AP Language and Composition #3 Flashcards

6489299141	Stratagem	trick designed to deceive an enemy; plan, scheme, ruse	0
6489299142	Surreptitiously	done by secretive means	1
6489299143	Wary	careful, cautious, engard	2
6489300657	Obdurate	Stubborn, unyielding. Refusing to change one's opinion.	3
6489300658	Proliferate	Increase or spread rapidly or excessively	4
6489300659	Malleable	easily changed or influenced	5
6489302201	Inveterate	having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change	6
6489302202	Facetious	Playfully humorous	7
6489307826	Truncated	shortened; cut off	8
6489307827	Dilettante	a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge; an amateur	9
6489307828	Virtuoso	a person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit: a celebrated clarinet virtuoso	10
6489307829	Caustic	sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way; bitingly sarcastic or witty	11
6489309089	Fractious	irritable and quarrelsome	12
6489309090	Malfeasance	wrongdoing, especially by a public official	13
6489309091	Hackneyed	lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite, cliche	14
6489312103	Ponderous	slow and clumsy because of great weight; extremely dull and tedious	15
6489312104	Nascent	just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential	16
6489312105	Timorous	showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence; timid, fearful	17
6489312106	Fastidious	very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail; picky, persnickety	18
6489314253	Insolvent	unable to pay debts owed	19