AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

10655656627	Acuity	Sharpness, keeness	0
10655656628	Adept	Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude	1
10655656629	Admonish / Admonition	Warn, scold, caution	2
10655656630	Ambiguous	Unclear meaning, two possible interpretations	3
10655656631	Apocalyptic	Involving or portending widespread devastation or ultimate doom	4
10655656632	Apocryphal	Of questionable authenticity	5
10655656633	Appellation	A name, title, or designation	6
10655656634	Archetype / archetypal	An original model, pattern or type (after an original model)	7
10655656635	Ascertain	To determine To find out	8
10655656636	Assiduous	Diligent, persistent	9
10655656637	Baize	A type of coarse woolen cloth, often green, usually used for covering card tables	10
10655656638	Base	Inferior, dishonorable	11
10655656639	Bastion	A well-fortified position	12
10655656640	Berate	To rebuke, reprimand, or scold	13
10655656641	Bourgeoisie	The middle class In Marxist theory, the social group opposed to the proletariat (working class)	14
10655656642	Calumny	Slander A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation	15
10655656643	Cant	Tedious talk Monotonous talk filled with platitudes	16
10655656644	Censure	To reprimand To excommunicate (expel, as from the priesthood)	17
10655656645	Coarse	Lacking refinement or rough grained in texture	18
10655656646	Confute	To prove to be wrong or in error	19
10655656647	Connoisseur	Person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts	20
10655656648	Corporeal	Having physical substance, material form	21
10655656649	Decry	Express strong disapproval of	22
10655656650	Defer / deference	Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion	23
10655656651	Deliquesce	To disappear as if by melting	24
10655656652	Dilatory	Inclined to waste time and lag behind	25
10655656653	Disparage	To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value them	26
10655656654	Draught	A current of unpleasantly cold air blowing through a room (archaic for draft)	27
10655656655	Dray	A large low carriage with four wheels pulled by	28
10655656656	Dyspeptic / Dyspepsia	Always angry or easily annoyed or having indigestion	29
10655656657	Elicit	To call forth, draw out, or provoke To bring or draw out	30
10655656658	Emit	To send out a beam, noise, small or gas	31
10655656659	Espionage	Spying The discovering of secrets, especially political or military information of another country or the industrial information of a business	32
10655656660	Facile	East, effortless	33
10655656661	Feign	To pretend, to dissemble, to misrepresent	34
10655656662	Fester	To become infected, to suppurations An infection (can be a noun and a verb)	35
10655656663	Festoon	Draped, decorated as for a parade or state event	36
10655656664	Fledgling	New and inexperienced	37
10655656665	Gainsay	Challenge, dispute	38
10655656666	Genuflect	To now as before a priest	39
10655656667	Grandeur	Magnificent, splendid, vast beauty	40
10655656668	Grudging	Done in an unwilling way Unwillingly	41
10655656669	Hack	A reporter, artist or writer whose work is not very good	42
10655656670	Husband	To use something carefully so that you do not use all of it	43
10655656671	Illicit	Contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention	44
10655656672	Illusory	Not real, based on illusion	45
10655656673	Imbibe	To drink, especially alcohol	46
10655656674	Inexorable	Without end, interminable	47
10655728433	Introspection	Examination of and attention to your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings	48
10655746416	Kowtow	To show too much respect to someone in authority, always obeying them and changing what you do in order to please them What a "toady" does, sucking up	49
10655746417	Languid, languished, languor	Without energy Pleasant mental or physical tiredness or lack of activity	50
10655746418	Latent	Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized	51
10655746419	Magnanimity	Great generosity of spirit or money	52
10658160045	Malevolent	I'll will, malicious	53
10658160046	Mutton	Meat from a sheep	54
10658160047	Orthodoxy	A belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards	55
10658160048	Parochial	Provincial Country like, or of a parish (church community or region)	56
10658160049	Pathos	Poignancy Quality of emotion in a work of art of literature	57
10658160050	Pecuniary	Relating to money	58
10658160051	Permeate	Pervade, penetrate, get into everything	59
10658160052	Pernicious	Deadly, harmful, pestilent	60
10658160053	Pious	Godly, reverent, holy (state of being pious)	61
10658160054	Plait / plaits	To braid Braids	62
10658160055	Porter	A railroad employee who assists passengers	63
10658160056	Prattle	Idle talk, to go on and on meaninglessly	64
10658160057	Precipitate / precipitous	To chase to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely Done hastily, without thought	65
10658160058	Precocious	Characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity, especially mental development	66
10658334606	Prerogative	Privilege, right	67
10658334607	Profligate	Wasteful, extravagant, prodigal	68
10658334608	Prostrate	To lay face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration	69
10658334609	Prudent	Careful and sensible Marked by sound judgment	70
10658334610	Qualm	An uncomfortable feeling of doubt about whether you are doing the right thing	71
10658334611	Randy	Sexually aroused	72
10658334612	Recitation	an event when one recites a literary work (usually) orally for an audience	73
10661189756	reiterate	to say or explain again	74
10661190464	resonant	strong and deep in one or strongly reminiscent evocative	75
10661191309	rheumatism	any painful disorder of joints or muscles or connective tissues	76
10661192887	sated	satisfied, full	77
10661192888	scant	barely sufficient	78
10661195101	schizoid	of, relating to, or having a personality disorder marked by extreme shyness, flat affect, discomfort with others, and an inability to form close relationships a person who is reclusive	79
10661197481	self-abasement	to put oneself down, to denigrate oneself	80
10661198487	sodden	drenched, soaked, sopping expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink	81
10661199862	tawdry	cheap, gaudy, trashy, tacky	82
10661200510	throes	condition of agonizing struggle or trouble	83
10661202670	timorous	fearful, shy, timid	84
10661203234	torrent	an overwhelming number or amount or violently fast stream of water	85
10661204463	torpor	listlessness, languor, without energy, apathetic	86
10661205450	transcendent	beyond ordinary, sublime	87
10661205916	transient	fleeting, not lasting	88
10661206814	tremulous	quivering as from weakness or fear	89
10661208160	turbid	churned up, cloudy, muddy, murky	90
10661208881	unabashed	not embarrassed	91
10661208882	variegated	having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors varicolored	92
10661210819	veracity	truthfulness	93
10661210820	veritable	being true so-called real or genuine	94
10661211984	vigilant	on guard, cautiously aware, continuous attention	95
10661212654	vigilante	one who takes or advocates the taking of law enforcement into one's own hands	96
10661213562	vociferation	cry out loudly and vehemently, especially in protest	97
10661214577	voluble	talking easily, readily, and at length fluent	98
10661215602	weft	the horizontal threads interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric	99