AP Literature Strickland (List Fourteen) Flashcards

8367817866	Penultimate	easily next to the last; second to the last; last but one in a series of things	0
8367817867	Venal	describes a person susceptible to bribery; showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery	1
8367817868	Bamboozle	confound, cheat, cozen; fool or cheat someone; confound or perplex	2
8367817869	Subnivean	below the snow; situated or occuring under the snow	3
8367817870	Arboreal	related to trees; (chiefly of animals) living in trees	4
8367817871	Circumlocution	talk around the subject; the use of many words where fewer would do, esp. in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive	5
8367817872	Bildungsroman	novel about the coming of age of a woman or man; a novel dealing with one person's formative years of spiritual education	6
8367817873	Crapulous	overindulgence of food or drink; given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating	7
8367817874	Mordant	biting, caustic, burns; (esp. of humor) having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting	8
8367817875	Cynosure	a person or an event at the center of attention as a result of admiration; center of attention or admiration	9