AP Literature - Vocabulary Flashcards

7392993642	Abhorrent	Causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred	0
7392996457	Adroit	Skillful in use of hands or body	1
7392998139	Affable	Friendly, good natured, easy to talk to	2
7393000187	Affinity	A natural liking or attraction to something/someone	3
7393005691	Allay	To put (fear, suspicion, worry) to rest	4
7393008573	Altruistic	Showing selfless concern for the well-being of others, unselfish	5
7393013029	Antipathy	Deep feeling of dislike, aversion	6
7393014180	Ardent	Enthusiastic or passionate	7
7393016963	Bane	A cause of great distress or annoyance	8
7393019491	Banter	Playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks	9
7393021042	Brusque	Abrupt in speech or manner	10
7393023221	Bucolic	Relating to the pleasant aspects of countryside and country life	11
7393026960	Chagrin	Distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated	12
7393028554	Clandestine	Kept secret because illicit	13
7393030494	Conflagration	A fire that destroys a lot of land or property	14
7393032829	Craven	Lacking courage, cowardly	15
7393034138	Culpable	Deserving blame	16
7393035482	Deft	Skillful and quick in one's movement	17
7393038277	Deleterious	Causing harm or damage	18
7393039646	Denigrate	Criticize unfairly, disparage	19
7393041645	Diatribe	Bitter verbal attack against someone or something	20
7393043287	Diffident	Modest or shy because of lack of self confidence	21
7393045400	Dilettante	Person who cultivates an area of interest without real commitment or knowledge	22
7393048542	Dolt	A stupid person	23
7393049707	Ephemeral	Lasting for a very short time	24
7393050938	Evanescent	Soon passing or fading out of memory or existence	25
7393053035	Facetious	Treating issues with inappropriate humor, flippant	26
7393054771	Felicity	Intense happiness	27
7393055882	Harangue	A lengthy and aggressive speech	28
7393126864	Haughty	Arrogantly superior and disdainful	29
7393057246	Hindrance	Something that provides delay or obstruction to something/someone	30
7393059366	Inexorable	Impossible to stop or prevent	31
7393061051	Indigent	Poor, needy	32
7393062581	Innate	Inborn, natural	33
7393064122	Insidious	Proceeding in a gradual way, but with harmful effects	34
7393066356	Intrinsic	Belonging naturally, essential	35
7393068104	Juxtaposition	The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect	36
7393071292	Languid	Displaying a disinclination for physical effort, slow and relaxed	37
7393075188	Licentious	Unprincipled in sexual matters	38
7393076221	Loquacious	Talkative, tending to talk	39
7393081501	Misanthropy	A dislike of humankind	40
7393083153	Narcissistic	Excessive or erotic interest in oneself or one's physical appearance	41
7393084842	Obstreperous	Noisy and difficult to control	42
7393087300	Penchant	A strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something	43
7393089214	Perfunctory	Carried out with minimum effort or reflection (an action or gesture)	44
7393091504	Peripatetic	Traveling from place to place for relatively short periods	45
7393093222	Petulant	Sulky or bad tempered	46
7393094595	Portentous	Done in an overly solemn matter to impress	47
7393097662	Pragmatic	Dealing with things in a practical way as opposed to a theoretical approach	48
7393099387	Repudiate	Refuse to be accepted or associated with	49
7393101064	Rue	Bitterly regret	50
7393102083	Salacious	Lustful, lecherous, treating sexual matters in an indecent way	51
7393106706	Supercilious	Behaving as if one thinks one is superior to others	52
7393109553	Surreptitious	Kept secret since it wouldn't be approved of	53
7393110626	Trepidation	A feeling of fear or agitation that something might happen	54
7393112214	Ubiquitous	Found everywhere	55
7393114913	Venerate	Regard with respect, revere	56
7393117054	Vindictive	Showing an unreasoning desire for revenge	57
7393118775	Virulent	Extremely harmful or severe in its effects	58
7393119946	Volition	The faculty or power of using one's will	59