AP English Language Vocab Flashcards

8672749753	absolutes	a choice in which something mus be one way or the other	0
8672751501	abstract	not applied to actual objects	1
8672753070	acquired	developed or learned	2
8672755467	active voice	any sentence with an active verb	3
8672757944	aesthetic	appreciation of beauty	4
8672766290	affable	easy-going or friendly	5
8672768793	alienated	removed from society	6
8672770488	alleviate	to ease a pain or burden	7
8672773004	alliance	a union of two or more groupps	8
8672773005	alliteration	repetition of a phonetic sound at the beginning of several words	9
8672776672	allusion	a reference that recalls another work	10
8672783606	ambiguity	not a clear meaning	11
8672810229	abiguous	open to interpretation	12
8672812810	ambivalent	having opposing feelings	13
8672815644	amenable	agreeable	14
8672815647	ample	having a large amount	15
8672819696	analogy	a term that signifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects	16
8672846583	antithesis	an observation or claim that is in opposition to your claim or an author's claim	17
8672850526	apathetic	having or showing little emotion	18
8672863755	apology	defense of an idea	19
8672875737	apparatus	equipment	20
8672880238	appositive	a noun phrase placed as another explanation	21
8672883120	apprehension	fear of anxiety of the future	22
8672889976	arbitrary	determined by impulse rather than reason	23
8672894093	archaic	old fashioned	24
8672896280	archetype	a perfect example; an original pattern	25
8672897970	argumentation	process of forming reason, justifying beliefs, or drawing conclusions with the aim of influencing the thoughts, actions, or beliefs of others	26
8672908370	argument from ignorance	argument stating something is true because it hasn't been proven false	27
8672911443	arid	dry (climate)	28
8672914063	assertion	a declaration or statement	29
8672915548	astute	clever	30
8672924788	asylum	a place of retreat or security	31
8672928268	austere	strict	32
8672930747	bandwagon	"everyone's doing it" fallacy	33
8681725946	benevolent	generous	34
8681727079	benign	gentle	35
8681728538	biased	prejudiced	36
8681728539	brittle	easily broken	37
8681730073	camaraderie	good will between friends	38
8681731567	candor	honesty and openness	39
8681733013	catalog	an itemized list	40
8681735125	cause and effect	"after this, therefore because of this"	41
8681738373	cause/effect	one event brings about the other event	42
8681741463	clandestine	secretive	43
8681741464	clarity	clearness in expression	44
8681743007	coherent	logically connected	45
8681745232	cohesive	sticking together	46
8681746435	compare/contrast	identifying similarities and differences between things	47
8681747795	compelling	forceful	48
8681749721	complex	sentence structure that is a combination of a dependent clause and an independent clause	49
8681910693	compound complex	a compound and a complex sentence	50
8681912094	compound	two independent clauses joined together by a coordination conjunction	51
8681915035	comprehensive	large in content	52
8681916512	conception	to form and understand an idea	53
8681916546	condemn	express strong disapproval of	54
8681919068	condescending	treating people as inferior	55
8682270586	connotation	moods or feeling surrounding a word	56
8682272110	consensus	general agreement	57
8682274485	contemporary	current or modern	58
8682275373	contemptuous	feeling hatred	59
8682277908	context	circumstances of a situation	60
8682286178	conviction	a feeling of strong belief	61
8682287805	cordial	friendly	62
8682289647	coup	a brilliantly executed plan	63
8682291551	cryptic	difficult to comprehend	64
8682292785	declarative sentence	basic statement of assertion	65
8682296754	decorous	marked by good taste	66
8682298549	deductive	form of logical argumentation by accepting the claims as true that you can deduce the correct conclusion from the accepted premises	67
8682304753	definition	formal statement of the meaning of a word or phrase	68
8682317252	denotation	literal meaning of a word	69
8682318363	dependent clause	a noun and verb that cannot stand alone	70
8682320082	derived	adapted from a source	71
8682321902	description	using senses to portray a person, place, or thing	72
8682323952	dialect	a regional speech pattern	73
8682325673	dictatorial	oppressively overbearing	74
8682328481	diction	the specific use of words	75
8682332543	discourse	verbal expression or exchange	76
8682336256	discredit	to cause to be doubted	77
8682337239	disdain	to look down on	78
8682338290	disingenuous	not straightforward	79
8682339266	disparity	inequality in age, rank, or degree	80
8682342052	dogged	stubbornly perservering	81
8682343293	dubious	doubtful	82
8682346454	eclectic	made up of a variety of sources or styles	83
8682348606	egregious	conspicuously bad or offensive	84
8682350464	ellipsis	three dots that indicate words have been left out of a quote	85
8682354218	eloquence	speak vividly or persuasively	86
8682356548	elusive	difficult to capture	87
8682358728	embellish	to decorate	88
8682359638	emigrate	to leave a country or religion	89
8682360555	emotional words	demonstrate a writer's intense feelings or emotions	90
8682363012	emphasize	to give special attention to something	91
8682364633	endure	to put up with	92
8682365735	enlightening	informative	93
8682366967	ethos	argumentation identified as an appeal to credibility (ethics)	94
8682372461	euphemism	to use a safer or nicer word for something others find inappropriate or unappealing	95
8682375206	excerpt	a selected part of a passage	96
8682377180	exlamatory sentence	a sentence that conveys excitement or force	97
8682380160	exemplary	commendable	98
8682381293	exemplification	showing by example	99
8682382249	fabricated	concocted to deceive	100
8682390722	facetious	playfully humorous	101
8682390723	facile	easy	102
8682390737	fallacy	a failure of logical reasoning	103
8682392069	false analogy	argument using an inappropriate metaphor	104
8682393259	fastidious	possessing careful attention to detail	105
8689532517	figurative language	compares one thing to to another in a way that is not logical but still makes sense	106
8689539566	flagrant	extrememly or deliberately shocking	107
8689543157	florid	describing flowery speech	108
8689545937	fluid	easily flowing	109
8689549398	frank	straightforward	110
8689555293	futile	pointless	111
8689556930	genre	a category	112
8689560049	gratuitous	given freely	113
8689564200	haughty	arrogant	114
8689564202	heinous	hatefully evil	115
8689566849	hierarchy	a group organized by rank	116
8689569039	humor	a specific tone or attitude used to attempt to be comedic or amusing	117
8689575966	hyperbole	an exaggeration	118
8689578593	hypocrisy	pretending to be something one is not	119
8689581125	hypothetical	existing only as an assumption or speculation	120
8689584025	idealize	to consider perfect	121
8689584028	imagery	one of the five sense used to evoke feelings	122
8689597213	impartial	not in favor of one side or the other	123
8689600168	impede	to slow the progress	124
8689605619	imperative sentence	a command	125
8689605622	imperious	arrogantly domineering	126
8689609065	implication	the act of suggesting or hinting	127
8689611845	impression	a feeling or understanding resulting from an experience	128
8689614608	inconsequential	unimportant	129
8689619572	incumbent	imposed as a duty	130
8689619575	independent cluase	a noun and verb that can stand alone	131
8689623587	indifferent	not caring one eay or the other	132
8689626001	indolent	lazy	133
8689626002	inductive	logical argumentation that requires the use of examples	134
8689632050	inevitable	certain to happen	135
8689635576	infinitive	"to" + a verb	136
8689639130	inherent	built-in	137
8689641415	innate	possessed from birth	138
8689643665	innovative	introducing something new	139
8689649036	insipid	unchallenging	140
8689651646	insolent	insulting in manner or speech	141
8689717607	integrity	trustworthiness	142
8689721588	interrogative sentence	a question	143
8689724946	intrepid	fearless	144
8689729629	intuition	the power of knowing things without thinking	145
8689733726	irony	use of words to express something other than and often the opposite of the literal meaning	146
8689757916	jargon	a patter of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people	147
8689762936	lament	to express grief	148
8689765944	listless	lacking energy	149
8689765946	logos	an appeal to reason (logic)	150
8689804698	lucis	easily understood	151
8689804740	malice	spite	152
8689806621	malleable	easily shaped or formed	153
8689809732	maverick	one who is independent and resists adherence to a group	154
8689812748	mediocrity	state or qualiity of being average	155
8689815031	medieval	referring to Middle Ages	156
8689816789	medley	an assortment or mixture	157
8689820935	malancholy	sadness	158
8689820936	metaphor	something is compared to another thing without like or as	159
8689825625	meticulous	extremely careful or precise	160
8689831773	misconception	an incorrect understanding	161
8689833515	modest	quiet or humble in manner	162
8689874945	mundane	ordinary	163
8689876776	mural	a large painting directly on a wall	164
8689884013	naive	lacking sophistication	165
8689886358	narration	a specific way of telling a story	166
8689904135	narrative	a story	167
8689907413	nocturnal	of or occurring in hte night	168
8689909723	non sequitur	"does not follow" logically irrelevant	169
8689946263	notorious	infamous	170
8689948190	novel	strikingly new or unsual	171
8689948191	novice	a beginner	172
8689971840	object	a noun toward which thought, feeling, or action is directed	173
8689974260	objectivity	treating facts without influence from perssonal feelings or prejudice	174
8689978465	obscure	relatively unknown	175
8689981650	obsolete	no longer in use	176
8689985515	onstinate	stubbornly adhering to an opinon	177
8689987862	ominous	menacing	178
8689990710	omnipotent	all-powerful	179
8689993374	onomatopeoeia	a sound imitating the thing or action associated with it	180
8690002815	ornate	elaborately decorated	181
8690006952	oxymoron	two words that create opposition	182
8690014620	paradigm	an example or model	183
8690016852	paradox	a statement that seems senseless or self-contradictory but is true	184
8690043410	parallelism	a grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used	185
8690068318	parallel syntax	a pattern of speech or language that creates sa rhythm of repetition often combined with some other language of repetition	186
8690076366	parentheticals	phrases, sentences, and words inside of parentheses	187
8690084629	parody	an artistic work that imitates the style or another word for comedic effect	188
8690088879	participle	a verbal action used as an adjective (most often ends in -ing or -ed)	189
8690095282	passive voice	opposite of active voice; in this voice, something happens to someone	190
8690113126	pathos	an appeal based on emotion (empathy/sympathy)	191