AP Language Week 6 Flashcards

7581826097	Abhor	to hate or loathe	0
7581826098	Acquiesce	to agree to; to submit	1
7581826099	Admonitory	conveying a warning or reprimand	2
7581826100	Ameliorate	to make better	3
7581826101	Caustic	severely critical or sarcastic	4
7581826102	Ceremonial	relating to or used for formal events	5
7581826103	Colloquial	informal or casual speech; sometimes referred to as slang	6
7581826104	Debase	to lower in rank, dignity, or significance	7
7581826105	Deferential	Respectful	8
7581826106	Disparage	to speak ill or negatively of someone	9
7581826107	Elegiac	having a mournful quality	10
7581826108	Esoteric	belonging to a few; having obscure knowledge	11
7581826109	Inane	silly or stupid; foolish	12
7581826110	Incredulous	unbelieving	13
7581826111	Indolence	characterized as lazy or avoiding exertion	14
7581826112	Insolence	rude speech or behavior	15
7581826113	Laud	to praise	16
7581826114	Petulant	childishly sulky	17
7581826115	Poignant	affecting the emotions; deeply impactful or affecting	18
7581826116	Provincial	limited in perspective; narrow-minded	19
7581826117	Querulous	full of complaints	20
7581826118	Reflective	meditative; thinking on	21
7581826119	Ruminate	to mediate or ponder on; ruminative	22
7581826120	Trite	over used; worn out	23
7581826121	Verbose	wordy	24
7581826122	Inversion / Inverted sentence	an unusual change in the order of words in a sentence Example: A blueberry muffin Steven ate for breakfast Effect: emphasis, syntax reflects/mirrors purpose	25
7581826123	Isocolon	a series of similarly structured sentences with similar length Effect: pace	26
7581826124	Mesodiplosis	repetition of a word or phrases in the middle of consecutive sentences Effect: emphasis	27
7581826125	Parison	corresponding structure in a series of phrases or clauses Example: The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Effect: pace, structure, emphasis	28
7581826126	Pontificate	to speak in an arrogant way; to expound or explain an idea in detail	29