AP Language & Composition: Vocabulary #1 Flashcards
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| 7695234478 | Admonitory (adj) | tending or serving to warn | 0 | |
| 7695234479 | Arduous (adj) | requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult | 1 | |
| 7695234480 | Avaricious (adj) | greedy; covetous | 2 | |
| 7695234481 | Baseness (n) | the state of projecting selfishness, cowardice, low ethical standards | 3 | |
| 7695234482 | Bent (n) | direction taken, as by one's interests; inclination | 4 | |
| 7695234483 | Burgeoning (adj) | growing or developing quickly; flourishing | 5 | |
| 7695234484 | Censure (v) | to criticize or reproach in a harsh or vehement manner | 6 | |
| 7695234485 | Debunk (v) | to expose or excoriate (a claim, assertion, sentiment, etc.) as being pretentious, false, or exaggerated | 7 | |
| 7695234486 | Declamation (n) | exercise in oratory or elocution, as in the recitation of a classic speech | 8 | |
| 7695234487 | Didactic (adj) | intended for instruction; instructive | 9 | |
| 7695234488 | Discomfited (adj) | confused, dejected, disconcerted | 10 | |
| 7695234489 | Effusive (adj) | unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve; pouring out; overflowing | 11 | |
| 7695234490 | Glibness (n) | thoughtlessness, superficiality, insincerity | 12 | |
| 7695234491 | Idiosyncratic (adj) | pertaining to the nature of something peculiar to an individual | 13 | |
| 7695234492 | Incongruous (adj) | out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming | 14 | |
| 7695234493 | Insidious (adj) | intended to entrap or beguile | 15 | |
| 7695234494 | Maudlin (adj) | tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental | 16 | |
| 7695234495 | Misogynistic (adj) | reflecting or exhibiting hatred, dislike, mistrust, or mistreatment of women | 17 | |
| 7695234496 | Pejorative (adj) | having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force | 18 | |
| 7695234497 | Pragmatic (adj) | of or relating to a practical point of view or practical | 19 | |
| 7695234498 | Reticent (adj) | reluctant or restrained | 20 | |
| 7695234499 | Rueful (adj) | feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful | 21 | |
| 7695234500 | Salient (adj) | prominent or conspicuous | 22 | |
| 7695234501 | Subjective (adj) | pertaining to or characteristic of an individual; personal; individual | 23 | |
| 7695234502 | Subsequent (adj) | occurring or coming later or after (often followed by to) | 24 | |
| 7695234503 | Tenebrous (adj) | dark; gloomy; obscure | 25 | |
| 7695234504 | Ubiquitous (adj) | existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent | 26 | |
| 7695234505 | Utilitarian (adj) | having regard to or usefulness rather than beauty, ornamentation, etc. | 27 | |
| 7695234506 | Voluble (adj) | characterized by a continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative | 28 | |
| 7695234507 | Wry (adj) | bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing | 29 |