quality of being fair, impartial, neutral |  | 15 |
| 7399529815 | Languid (adj) | Dropping as if from exhaustion; sluggish in character or disposition |  | 16 |
| 7399529816 | vestige (n) | A trace, mark or visible sign left by something (such as an ancient city or a condition or practice) ancient or lost |  | 17 |
| 7399529817 | assert (v) | state of fact or belief confidently and forcefully |  | 18 |
| 7399529818 | assertion (n.) | A confident and forceful statement of fact or belief |  | 19 |
| 7399529819 | Chicanery (n.) | The use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose |  | 20 |
| 7475061785 | Analogous | comparable |  | 21 |
| 7475061786 | Egalitarian | Believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities |  | 22 |
| 7475061787 | malfeasance | wrongdoing or bad conduct by a public official |  | 23 |
| 7475061788 | Refute (v) | Prove to be wrong or false |  | 24 |
| 7475061789 | soporific | sleep-inducing |  | 25 |
| 8361876918 | connotation | (n) an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning |  | 26 |
| 8361902949 | maxim | (n) a pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct |  | 27 |
| 8361924906 | dichotomy | (n) a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different logic |  | 28 |
| 8361944967 | equivocate | (v) use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself |  | 29 |
| 8361968949 | anthropomorphic | (adj) the attribution or behavior to a god, animal or object |  | 30 |
| 8362004200 | obscure | (adj) not clear or plain; vague |  | 31 |
| 8362016514 | slander | (n) a false, malicious, and defamatory statement; to defame |  | 32 |
| 8362036870 | complaisant | (adj) agreeable; gracious |  | 33 |
| 8362046181 | pithy | (adj) concise and forcefully expressed |  | 34 |
| 8362053119 | anecdote | (n) short account of an incident |  | 35 |
| 8362069985 | impartial | (adj) treating all rivals or disputants equally, fair and just |  | 36 |
| 8362084650 | prosaic | (adj) commonplace or dull; ordinary |  | 37 |
| 8362095384 | syntax | (n) the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-framed sentences in a language |  | 38 |
| 8362114228 | prodigious | (adj) remarkably or impressively great in extent , size or degree |  | 39 |
| 8362129981 | euphemism | (n) the act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considerable harsh, blunt or offensive |  | 40 |
| 8362154811 | paradigm | (n) a typical pattern of something; a model |  | 41 |
| 8362165808 | dialectic | (adj) the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions |  | 42 |
| 8362182045 | Vignette | (n) a brief evocative description; account or episode |  | 43 |
| 8362197538 | vitriolic | (adj) filled with bitter criticism |  | 44 |
| 8362211104 | Truncated | (v) shorten (something) by cutting off the top or the end |  | 45 |
| 8362225140 | discourse | (n) written or spoken communication or debate |  | 46 |
| 8362235449 | vilify | (v) to utter slanderous and abusive statements against |  | 47 |
| 8362250200 | colloquial | (n) pertaining to words or expressions more suitable for speech than writing; in informal, conventional style |  | 48 |
| 8362273323 | premise | (n) a previous statement or proposition from which another is inferred or follows as a conclusion |  | 49 |
| 8362292861 | farce | (n) a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations |  | 50 |