AP Language Vocab 6 Flashcards

5993380619	abortive	failing to succeed; unsuccessful	0
5993380620	bruit	to voice abroad; rumor	1
5993381744	contumelious	insulting display of contempt in words or actions; contemptuous or humiliating treatment.	2
5993381745	dictum	1. an authoritative pronouncement; judicial assertion. 2. a saying; maxim.	3
5993382395	ensconce	to settle securely or snugly	4
5993382396	iconoclastic	attacking or ignoring cherished beliefs and long-held traditions, etc., as being based on error, superstition, or lack of creativity:	5
5993383597	in media res	into the middle of a narrative; without preamble.	6
5993383598	internecine	of or relating to conflict or struggle within a group:	7
5993384655	maladroit	lacking in adroitness; unskillful; awkward; bungling; tactless	8
5993384656	maudlin	tearfully or weakly emotional; foolishly sentimental	9
5993385510	modulate	to regulate by or adjust to a certain measure or proportion; soften; tone down.	10
5993385511	portentous	an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.	11
5993386469	prescience	knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.	12
5993386470	quid pro quo	something that is given or taken in return for something else.	13
5993387439	salubrious	favorable to or promoting health; healthful	14
5993388091	saturnalian	1. the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking. 2. unrestrained revelry; orgy	15
5993388092	touchestone	a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing.	16
5993388093	traumatic	of, relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound.	17
5993390270	vitiate	to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.	18
5993390271	waggish	like a wag; roguish in merriment and good humor; jocular:	19