AP Language Final Flashcards

5741562102	oblique	not clear or direct	0
5741564455	conundrum	a confusing and difficult problem or question	1
5741564456	ornery	bad tempered or combative	2
5741571630	philanthropy	the desire to promote the welfare of others	3
5741580209	ruminate	to think deeply about something	4
5741582093	heliophilia	an addiction to the sun	5
5741586476	selcouth	strange or uncommon	6
5741588468	tacit	understood without being openly expressed or implied	7
5741588469	balter	to dance or walk in a clumsy manner	8
5741588470	jocular	fond of or characterized by joking	9
5741593540	palliative	relieving pain	10
5741593568	vicissitude	a change or variation occurring in the course of something	11
5741598598	bivouac	a temporary camp without tents or covers	12
5741601905	hegemony	influence or control over another country	13
5741601906	lament	to express sorrow or regret	14
5741604097	littoral	growing on or near a shore especially of the sea	15
5741608059	pernicious	causing harm or ruin	16
5741608060	placate	to cause someone to feel less angry about something	17
5741608061	socratic	relating to socrates or his philosophy	18
5741610605	miscellany	a mixture or collection of various things	19
5741610606	abstract	apart from concrete realities or hard to understand	20
5741613470	gratuitous	being without apparent reason or justification	21
5741613471	promulgate	to make known by open declaration	22
5741616890	galvanize	to startle into sudden activity or to stimulate	23
5741616891	sanction	authoritative permission or approval	24
5741619780	effervescence	to give off bubbles of gas	25
5741624466	agitprop	propaganda	26
5741624467	effulgence	a brilliant radiance	27
5741629003	mellifluous	sweetly or smoothly flowing	28
5741642607	pro bono	without charge to the client	29
5741642608	superfluous	unnecessary or being more than enough	30
5741781444	trumpery	something without use or value	31
5741648274	eucatastrophe	a sudden and favorable resolution of events in a story	32
5741652613	meliorism	the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid in its betterment	33
5741654482	elysian	heaven-like place or paradise	34
5741654483	susurrant	softly murmuring	35
5741656647	peripeteia	a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances	36
5741656648	defenestrate	to throw out of a window	37
5741660520	gesticulate	to use gestures especially instead of speaking	38
5741660521	anathema	you've been cursed with something	39
5741663770	antithetical	directly opposed or contrasted	40
5741663771	vitriol	abusive or venomous language used to express blame	41
5741666779	tensile	capable of being drawn out or stretched	42
5741669605	misanthropic	characterized by a hatred for humankind or to be anti-social	43
5741669606	cogent	convincing or believable by clear presentation	44
5741671910	eminent	high in rank	45
5741675241	paradigm	an example or pattern of something	46
5741675242	ad hominem	switching the argument from the issue to the character of the other speaker	47
5741681647	appeal to false authority	when someone with no expertise on an issue is cited as an authority	48
5741681648	argument	a process of reasoned inquiry	49
5741683821	backing	additional justification or evidence	50
5741686917	bandwagon appeal (ad populum)	appeals to the growing popularity of an idea	51
5741686918	begging the question	a claim that is based on evidence or support that is in doubt	52
5741704074	circular reasoning	the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence	53
5741704075	claim	states the argument's main idea or position	54
5741704076	claim of fact	asserts that something is true or not true	55
5741707513	claim of policy	proposes change	56
5741709897	claim of value	argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong	57
5741713702	the classical oration	five part argument structure	58
5741713703	conclusion	brings the essay to a close	59
5741716831	confirmation	includes proof needed to make the writer's case	60
5741716832	introduction	introduces the reader to the subject under discussion	61
5741828781	narration	provides factual information and background material	62
5741719826	refutation	addresses the counterargument	63
5741719827	closed thesis	previews the major points the writer intends to make	64
5741722941	deduction	a logical process where one reaches a conclusion	65
5741725452	false dilemma	the speaker presents a two extreme options as the only possible choices	66
5741725453	faulty analogy	compares two things that are not comparable	67
5741728657	first hand evidence	evidence based on something the writer knows	68
5741735977	hasty generalization	when a faulty conclusion is reached	69
5741735978	induction	using specific cases in order to draw a conclusion	70
5741739193	logical fallacy	potential weaknesses in an argument	71
5741739194	open thesis	a thesis that does not list all the points	72
5741743048	post hoc ergo propter hoc	when the correlation does not imply causation	73
5741743049	qualifier	shows how sure the writer thinks he or she is	74
5741747883	quantitative evidence	includes things that can be measured	75
5741861743	rebuttal	gives voice to possible objections	76
5741861757	reservation	explains the terms and conditions necessitated by the qualifier	77
5741865509	rogerian argument	based on assumption	78
5741867492	second hand evidence	evidence that includes factual and historical information	79
5741867493	straw man	when a speaker chooses a poor or oversimplified example	80
5741870016	syllogism	a logical structure that uses the major and minor premise	81
5741873675	toulmin model	an approach to analyzing and constructing arguments	82
5741873676	warrant	expresses the assumption shared by the speaker and the audience	83
5741873677	syntax	the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences	84
5741876376	tone	a speaker's attitude	85
5741876377	diction	a speaker's choice of words	86
5741880718	choice of details	items or parts that make up a larger picture or story	87
5741880719	imagery	a description that appeals to the senses	88
5741884919	figurative language	uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation	89
5741934919	style	the structure of sentences	90