UNIT 3 AP Language Vocab. Flashcards
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| 5898546934 | ad hominem | adj. - appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect | 0 | |
| 5898550365 | arduous | adj. - hard to accomplish or achieve : difficult | 1 | |
| 5898550366 | churlish | adj. : marked by a lack of civility or graciousness | 2 | |
| 5898552785 | circumlocution | noun : the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea or invasion of speech | 3 | |
| 5898552786 | condemnation | noun : censure or blame | 4 | |
| 5898555293 | derisive | adj. : expressing or causing contemptuous ridicule or scorn | 5 | |
| 5898555294 | detractors | noun : of to speak ill of or taking away | 6 | |
| 5898558434 | didactic | adj. : designed or intended to teach | 7 | |
| 5898558435 | esoteric | adj. : designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone or requiring or exhibiting knowledge that is restricted to a small group | 8 | |
| 5898560402 | euphonious | adj. : pleasing to the ear | 9 | |
| 5898564612 | exploitation | noun : an act or instance of exploiting | 10 | |
| 5898566797 | gallantry | noun : spirited and conspicuous bravery | 11 | |
| 5898569670 | inimitable | adj. : not capable of being imitated | 12 | |
| 5898569671 | invective | adj. : of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse | 13 | |
| 5898571747 | motif | noun : a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts); especially : a dominant idea or central theme | 14 | |
| 5898571748 | mortification | noun : the subjection and denial of bodily passions and appetites by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort | 15 | |
| 5898580029 | obsequious | adj. : marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness | 16 | |
| 5898580030 | pedantic | adj. : unimaginative | 17 | |
| 5898583306 | provincial | noun : the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order or one living in or coming from a province | 18 | |
| 5898583307 | reprehensible | adj. : worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable | 19 | |
| 5898586331 | sublime | verb : to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form or to convert into higher worth | 20 | |
| 5898586332 | trite | ad. : hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original | 21 | |
| 5898586333 | unimpeachable | adj. : reliable beyond a doubt | 22 | |
| 5898589845 | usurp | verb : to seize and hold (as office, place, or powers) in possession by force or without right | 23 | |
| 5898590774 | veritable | adj. : being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary —often used to stress the aptness of a metaphor | 24 |