AP Lit Vocab 6 Flashcards

8378537497	adulation	excessive, often slavish, admiration or flattery	0
8378537498	bombastic	sounding important or impressive, but not sincere or meaningful	1
8378537499	bourgeois	having qualities or values associated with the middle class - particularly, too concerned about wealth, possessions, and respectable behavior	2
8378537500	cajole	to persuade someone to do something by making promises or saying nice things	3
8378537501	callow	inexperienced, immature; lacking sophistication	4
8378537502	choleric	hot-tempered; easily angered	5
8378537503	compulsory	required by a law or rule	6
8378537504	countenance	the appearance of a person's face OR approval; moral support	7
8378537505	demean	to lower in character, status, or reputation	8
8378537506	digression	a departure from the main topic (in speech or writing); a tangent	9
8378537507	feckless	weak, ineffective, and worthless	10
8378537508	foreboding	foretelling, predicting OR a feeling of certainty as to a coming ill or misfortune	11
8378537509	grandiloquent	lofty, extravagant, and bombastic in style of language	12
8378537510	harrowing	very distressing or painful	13
8378537511	impetus	a driving force	14
8378537512	inexorable	not able to be stopped or changed	15
8378537513	jocular	habitually jolly and joking	16
8378537514	lugubrious	full of sadness or sorrow, often in an exaggerated or insincere way	17
8378537515	monotonous	boring because of repetition/sameness	18
8378537516	pacifist	strongly and actively opposed to conflict and especially war OR one who is...	19
8378537517	presumptuous	too confident, in a way that is rude	20
8378537518	qualms	feeling of doubt or uncertainty about whether you are doing the right thing	21
8378537519	surfeit	an amount that is too much or more than needed	22
8378537520	urbane	sophisticated; polite and polished in manner	23