AP English "AB" vocab Flashcards

7325160269	archetype	original model that's widely imitated	0
7325163848	apathy	insensibility to emotion; lack of effort	1
7325165765	antithesis	exact opposite	2
7325167365	ado	unnecessary activity	3
7325170137	absolve	to free from sin or blame	4
7325175022	acquiesce	to comply or submit	5
7325195907	bureaucracy	administration characterized by the excessive procedure and routine	6
7325199794	bedlam	scene of great uproar;asylum	7
7325201996	barring	excluding by exception	8
7325208969	burgeon	to sprout; to grow; to blossom and flourish	9
7325211758	bilious	having a nasty temper	10
7325215491	bleak	without hope	11
7325285107	acute	very refined or sharp	12
7325294473	acrimonious	bitter	13
7325296565	admonish	to warn of fault; usually in a mean tone	14
7325300278	brevity	shortness of duration	15
7325305320	brandish	to wave or shake as a weapon	16
7325309141	bolster	to support	17
7325311567	accost	to confront boldly	18
7325313848	austere	severely simple; unadorned	19
7325323467	baleful	malignant; threatening	20
7325328951	beleaguer	to surround with troubles	21
7325332656	ascetic	a person who deliberately chooses to live a plain and simple life	22
7325344533	aggrandize	to exaggerate, put on a false front, and make something look greater than it really is	23
7325363647	bequeath	to hand down	24
7325363648	bauble	a showy, usually cheap, ornament; knickknack	25
7325375665	aloof	distant; disinterested	26
7325380598	ad hominem	appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason	27
7325393285	blatant	completely obvious	28
7325395755	belittle	to attack or make lower in significance	29
7325399513	belligerent	warlike; eager to fight	30
7325399514	bemoan	to complain	31
7325401307	balk	to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified	32
7325402918	auspicious	favoring success	33
7325402919	ambiguous	having an unclear or double meaning	34
7325419091	anomaly	something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified	35
7325419092	ambsace	something worthless or unlucky	36
7325421925	beseech	to beg	37
7325424338	banal	lacking originality or freshness	38
7325426261	adhere	to stick to; to fasten	39
7325428370	acumen	keen insight	40
7325428371	bravado	an aggressive display of boldness	41
7325429952	boorish	rude	42
7325431704	aesthetic	visual beauty	43
7325435835	ambivalence	the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes	44
7325457903	benevolent	kind	45
7325460544	brusque	somewhat rough in manner or speech	46
7325465116	blasphemy	the act of insulting religion or anything held dearly to a person	47
7325470024	assuage	to relieve or ease	48
7325473346	allude	to refer by suggestion	49