AP Language and Composition Lesson 3 Definitions Flashcards

6158564115	difficult to understand, recondite, concealed	abstruse	0
6158564116	friendly, courteous, amiable	affable	1
6158564117	excessive boldness, rashness, daring	audacity	2
6158564118	extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant	contrite	3
6158564119	believing on slight evidence, gullible	credulous	4
6158564120	moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act	depravity	5
6158564121	to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disapproval	deprecate	6
6158564122	instructive, designed to teach	didactic	7
6158564123	inactive, sleeping	dormant	8
6158564124	mysterious, inexplicable	enigmatic	9
6158564125	scholarly	erudite	10
6158564126	foreign, unfamiliar	exotic	11
6158564127	to mix or join (usually by melting)	fuse	12
6158564128	unchanging	immutable	13
6158564129	incapable of being reformed or improved	incorrigible	14
6158564130	to detest	loathe	15
6158564131	to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe	mitigate	16
6158564132	to cause to not be in effect, to negate	nullify	17
6158564133	oposed to war or use of force	pacifistic	18
6158564134	making an extravagant outward show, self-important	pretentious	19
6158564135	introductory remarks in a speech, play or literary work, introductory action	prologue	20
6158564136	to withdraw or to repudiate a statement or belief, revoke	recant	21
6158564137	overly submissive	servile	22
6158564138	fear, trembling, agitation	trepidation	23
6158564139	to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against	villify	24
6158596003	One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed; receiving end	audience	25
6158602903	A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge;	authority	26
6158610032	Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue; Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair	bias	27
6158616247	Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source;	cite	28
6158623937	An assertion, usually supported by evidence;	claim	29
6158633350	A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text	close reading	30
6158643912	An informal or conversational use of language; An informal expression that is more often used in casual conversation than in formal speech or writing. "Latinas are in oppressive structures. We can fool ourselves, but we'd still be getting ~dumped on.~"	colloquialism	31
6158653642	Shared beliefs, values, or positions	common ground	32
6158659260	A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	complex sentence	33
6158662918	A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding	concession	34