AP Language: SAT Vocabulary Flashcards

5928895197	Abstruse	Hard to understand	0
5928895198	Pious	Religiously devoted	1
6015429934	Disparate	Essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison	2
5928895200	Euphemism	A mild substitution for a harsh word Ex. Passed away instead of died	3
5928895201	Tentative	Unsure, hesitant, not certain or fixed	4
5928895202	Emphatic	Giving emphasis forcibly and clearly	5
5928895203	Sensationalize	Present information in a way that provokes public interest	6
5928895204	Unrequited	Not returned	7
5928895205	Envy	A feeling of discontent	8
5928895206	Recompense	Repay, make amends, compensate	9
5928895207	Qualifies	Balance	10
5928895208	Reiterate	Multiple explanations for clarity; restate, repeat	11
5928895209	Refute	Prove to be wrong or false	12
5928895210	Allusion	Expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly	13
5928895211	Rhetorical	Effective or persuasive writing through figures of speech and compositional writing	14
5928895212	Linguistic	Language	15
5928895213	Pretentious	Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance	16
5928895214	Disparage	Represent or regard as being of little worth	17
5928895215	Ephemeral	Lasting a short time	18
5928895216	Gratitude	Quality of being thankful	19
5928895217	Censure	Express severe disapproval, typically in a formal statement	20
5928895218	Protracted	Long lasting, longer than expected	21
5928895219	Prominent	(Of a person) great importance	22
5928895220	Drudge	A person made to do hard, menial, dull work	23
5928895221	Lexicographer	A person who compiles dictionaries	24
5928895222	Academicians	An intellectual	25
5928895223	Hitherto	Until now	26
5928895224	Exuberance	A quality of being full of excitement and happiness	27
5928895225	Caprices	A sudden or unaccountable change in mood or behavior	28
5928895226	Amidst	Surroundings, surrounded by, in the middle of	29
5928895227	Malignant	Wishing to do evil to others, malevolent	30
5928895228	Immutably	Unchanging over time or unable to be changed	31
5928895229	Delusive	Giving a false or misleading expression	32
5928895230	Undercut	1. To tear away 2. Offer goods or services at a lower price	33
5928895231	Undaunted	Not intimidated or discouraged by difficulty, danger, or disappointment	34
5928895232	Treachery	Betrayal of trust	35
5928895234	Surpass	Exceed	36
5928895235	Subjective	Based on personal feeling, tastes or opinions	37
5928895236	Serenity	State of being calm, peaceful, untroubled	38
5928895237	Sensibility	The ability to appreciate complex emotional or aesthetic influences	39
5928895238	Regal	Being fit esp. in magnificence or dignified	40
5928895239	Predecessors	A person who held a job or office before the current holder	41
5928895240	Phenomena	Something that manifests itself from a person's perception; it's not often understood	42
5928895241	Pervasive	Spreading widely throughout an area or group of people	43
5928895242	Erratic	Unpredictable, irregular	44
5928895243	Inanimate	Not alive	45
5928895244	Jeremiads	A long, mournful complaint or lamentation	46
5928895245	Magnanimity	Generosity	47
5928895246	Nomenclature	The devising or choosing of names for things esp. in science	48
5928895247	Objective	Fact	49
5928895248	Dubious	Hesitating or doubting	50
5928895249	Dyspeptic	Of or hhaving indigestion or constant irritability	51
5928895250	Dispense	Distribute, supply, provide	52
5928895251	Discursive	Digressing from subject to subject	53
5928895252	Digressive	Tending to depart from main subject	54
5928895253	Difinitive	Done or reached decisively and with authority	55
5928895254	Depicting	Show or represent through art forms (I.e. Drawing or painting)	56
5928895255	Ascertain	Find (something) out for certian	57
5928895256	Advisability	The quality of being sensible	58
5928895257	Antecedent	A thing that existed or preceded before something	59
5928895258	Incisive	Intelligently analytical and intellectual	60
5928895259	Insolent	Showing a rude or lack of arrogant respect	61
5928895260	Prepositions	A word that expresses the relation of a noun or pronoun (I.e. On, after, before, etc.)	62
5928895261	Introspection	The examination or inspection of one's own emotional and/or mental processes	63
5928895262	Jocund	Cheerful and lighthearted	64
5928895263	Jovial	Cheerful and friendly	65
5928895264	Laudatory	(Of a speech or writing) expressing praise or commendation	66
5928895265	Lethargic	Sluggish and apathetic	67
5928895266	Apathetic	Showing no interest, enthusiasm, or concern	68
5928895267	Lugubrious	Looking or sounding sad or dismal	69
5928895268	Lyrical	Expressing the the writers emotions in an imaginative and beautiful way	70
5928895269	Naive	Innocent, showing lack of experience or wisdom	71
5928895270	Nostalgic	Exhibiting a sentimental longing for the past	72
5928895271	Ornamental	Decorative	73
5928895272	Parochial	Relating to a church's small administrative district	74
5928895273	Pessimistic	Tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen	75
5928895274	Resentful	Feeling or expressing bitterness or indignation at having being treated unfairly	76
5928895275	Reticent	Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily	77
5928895276	Sanguine	Optimistic, positive	78
5928895277	Self-Depreciating	Modesty about criticism of one's self	79
5928895278	Vitriolic	Filled with bitter criticism or malice	80
5928895279	Whimsical	Playfully quaint (unusual, old-fashioned) or fanciful (over imaginative, unrealistic) esp. In an appealing or amusing way	81
5928895280	Wistful	Having or feeling of vague or regretful longing	82
5928895281	Wry	1. Expressing dry esp. mocking humor 2. (of a person' s face features) twisted in an expression of disgust, disappointment, or annoyance	83
5928895282	Zealous	Having or showing great energy or enthusiasm	84
5928895283	Abashed	Embarrassed, ashamed, discontented	85
5928895284	Ambiguous	Multiple interpretations	86
5928895285	Ambivalent	Mixed/contradictory feeling	87
5928895286	Arch	Deliberately playful and teasing	88
5928895287	Brusque	Abrupt or offhand speech/manner	89
5928895288	Choleric	Bad tempered, irritable	90
5928895289	Combative	Ready, eager to fight	91
5928895290	Contemplative	Prolonged thought	92
5928895291	Conciliatory	Likely to placate: to make someone less angry or hostile	93
5928895292	Condescending	Patronizing superiority	94
5928895293	Contemptuous	Scornful, showing worthlessness	95
5928895294	Cynicism	An inclination to believe that people are motivated by self-interest	96
5928895295	Derisive	Contemptuous mockery or ridicule	97
5928895296	Didactic	Teaching, instruction	98
5928895364	Foreboding	A feeling that something bad will happen	99
5928895365	Flippant	Not showing a serious or respectful attitude	100
5928895366	Fatalistic	The belief in predetermined events; an inevitable future	101
5928895367	Euphoric	Feeling intense excitement and happiness	102
5928895368	Enigmatic	Difficult to understand	103
5928895369	Emphatic	Giving emphasis forcibly and clearly	104
5928895370	Effusive	Expressing gratitude and approval in a heart felt manner	105
5928895371	Earnest	Sincere, intense conviction	106
5928895372	Diffident	Modest or shy because of lack or confidence	107
5928895373	Paradox	A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement that may be well founded or true	108
5928895374	Elegiac	Having a mournful quality	109
5928895375	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction	110
5928895376	Onomatopoeia	A formation of a word from a sound that was made	111
5928895377	Unqualified assertion	Incompetent forceful statements of fact or belief	112
5928895378	Counterbalance	Balance; neutralize or cancel by exerting an opposite influence	113
5928895379	Colloquial Expression	Conversational language (I.e. What's up?)	114
5928895380	Rebuttal	Contradiction	115
5928895381	Parody	An imitation of the style of a particular writer for a comic effect	116
5928895382	Proposal	A plan or suggestion esp. a formal or written one used for consideration	117
5928895383	Parallelism	The state of corresponding in some way	118
5928895384	Expository	Intended to explain or describe something	119
5928895385	Enunciate	Say or pronounce clearly	120
5928895386	Enumerate	Mention multiple things one by one	121
5928895387	Abstraction	The quality of dealing with ideas rather than events	122
5928895388	Anecdote	A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	123
5928895389	Antithesis	The contrast or opposition between two things	124
5928895390	Appeal to Authority	Ethos	125
6015429935	Ensuing	Happen to occur afterward or as a result of	126
6015429936	Pedestrian	Lacking inspiration or excitement; dull	127
6015429937	Juxtaposition	The fact of two things being placed or seen close together with contrasting effect	128
6015429938	Blatant	Done openly and unashamedly; very obvious	129
6015429939	Abbreviated	Shortened; cut short	130
6015429940	Assert	State a fact of belief confidently or forcefully	131
6015429941	Elaborate	Involving many carefully arranged parts or details	132
6015429942	Hypothetical	Supposed but not necessarily real or true	133
6015429943	Prudent	Acting or showing thought or care for the future	134
6015429944	Fervent	Having or displaying a passionate intensity	135
6015429945	Detached	Separate or disconnected; not joined together	136
6015429946	Pioneer	The first to develop, use, or find	137
6015429947	Antecedent	Prexisting	138
6015429948	Diligence	Careful and persistent work or effort	139
6015429949	Footnote	Information printed at the bottom of the page; additional or less important information	140
6015429950	Attributed	Regard something as being caused by	141
6015429951	Preface	The introduction to a books	142
6015429952	Pupil	A student in schoolwork	143
6015429953	Rubbish	Waste material, refuse or litter	144
6015429954	Bestow	Confer, present, give	145
6015429955	Reproach	Address in such a way to express disapproval or disappointment	146
6015429956	Solicitous	Showing concern or interest; anxious to do something	147
6015429957	Patronage	Supports given by a patron	148
6015429958	Obscurities	The state of being unknown, unimportant; the quality of being difficult to understand	149
6015429959	Comprised	Consist, be made up of	150
6015429960	Aggregated	A combination of units or data (in science)	151
6015429961	Avail	Use or take advantage of, help or benefit	152
6015429962	Citing	Quote as evidence for or justification of an argument or statement esp. in scholarly work	153
6015429963	Testimony	A formal written or spoken statement, proof in court	154
6015429964	Commendation	Praise, an award involving special praise	155
6015429965	Complications	A circumstance that complicates or confuses something; a difficulty	156
6015429966	Deflect	Cause something to change direction by interposing something; turn aside from a straight course	157
6015429967	Pretentiousness	Attempting to impress by greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed	158
6015429968	Credentials	A qualification, achievement, personal quality, or aspect of a person's background, typically when used to indicate that they are suitable for something	159
6015429969	Rhetorical stance	The position of a speaker or writer, in relation to audience, topic, and ituational context	160
6015429970	Fruits of revision	The benefits of revising, the after affects of gooddoing	161
6015429971	Common language	Informal, conversational talk or language	162
6015429972	Metaphorical reference	A Q	163
6015429976	Critical acclaim		164