AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 7467308614 | surreptitious (adj) | secret; stealthy | 0 | |
| 7467308615 | sagacity (n) | wisdom | 1 | |
| 7467308616 | tenacious (adj) | determined | 2 | |
| 7467308617 | reclusive (adj) | preferring isolation | 3 | |
| 7467308618 | prudent (adj) | careful, cautious | 4 | |
| 7467308619 | prosaic (adj) | dull, commonplace | 5 | |
| 7467308620 | querulous (adj) | complaining; irritable | 6 | |
| 7467308621 | resilient (adj) | quick to recover | 7 | |
| 7467308622 | subtle (adj) | hard to detect or describe | 8 | |
| 7467308623 | vindicate (v) | to free from blame | 9 | |
| 7618904531 | mundane (adj) | commonplace; ordinary | 10 | |
| 7618906475 | sedentary (adj) | settled; not migratory (not moving) | 11 | |
| 7618910356 | pugnacious (adj) | belligerent; combative | 12 | |
| 7618913756 | indolent (adj) | lazy | 13 | |
| 7618916598 | supplicate (v) | to beg or plead for | 14 | |
| 7618918835 | intrepid (adj) | fearless; courageous | 15 | |
| 7618920453 | poignant (adj) | profoundly moving; touching | 16 | |
| 7618925769 | sonorous (adj) | having or producing sound | 17 | |
| 7618927371 | convoluted (adj) | intricate; complex; coiled | 18 | |
| 7667990387 | incumbent (adj) | obligatory; imposed as a duty | 19 | |
| 7838732199 | egregious (adj) | conspicuously, offensively bad | 20 | |
| 7838732200 | cantankerous (adj) | grumpy; disagreeable | 21 | |
| 7838732201 | reticent (adj) | reluctant to speak | 22 | |
| 7838732202 | annihilate (v) | to destroy completely | 23 | |
| 7838732203 | sanguine (adj) | cheerfully confident | 24 | |
| 7838732204 | superfluous (adj) | extra; unnecessary | 25 | |
| 7838732205 | obsolete (adj) | old-fashioned; out of date | 26 | |
| 7838732206 | insolent (adj) | insulting in manner or speech | 27 | |
| 7838732207 | incorrigible (adj) | unable to be reformed | 28 | |
| 7838732208 | meticulous (adj) | extremely careful and precise | 29 | |
| 8047392992 | pernicious (adj) | extremely harmful; fatal | 30 | |
| 8047392993 | denizen (n) | an inhabitant; one who frequents a place | 31 | |
| 8047392994 | saturnine (adj) | gloomy, heavy, dull | 32 | |
| 8047392995 | parsimonious (adj) | unduly sparing in the spending of money | 33 | |
| 8047392996 | auspicious (adj) | favorable | 34 | |
| 8047392997 | antediluvian (adj) | antiquated; before the flood | 35 | |
| 8047392998 | chicanery (n) | deception; trickery | 36 | |
| 8047392999 | pyrrhic (adj) | ruinous; gained at too great a cost | 37 | |
| 8047393000 | inscrutable (adj) | not easily understood; hidden | 38 | |
| 8047393001 | evanescent (adj) | vanishing too soon; light; airy | 39 | |
| 8180609251 | dilatory (adj) | one who delays; one who is habitually late | 40 | |
| 8180609252 | au courant (adj) | well-informed; up-to-date | 41 | |
| 8180609253 | insipid (adj) | uninteresting; unchallenging | 42 | |
| 8180609254 | enervate (v) | to weaken; to tire out | 43 | |
| 8180609255 | ambience (n) | surrounding atmosphere | 44 | |
| 8180609256 | soporific (adj) | causing sleepiness | 45 | |
| 8180609257 | ebullience (n) | intense enthusiasm | 46 | |
| 8180609258 | garrulous (adj) | given to excessive, rambling talk | 47 | |
| 8180609259 | didactic (adj) | intended to instruct | 48 | |
| 8180609260 | dogmatic (adj) | stubbornness in the face of insufficiently proved beliefs | 49 | |
| 8408178853 | sardonic (adj) | scornfully, darkly sarcastic | 50 | |
| 8408178854 | mollify (v) | to calm; to soothe | 51 | |
| 8408178855 | scintillating (adj) | sparkling; brilliant | 52 | |
| 8408178856 | mawkish (adj) | excessively, objectionably sentimental | 53 | |
| 8408178857 | élan (n) | cheerful enthusiasm | 54 | |
| 8408178858 | sangfroid (n) | coolness; composure | 55 | |
| 8408178859 | sartorial (adj) | pertaining to clothing, to the work of a tailor | 56 | |
| 8408178860 | prolific (adj) | abundantly productive | 57 | |
| 8408178861 | exculpate (v) | to free from guilt or blame | 58 | |
| 8408178862 | profligate (adj) | given over to self-indulgence | 59 | |
| 8577522647 | obsequious (adj) | servile; fawning | 60 | |
| 8577522648 | innocuous (adj) | harmless | 61 | |
| 8577522649 | ostensible (adj) | apparent; appearing to be true | 62 | |
| 8577522650 | enigmatic (adj) | puzzling; mysterious; perplexing | 63 | |
| 8577522651 | lugubrious (adj) | mournful; dismal | 64 | |
| 8577522652 | choleric (adj) | bad-tempered | 65 | |
| 8577522653 | encumber (v) | to weigh down; to burden | 66 | |
| 8577522654 | nihilism (n) | total and absolute destructiveness | 67 | |
| 8577522655 | inculcate (v) | to implant by repeated statement | 68 | |
| 8577522656 | paradigm (n) | an example serving as a model, pattern | 69 | |
| 8981069066 | jocose (adj) | given to playful joking | 70 | |
| 8981069067 | maladroit (adj) | clumsy | 71 | |
| 8981069068 | palatable (adj) | agreeable; tasteful | 72 | |
| 8981069069 | pecuniary (adj) | pertaining to money | 73 | |
| 8981069070 | nefarious (adj) | very wicked | 74 | |
| 8981069071 | obfuscate (v) | to make complex | 75 | |
| 8981069072 | machinations (n) | evil plots | 76 | |
| 8981069073 | facetious (adj) | given to inappropriate joking | 77 | |
| 8981069074 | potable (adj) | suitable for drinking | 78 | |
| 8981069075 | quiescent (adj) | dormant | 79 | |
| 8981069076 | cacophonous (adj) | discordant sound | 80 | |
| 8981069077 | kindred (adj) | related | 81 | |
| 8981069078 | baroque (adj) | highly ornate | 82 | |
| 8981069079 | ignominy (n) | dishonor | 83 | |
| 8981069080 | germane (adj) | pertinent; relevant | 84 | |
| 8981069081 | aberrant (adj) | deviant | 85 | |
| 8981069082 | ensconce (v) | to settle comfortably | 86 | |
| 8981069083 | lassitude (n) | weariness | 87 | |
| 8981069084 | heinous (adj) | outrageously evil | 88 | |
| 8981069085 | deleterious (adj) | harmful | 89 | |
| 9228354749 | diaphanous (adj) | sheer; transparent | 90 | |
| 9228354750 | corrugated (adj) | wrinkled; ridged | 91 | |
| 9228354751 | dubious (adj) | doubtful; questionable | 92 | |
| 9228354752 | cavalier (adj) | offhand or casual; haughty | 93 | |
| 9228354753 | ambivalence (n) | state of conflicting emotions | 94 | |
| 9228354754 | engender (v) | to cause; to produce | 95 | |
| 9228354755 | cursory (adj) | hastily done | 96 | |
| 9228354756 | dissipate (v) | to squander; to waste | 97 | |
| 9228354757 | bereft (adj) | deprived of; desolate because of loss | 98 | |
| 9228354758 | abstruse (adj) | obscure; profound | 99 | |
| 9437477730 | contiguous (adj) | adjacent; sharing a boundary | 100 | |
| 9437477731 | factitious (adj) | contrived; not genuine; produced by humans not by natural forces | 101 | |
| 9437477732 | myriad (adj) | innumerable; countless | 102 | |
| 9437477733 | aspersions (n) | damaging, slanderous remarks | 103 | |
| 9437477734 | cull (v) | to gather; to select | 104 | |
| 9437477735 | perspicacious (adj) | shrewd; keen in judgement | 105 | |
| 9437477736 | copious (adj) | plentiful; abundant | 106 | |
| 9437477737 | extrapolate (v) | to infer from that which is known | 107 | |
| 9437477738 | ubiquitous (adj) | present everywhere | 108 | |
| 9437477739 | recondite (adj) | abstruse (difficult) subject matter | 109 | |
| 9691388615 | erudite (adj) | learned; having or showing great knowledge | 110 | |
| 9691388616 | fulsome (adj) | offensively flattering or insincere | 111 | |
| 9691388617 | imperturbable (adj) | marked by extreme calm and steadiness; serene | 112 | |
| 9691388618 | impasse (n) | a road or passage having no exit; deadlock | 113 | |
| 9691388619 | hedonist (n) | pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially the pleasures of the senses | 114 | |
| 9691388620 | fatuous (adj) | vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish | 115 | |
| 9691388621 | iniquitous (adj) | wicked | 116 | |
| 9691388622 | euphemism (n) | the substitution of a mild, indirect, vague expression for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive | 117 | |
| 9691388623 | indefatigable (adj) | incapable or seemingly incapable of being fatigued; tireless | 118 | |
| 9691388624 | heterodox (adj) | not in agreement with accepted beliefs, especially in church dogma or doctrine; holding unorthodox opinions; unconventional | 119 |