Unit 9 AP Literature Flashcards
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| 9166751392 | beatitude | (n.) a state of perfect happiness or blessedness; a blessing | 0 | |
| 9166751393 | Béte noire | (n.) someone or something that one especially dislikes, dreads, or avoids | 1 | |
| 9166751394 | Fetid | (adj.) having an unpleasant or offensive odor | 2 | |
| 9166751395 | Incubus | (n.) a demon or evil spirit supposed to haunt human beings in their bedrooms at night; anything that oppressed or weighs upon one, like a nightmare | 3 | |
| 9166751396 | Heyday | (n.) the period of greatest power, vigor, success, or influence; the price years | 4 | |
| 9166751397 | Fervid | (adj.) burning with enthusiasm or zeal; extremely heated | 5 | |
| 9166751398 | Dank | (adj.) unpleasantly damp or wet | 6 | |
| 9166751399 | Ecumenical | (adj.) worldwide or universal in influence or application | 7 | |
| 9166751400 | Gargantuan | (adj.) of immense size, volume, or capacity; enormous, prodigious | 8 | |
| 9166751401 | Bode | (v.) to be an omen of; to indicate by signs | 9 | |
| 9166751402 | Truckle | (v.) to yield or submit tamely or submissively | 10 | |
| 9166751403 | Tautology | (n.) needless repetition of an idea by using different but equivalent words; a redundancy | 11 | |
| 9166751404 | Infrastructure | (n.) a basic foundation or framework; a system of public works; the resources and facilities requires for an activity; permanent military installations | 12 | |
| 9166751405 | Prolix | (adj.) long-winded and wordy; tending to speak or write in such a way | 13 | |
| 9166751406 | lagniappe | (n.) an extra or unexpected gift or gratuity | 14 | |
| 9166751407 | Sycophant | (n.) someone who attempts to win favors or advance him or herself by flattery or servile behavior; a slanderer, defamer | 15 | |
| 9166751408 | Protégé | (n.) someone whose welfare, training, or career is under the patronage of an influential person; someone under the jurisdiction of a foreign country or government | 16 | |
| 9166751409 | Kudos | (n.) the acclaim, prestige, or renown that comes as the result of some action or achievement | 17 | |
| 9166751410 | Prototype | (n.) an original pattern or model; a primitive or ancestral form | 18 | |
| 9166751411 | Inveigle | (v.) to entice, lure, or snare by flattery or artful inducements; to obtain or acquire by artifice | 19 |