AP Language Vocab List 1 Flashcards
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| 7433250119 | august (au-gus-t) | p.o.s: adjective d: inspiring reverence and admiration, venerable, grand s: distinguished, majestic - prestigious a: undignified - mundane (mund - of the world), trivial, common ex: We stood up respectfully when the august guest entered the room. | 0 | |
| 7433250120 | contrite (con-tri-te) | p.o.s: adjective d: sense of guilt, desire for atonement, showing great sorrow s: apologetic, remorseful, attritional a: shameless, lack of care ex: After getting into a minor car accident, one driver was contrite and apologized seven times. | 1 | |
| 7433250121 | contrition | p.o.s: noun d: remorse, the state of having guilt s: repentance compunction (feeling of guilt coming from something bad) a: pride, joy ex: His contrition was overwhelming and he had to confess everything to his friend in order to unburden himself of the weight of his sin. | 2 | |
| 7433250122 | curmudgeon (cur-mudge-en) | p.o.s: noun d: a cranky, rude person who is usually old s: grouch, whiner, miser a: optimist ex: The curmudgeon busted his way into the room and, upon hearing bad news, put his fist in the wall. | 3 | |
| 7433250123 | despondent | p.o.s: adjective d: feeling hopeless - lost courage, hope s: discouraged, mourning, forlorn, dejected, desperate. a: cheerful, light-hearted, buoyant (cheerful and optimisitic) ex: The man, feeling despondent, could not think of any solutions, and had given up. | 4 | |
| 7433250124 | ensconce | p.o.s: verb d: to settle in a comfortable or safe place. Shelter, hide s: conceal, settle, position a: uncover, unveil, expose, reveal ex: The acorns were ensconced in the ground, waiting for the squirrel to return. | 5 | |
| 7433250125 | desultory (des-ul-tor-e) | p.o.s: adjective d: disconnected, lacking consistency, jumping from one thing to another s: aimless, chaotic - sporadic, erratic, mercurial (unpredicted change) , capricious, spasmodic. a: organized, orderly, systematic, stable, assiduous, determined, methodical, constant ex: The desultory conversation had four people speaking simultaneously, each one attempting to speak over the other. | 6 | |
| 7433250126 | hegemony (he-je-money) | p.o.s: noun d: leadership influence exercised by one nation over others, political domination s: command, authority, leadership, dominance, sovereignty, supremacy a: subordination ex: Germany in WWII trying to take over world | 7 | |
| 7433250127 | supercilious (super-sill-ious) | p.o.s: adjective d: disdainful or indifferent because of a feeling of superiority; rival, enemy s: condescending, snobby, haughty a: humble, inferior, subordinate, caviler ex: The supercilious man strode around his mansion, head held high as he walked past those whom he believed to be inferior to him. | 8 | |
| 7433250128 | nemesis | p.o.s: noun d: an opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome, just punishment, retribution, and agent of retribution whom you cannot avoid s: rival, enemy, punishment, avenger, antagonist a: friend, associate, colleague, help, support ex: He clashed with his nemesis daily, and it seems as though he'll never best her. | 9 | |
| 7433250129 | putative | p.o.s: adjective d: commonly accepted or supposed, an assumption, not proven yet. Allegedly true s: presumptive, assumed, conjectural, (knowledgable guess), ostensible (appearing to be) a: proven, sure, known, demonstrated ex: the putative cause of the accident was that the driver made a wrong turn, but it was found that the other driver has been drinking. | 10 | |
| 7433250130 | prognosticate | p.o.s: verb d: to forecast or predict from facts, indicate beforehand. Prophecy an event in the future s: foreshadow, forebode, auger, tend, prophecy, adumbrate( foreshadow or symbolize), portend (predict) a: hindsight, retrospect (review of past time), recollection, reminiscent ex: The birds prognosticated the coming storm and burrowed into their nests. | 11 | |
| 7433250131 | puerile | p.o.s: adjective d: relating to a child (puer - latin for boy), youthful, juvenile s: immature, infantile, callow, babyish a: mature, aged, sophisticated ex: The puerile picture portrayed two stick figures. | 12 | |
| 7433250132 | splenetic | p.o.s: adjective d: peevish, spiteful, having to do with the spleen, bad-tempered, whiny s: bitter, cross, irascible, bilious, querulous, choleric peevish a: happy, kind, easy going, complacent, forgiving, amiable, complacent ex: The splenetic man made a rude remark to everyone who tried to speak to him. | 13 | |
| 7433250133 | stultify (stel-tif-i) | p.o.s: verb d: to make useless, futile. Cause to appear or reduce to foolishness. s: stagnate, stifle, trammel, discourage, inhibit a: excite, put something in a good light - foster, encourage, nourish, pique ex: The boy's prank of having the principal fall onto a slip-n-slide stultified him, causing the principal to give him detention. | 14 | |
| 7433250134 | vapid | p.o.s: adjective d: lacking life or sharpness, bland, dull, flavorless - jejune s: boring, stale, uninspiring, innocuous(not harmful or invested) a: vibrant, exciting, lively, zestful ex: The vapid soda was flat and tasted of nothing. | 15 | |
| 7433250135 | wrest | p.o.s: verb d: to pull with a violent twist, to get by effort, difficulty s: wrench, extort, wring a: give, yield, surrender, ex: She wrested the wrench from the baby's fist to make sure that he didn't hurt himself. | 16 | |
| 7433250136 | zeitgeist (zeit-geist) | p.o.s: noun d: the general feeling of a particular time, climate of an era - (cultural feelings of an era) s: spirit, theme, outlook, feature, trait, indication a: --- ex: Her tearful poem captured the zeitgeist of the night, as everyone was sad to leave and say goodbye the following day. | 17 |