AP Literature Vocabulary Week #5 Flashcards
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8069317550 | tremulous | timid, fearful; characterized as trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness | 0 | |
8069328104 | lionize | to treat as person as a celebrity | 1 | |
8069333759 | petulant | moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance | 2 | |
8069344419 | abject | utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched | 3 | |
8069350530 | ribald | vulgar or indecent in speech, language, etc.; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous | 4 | |
8069362853 | inveterate | settled or confirmed in a habit; practice, feeling, or the like | 5 | |
8069367685 | insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting | 6 | |
8069374032 | choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered | 7 | |
8069381069 | phlegmatic | not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish | 8 | |
8069390955 | histrionic | deliberately affected or self-consciously emotional; overly dramatic, in behavior or speech | 9 | |
8069400664 | facetious | not meant to be taken seriously or literally | 10 | |
8069406136 | wistful | characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning | 11 |