AP Literature: Vocabulary Unit 2 Flashcards
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| 7747708603 | Accost | (v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way | 0 | |
| 7747708604 | Animadversion | (n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | 1 | |
| 7747708605 | Avid | (adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | 2 | |
| 7747708606 | Brackish | (adj.) having a salty tast and unpleasant to drink | 3 | |
| 7747708607 | Celerity | (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | 4 | |
| 7747708608 | Devious | (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way | 5 | |
| 7747708609 | Gambit | (n.) in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type | 6 | |
| 7747708610 | Halcyon | (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | 7 | |
| 7747708611 | Histrionic | (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | 8 | |
| 7747708612 | Incendiary | (adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife | 9 | |
| 7747708613 | Maelstrom | (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | 10 | |
| 7747708614 | Myopic | (adj.) nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation, lacking foresight or discernment | 11 | |
| 7747708615 | Overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | 12 | |
| 7747708616 | Pejorative | (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | 13 | |
| 7747708617 | Propriety | (n.) state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | 14 | |
| 7747708618 | Sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | 15 | |
| 7747708619 | Summarily | (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | 16 | |
| 7747708620 | Suppliant | (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | 17 | |
| 7747708621 | Talisman | (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | 18 | |
| 7747708622 | Undulate | (v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | 19 |