AP Language Vocabulary Semester 2 Flashcards

9374074430	gauche	socially awkward or clumsy	0
9374074431	coy	bashful or shy to attract attention (flirting)	1
9374074432	covert	secret, hidden	2
9374074433	crone	hag, withered old woman	3
9374074434	placid	calm, peaceful	4
9374074435	crux	crucial point	5
9374074436	schism	a split or division	6
9374074437	dauntless	brave	7
9374074438	nepotism	favoritism to relatives	8
9374074439	facade	a front	9
9432446044	chastise	to punish or scold	10
9432446045	brusque	blunt, abrupt	11
9432446046	callous	unfeeling, hardened	12
9432446047	callus	thickened part of skin	13
9432446048	dank	damp (dark place)	14
9432446049	feasible	practical	15
9432446050	burly	stout, husky	16
9432446051	attenuate	to make thin or weaken (emotionally)	17
9432446052	poignant	painfully touching or piercing (emotionally)	18
9432446053	throes	anguish, pangs	19
9575381703	buoyant	cheerful	20
9575381704	chagrin	embarrassment, disappointment	21
9575382921	adulation	excessive praise, flattery	22
9575383904	tribulation	suffering, distress	23
9575384599	compunction	regret, remorse	24
9575387244	antipathy	a strong dislike	25
9575388037	a capella	without musical accompaniment	26
9575389228	acme	the highest point	27
9575389935	archaic	old-fashioned, no longer used	28
9575390532	haggard	gaunt, careworn	29
9575391530	nostalgia	yearning for the past; homesickness	30
9575392288	aloof	withdrawn	31
9575392289	apiary	place where bees are kept	32
9575392848	vain	worthless, to no avail or conceited	33
9575394481	diffident	lacking self-confidence, shy	34
9575395106	paltry	practically worthless, piddling, petty	35
9575396133	malleable	capable of being shaped by hammering (a metal), adaptable	36
9575398226	specious	apparently reasonable but not really so, deceptively attractive	37
9575400966	fallacious	erroneous, misleading	38
9575401581	fallible	liable to be mistaken	39
9575402577	choleric	easily angered, irritable	40
9575404009	indubitable	certain, indisputable	41
9575404726	carrion	decaying flesh of a carcass	42
9575406262	flotsam	wreckage of a ship or cargo found floating on sea	43
9575407762	jetsam	goods deliberately cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress	44
9575409203	teetotaler	a person who totally abstains from liquor	45
9575410418	callow	young and inexperienced	46
9575411087	dross	waste, refuse	47
9575411088	delectable	very pleasing	48
9575411814	phlegmatic	calm, collected (cool), hard to rouse to action, apathetic	49
9722072929	disconsolate	cheerless, inconsolable	50
9722077443	bliss	perfect happiness	51
9722079852	lackey	slavish follower	52
9722091110	sanguine	cheerful, optimistic, hopeful	53
9722095489	melancholy	dejected, depressed	54
9722098723	gala	characterized by festivity	55
9722101298	antithesis	the direct opposite	56
9722104294	malodorous	stinking, ill-smelling	57
9722107385	harlequin	buffoon, clown	58
9722107428	malevolent	evil	59
9832431657	insouciant	blithely indifferent or unconcerned; carefree; happy-go-lucky	60
9832439218	declivity	downward slope	61
9832440922	maudlin	weakly sentimental and tearful (overdone)	62
9832443635	svelte	slender, lithe	63
9832446014	obsequious	slavishly attentive, fawning	64
9832450043	ornithology	study of birds	65
9832452351	benign	kindly, harmless	66
9832452352	salubrious	healthful	67
9832454843	plaudit	applause, enthusiastic praise (plaudits)	68
9832458417	inveterate	firmly established by age, deep-rooted, habitual	69