AP English Language - Hit Parade Flashcards

5960313485	assertion	a declaration or statement	0
5960313486	clarity	clearness in thought or expression	1
5960313487	cogent	convincing; reasonable	2
5960313488	coherent	logically connected	3
5960313489	cohesive	condition of sticking together	4
5960313490	didactic	intended to instruct	5
5960313491	discourse	verbal expression or exchange; conversation	6
5960313492	eloquence	the ability to speak vividly or persuasively	7
5960313493	emphasize	to give special attention to something, to stress	8
5960313494	fluid	easily flowing	9
5960313495	implication	the act of suggesting or hinting	10
5960313496	lucid	easily understood; clear	11
5960313497	rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	12
5960313498	arbiter	a judge who decides a disputed issue	13
5960313499	biased	prejudiced	14
5960313500	exculpate	to free from guilt or blame	15
5960313501	impartial	not in favor of one side or the other, unbiased	16
5960313502	incontrovertible	not able to be denied or disputed	17
5960313503	integrity	trustworthiness; completeness	18
5960313504	objectivity	treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices	19
5960313505	penitent	expressing remorse for one's misdeeds	20
5960313506	plausible	seemingly valid or acceptable; credible	21
5960313507	substantiated	supported with proof or evidence; verified	22
5960313508	vindicated	freed from blame	23
5960313509	condescending	treating people as weak or inferior	24
5960313510	contemptuous	feeling hatred; scornful	25
5960313511	despotic	exercising absolute power; tyrannical	26
5960313512	dictatorial	domineering; oppressively overbearing	27
5960313513	disdain	contempt, scorn	28
5960313515	haughty	arrogant; vainly proud	29
5960313516	imperious	arrogantly domineering or overbearing	30
5960313517	patronizing	treating in a condescending manner	31
5960313518	convoluted	intricate; complex	32
5960313519	cryptic	difficult to comprehend	33
5960313520	futile	having no useful purpose; pointless	34
5960313521	impede	to slow the progress of	35
5960313522	obscure	relatively unknown	36
5960313524	quandary	a state of uncertainty or perplexity	37
5960313525	indolent	lazy	38
5960313526	insipid	uninteresting; unchallenging	39
5960313527	listless	lacking energy	40
5960313528	torpor	laziness; inactivity; dullness	41
5960313529	alienated	removed or disassociated from (friends, family, or homeland)	42
5960313530	alliance	a union of two or more groups	43
5960313531	disparity	inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference	44
5960313532	servile	submissive; like a servant	45
5960313533	suppressed	subdued; kept from being circulated	46
5960313534	embellish	to make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate	47
5960313535	florid	describing flowery or elaborate speech	48
5960313536	opulent	exhibiting a display of great wealth	49
5960313537	ornate	elaborately decorated	50
5960313538	ostentatious	describing a showy or pretentious display	51
5960313539	poignant	profoundly moving; touching	52
5960313540	ebullience	intense enthusiasm	53
5960313541	effusive	emotionally unrestrained; gushy	54
5960313542	egregious	conspicuously bad or offensive	55
5960313543	flagrant	extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable	56
5960313544	frenetic	wildly excited or active	57
5960313545	gratuitous	given freely; unearned; unwarranted	58
5960313546	superfluous	extra; unnecessary	59
5960313547	alleviate	to ease a pain or burden	60
5960313548	asylum	a place of retreat or security	61
5960313549	auspicious	favorable; promising	62
5960313550	benevolent	well-meaning; generous	63
5960313551	benign	kind and gentle	64
5960313552	mollify	to calm or soothe	65
5960313553	reclamation	the act of making something useful again	66
5960313554	sanction	to give official authorization or approval	67
5960313555	dubious	doubtful; of unlikely authenticity	68
5960313556	fabricated	made; concocted to deceive	69
5960313557	hypocrisy	the practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity	70
5960313558	slander	false charges and malicious oral statements about someone	71
5960313559	spurious	not genuine	72
5960313560	astute	shrewd; clever	73
5960313561	clandestine	secretive	74
5960313562	coup	a brilliantly executed plan	75
5960313563	disingenuous	not straightforward; crafty	76
5960313564	ruse	a crafty trick	77
5960313565	stratagem	a clever trick used to deceive or outwit	78
5960313566	surreptitiously	done by secretive means	79
5960313567	wary	on guard	80
5960313568	wily	cunning	81
5960313569	ambiguous	open to more than one interpretation	82
5960313570	ambivalent	simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain	83
5960313571	apathetic	feeling or showing little emotion	84
5960313572	arbitrary	determined by impulse rather than reason	85
5960313573	capricious	impulsive and unpredictable	86
5960313574	equivocate	to avoid making a definite statement	87
5960313575	indifferent	not caring one way or the other	88
5960313576	spontaneous	unplanned; naturally occurring	89
5960313577	whimsical	subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable	90
5960313578	inconsequential	unimportant	91
5960313579	superficial	concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow	92
5960313580	tenuous	having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure, weak	93
5960313581	trivial	of little importance or significance	94
5960313582	assiduous	hard-working	95
5960313583	compelling	forceful; urgently demanding attention	96
5960313584	diligent	marked by painstaking effort; hard-working	97
5960313585	dogged	stubbornly persevering	98
5960313586	endure	to put up with; to survive a hardship	99
5960313587	intrepid	courageous; fearless	100
5960313588	maverick	one who is independent and resists adherence to a group	101
5960313589	obdurate	stubborn; inflexible	102
5960313590	obstinate	stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action	103
5960313591	proliferate	to grow or increase rapidly	104
5960313592	tenacity	persistence	105
5960313593	vitality	energy; power to survive	106
5960313594	assimilation	to absorb; to make similar	107
5960313595	consensus	general agreement	108
5960313596	context	circumstances of a situation; environment	109
5960313597	derived	copied or adapted from a source	110
5960313598	incumbent	imposed as a duty; obligatory	111
5960313599	inevitable	certain to happen, unavoidable	112
5960313600	malleable	easily shaped or formed; easily influenced	113
5960313601	subdue	to restrain; to hold back	114
5960313602	acquired	developed or learned; not naturally occurring	115
5960313603	conception	the ability to form or understand an idea	116
5960313604	conviction	a fixed or strong belief	117
5960313605	dogmatic	stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs	118
5960313606	enlightening	informative; contributing to one's awareness	119
5960313607	impression	a feeling or understanding resulting from an experience	120
5960313608	intuition	the power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight	121
5960313609	misconception	an incorrect understanding or interpretation	122
5960313610	perception	awareness; insight	123
5960313611	perspective	point of view	124
5960313612	profound	having great depth or seriousness	125
5960313613	inherent	inborn; built-in	126
5960313614	innate	possessed from birth; inborn	127
5960313615	inveterate	long established; deep-rooted; habitual	128
5960313616	omnipotent	all-powerful	129
5960313617	proximity	closeness	130
5960313618	elusive	difficult to capture, as in something actually fleeting	131
5960313619	emigrate	to leave one country or region and settle in another	132
5960313620	transient	passing away with time; passing from one place to another	133
5960313621	transitory	short-lived or temporary	134
5960313622	affable	easy-going; friendly	135
5960313623	amenable	responsive; agreeable	136
5960313624	camaraderie	good will between friends	137
5960313625	cordial	friendly; sincere	138
5960313626	facetious	playfully humorous	139
5960313627	impinge	hinder; interfere with	140
5960313628	lament	express grief for; mourn	141
5960313629	melancholy	sadness; depression	142
5960313630	sanction	an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country	143
5960313631	truncated	shortened; cut off	144
5960313632	aesthetic	having to do with the appreciation of beauty	145
5960313633	anthology	a collection of literary pieces	146
5960313634	contemporary	current, modern; from the same time	147
5960313635	dilettante	one with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge	148
5960313636	eclectic	made up of a variety of sources or styles	149
5960313637	excerpt	a selected part of a passage or scene	150
5960313638	genre	describing a category or artistic endeavor	151
5960313639	medley	an assortment or a mixture, especially of musical pieces	152
5960313640	mural	a large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface	153
5960313641	narrative	characterized by the telling of a story	154
5960313643	parody	an artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect	155
5960313644	realism	artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy	156
5960313645	virtuoso	a tremendously skilled artist	157
5960313646	decorous	proper; marked by good taste	158
5960313647	equanimity	the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure	159
5960313648	modest	quiet or humble in manner or appearance	160
5960313649	propriety	appropriateness of behavior	161
5960313650	prudent	exercising good judgment or common sense	162
5960313651	serene	calm	163
5960313652	staid	unemotional; serious	164
5960313653	stoic	indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive	165
5960313654	condemn	to express strong disapproval of; denounce	166
5960313655	discredit	to cause to be doubted	167
5960313656	disparage	to speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle	168
5960313657	pejorative	describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone	169
5960313658	plagiarism	the act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own	170
5960313659	vilify	to make vicious statements about	171
5960313660	brusque	rudely abrupt	172
5960313661	caustic	bitingly sarcastic or witty	173
5960313662	fractious	quarrelsome; unruly	174
5960313663	incorrigible	unable to be reformed	175
5960313664	ingrate	an ungrateful person	176
5960313665	insolent	insulting in manner or speech	177
5960313666	notorious	known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous	178
5960313667	pugnacious	combative; belligerent	179
5960313668	reprehensible	worthy of blame	180
5960313669	brittle	easily broken when subjected to pressure	181
5960313670	deleterious	having a harmful effect; injurious	182
5960313671	enmity	mutual hatred or ill-will	183
5960313672	heinous	hatefully evil; abominable	184
5960313673	malfeasance	wrongdoing, misconduct	185
5960313674	malice	extreme ill-will or spite	186
5960313675	putrid	rotten	187
5960313676	rancorous	hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will	188
5960313677	toxic	poisonous	189
5960313678	archaic	characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned	190
5960313679	hackneyed	worn out through overuse; trite	191
5960313680	medieval	referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned	192
5960313681	obsolete	no longer in use; old-fashioned	193
5960313682	austere	without decoration; strict	194
5960313683	mediocrity	the state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality	195
5960313684	mundane	commonplace; ordinary	196
5960313685	ponderous	extremely dull	197
5960313686	prosaic	unimaginative; dull	198
5960313687	sedentary	not migratory; settled	199
5960313688	apprehension	anxiety or fear about the future	200
5960313689	harbinger	something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner	201
5960313690	ominous	menacing; threatening	202
5960313691	premonition	a feeling about the future	203
5960313692	timorous	timid; fearful about the future	204
5960313693	trepidation	uncertainty; apprehension	205
5960313694	innovative	introducing something new	206
5960313695	naive	lacking sophistication	207
5960313696	nascent	coming into existence; emerging	208
5960313697	novel	strikingly new or unusual	209
5960313698	novice	a beginner	210
5960313699	candor	sincerity; openness	211
5960313700	frank	open and sincere in expression; straightforward	212
5960313701	arid	describing a dry, rainless climate	213
5960313702	conflagration	a widespread fire	214
5960313703	nocturnal	of or occurring in the night	215
5960313704	sonorous	producing a deep or full sound	216
5960313705	ample	describing a large amount of something	217
5960313706	comprehensive	large in scope or content	218
5960313707	copious	plentiful; having a large quantity	219
5960313708	permeated	spread or flowing throughout	220
5960313709	pervasive	dispersed throughout	221
5960313710	prodigious	enormous	222
5960313711	replete	abundantly supplied: filled to capacity	223
5960313712	exemplary	commendable; worthy of imitation	224
5960313713	idealize	to consider perfect	225
5960313714	laudatory	giving praise	226
5960313715	paramount	of chief concern or importance	227
5960313716	venerated	highly respected	228
5960313717	catalog	to make an itemized list of	229
5960313718	facile	done or achieved with little effort; easy	230
5960313719	fastidious	possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please	231
5960313720	hierarchy	a group organized by rank	232
5960313721	meticulous	extremely careful and precise	233
5960313722	pragmatic	practical	234
5960313723	solvent	able to pay one's debts	235
5960313724	abstract	not applied to actual objects	236
5960313725	anachronism	something out of place in time or sequence	237
5960313726	anthropomorphism	the attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature	238
5960313727	apology	defense of an idea	239
5960313728	apparatus	equipment; a group of machines	240
5960313729	apposition	a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation	241
5960313730	archetype	a perfect example; an original pattern or model	242
5960313731	chiasmus	an inversion in the second of two parallel phrases	243
5960313732	gesticulating	making gestures while speaking	244
5960313733	hypothetical	existing only as an assumption or speculation	245
5960313734	lexicon	a word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary	246
5960313735	metonymy	a type of figurative language in which one term is substituted for another term with which it is closely associated	247
5960313736	oxymoron	an apparent contradiction of terms	248
5960313737	panegyric	statement of high praise	249
5960313738	paradigm	an example or model	250
5960313739	parallelism	a grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used	251
5960313740	period	long, complex, grammatically correct sentence	252
5960313741	pernicious	causing great harm	253
5960313742	phenomenon	an unusual, observable event	254
5960313743	propitious	presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious	255
5960313744	rational	logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling	256
5960313745	sardonic	disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh, bitter, or caustic	257
5960313746	syllogism	a form of deductive reasoning; a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion	258
5960313747	synecdoche	a form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole	259
5960313748	theoretical	lacking application or practical application	260