AP Literature and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

10821440835	abnegation	self-denial, rejection in favor of others	0
10821440836	acquiesce	to agree, to favor, to accept	1
10821440837	acrimony	sharp animosity, harshness, or bitterness	2
10821440838	acumen	superior mental qualities, keen insight	3
10821440839	aplomb	great poise, confident composure	4
10821440840	assuage	appease, satisfy, make less intense	5
10821440841	bedizen	ornament in a showy, gaudy, vulgar manner	6
10821440842	bucolic	pastoral, idyllically rural; of or relating to shepherds	7
10821440843	caliber	degree of merit, degree of mental capacity	8
10821440844	candid	frank, outspoken, sincere	9
10821440845	captious	fault-finding, exaggerating trivial defects	10
10821440846	charlatan	impostor, fraud	11
10821440847	cohort	companion, a group of warriors or soldiers	12
10821440848	credulity	gullibility, readiness to believe without evidence	13
10821440849	cupidity	greed, lust for wealth, excessive desire	14
10821440850	dilatory	delaying, procrastinating, inclined to waste time	15
10821440851	effusive	demonstrative, overflowing emotion	16
10821440852	elation	great joy or gladness, high spirits	17
10821440853	enjoin	direct someone to do something, to prohibit or forbid	18
10821440854	explicate	explain, make plain, make clear	19
10821440855	abrogate	abolish or treat as non-existent	20
10821440856	anachronistic	set in the wrong time, misdated	21
10821440857	ardor	fervor, zeal, passion	22
10821440858	auspicious	favorable, attended by good	23
10821440859	boorish	rude, unmannerly	24
10821440860	chastise	discipline, punish	25
10821440861	cogent	to the point, relevant	26
10821440862	conflagration	large, destructive fire or war	27
10821440863	coruscate	sparkle, gleam	28
10821440864	coterie	clique, select group of people	29
10821440865	decry	belittle, to condemn openly	30
10821440866	diatribe	tirade, criticism	31
10821440867	ebullient	high spirited, joyously unrestrained	32
10821440868	enervate	weaken, exhaust, deprive of strength	33
10821440869	erudite	learned, showing profound knowledge of	34
10821440870	exonerate	free from blame, relieve from responsibility	35
10821440871	fetid	stinking, having an offensive odor	36
10821440872	foment	instigate, attempt to stir up public opinion	37
10821440873	garrulous	wordy, rambling, excessively talkative	38
10821440874	gregarious	sociable, fond of company	39
10821440875	codicil	supplement to a will, a legal change to a will	40
10821440876	copious	abundant, plentiful	41
10821440877	diametrical	direct opposite, absolute reverse	42
10821440878	disburse	expend, distribute	43
10821440879	dolt	blockhead, stupid person	44
10821440880	duplicity	deceitfulness, deceptiveness	45
10821440881	effete	decadent, sterile, worn out	46
10821440882	equine	of, relating to, or resembling horses or the horse family	47
10821440883	exculpate	absolve, free from blame	48
10821440884	expedite	hasten, dispatch, quicken	49
10821440885	extemporize	to do in a makeshift way, to deliver impromptu	50
10821440886	fallible	liable to err, likely to fail or to make a mistake	51
10821440887	fatuous	inane, silly, unreal	52
10821440888	furtive	stealthy, sly, shifty	53
10821440889	gauche	awkward, tactless, lacking social grace	54
10821440890	germane	relevant, pertinent	55
10821440891	hone	sharpen, whet, file, grind	56
10821440892	immutable	unchangeable, unalterable	57
10821440893	iniquitous	sinful, wicked, vicious	58
10821440894	kudos	glory, a praising remark for exceptional achievement	59
10821440895	avarice	greed, cupidity	60
10821440896	calumny	slander, lies to damage another's reputation	61
10821440897	consonant	in agreement, in harmony	62
10821440898	dearth	scarcity, shortage, lack	63
10821440899	debacle	sudden collapse, a flood, a failure	64
10821440900	elan	dash, distinctive and stylish elegance	65
10821440901	elegy	a lament for the dead	66
10821440902	galvanize	startle into sudden activity, to coat with zinc	67
10821440903	histronics	acting, theatricals	68
10821440904	illicit	unlicensed, unlawful	69
10821440905	inane	pointless, silly, foolish	70
10821440906	intrinsic	innate, true, natural, inherent	71
10821440907	levity	lightness of character, excessive frivolity	72
10821440908	lucid	clear, bright, shining	73
10821440909	mercurial	active, lively, erratic	74
10821440910	paradox	seeming self-contradiction that's true, a statement opposing accepted opinion	75
10821440911	pathos	pity, evoking compassion	76
10821440912	pensive	reflective, meditative, dreamily thoughtful	77
10821440913	penurious	poor, impoverished	78
10821440914	plethora	excess, abundance, state of being overfull	79
10821440915	impolitic	unwise, injudicious	80
10821440916	incarnadine	blood-red, crimson, flesh color	81
10821440917	indigenous	native, natural, innate	82
10821440918	indigent	destitute, impoverished, needy	83
10821440919	ineffable	inexpressible, unutterable, indescribable, taboo	84
10821440920	inure	toughen, harden, habituate	85
10821440921	irascible	testy, touchy, irritable	86
10821440922	laud	praise, extol, acclaim, to glorify	87
10821440923	limpid	clear, transparent, lucid, serene	88
10821440924	lithe	pliant, flexible, supple	89
10821440925	loquacious	very talkative, garrulous	90
10821440926	ludricous	laughable, ridiculous, funny because of obvious absurdity	91
10821440927	lugubrious	mournful, dismal, gloomy, excessively sorrowful	92
10821440928	malfeasance	wrongdoing, official misconduct, illegal deed	93
10821440929	malign	defame, slander	94
10821440930	morass	marsh, bog, swamp	95
10821440931	mundane	common, ordinary, everyday	96
10821440932	pariah	outcast, Untouchable	97
10821440933	patrimony	heritage from one's father or other ancestor, legacy	98
10821440934	pecuniary	financial, monetary, relating to money	99
10821440935	abatement	the act of putting an end to, a deduction	100
10821440936	altruistic	unselfish concern for the welfare of others	101
10821440937	analogous	comparable, similar	102
10821440938	aquiline	hooked like an eagle's beak, having characteristics like an eagle	103
10821440939	austerity	strict economy, without adornment; a state of great self-denial	104
10821440940	brevity	shortness, conciseness, terseness	105
10821440941	castigate	criticize or punish severely	106
10821440942	deplorable	sad, pitiable, lamentable	107
10821440943	doddering	trembling, shaking with old age, to progress in a feeble manner	108
10821440944	ennui	boredom, weariness, dissatisfaction	109
10821440945	eyrie	nest of a bird of prey, a home	110
10821440946	jocularity	state of being playful, jesting, characterized by joking	111
10821440947	mandate	command, authorize, decree	112
10821440948	maudlin	mawkish, tearfully sentimental	113
10821440949	mete	dole, measure out, allot	114
10821440950	peregrination	travel from one place to another, journey	115
10821440951	prodigious	enormous, extraordinary in size or degree	116
10821440952	saturate	fill up completely	117
10821440953	temerity	foolish boldness, fearless, daring	118
10821440954	vacuous	stupidly blank or empty	119
10821440955	iconoclast	destroyer of images of idols, attacker of traditions	120
10821440956	impeccable	faultless, irreproachable	121
10821440957	inexorable	relentless, unyielding	122
10821440958	infer	conclude, to derive by reasoning, to guess, speculate	123
10821440959	insipid	pointless, flat, dull	124
10821440960	integral	entire, whole, essential	125
10821440961	invidious	offensive, obnoxious	126
10821440962	laconic	concise, expressing much in a few words	127
10821440963	lethargic	drowsy, sluggish, vagrant	128
10821440964	malignant	harmful, dangerous	129
10821440965	martial	warlike, pertaining to war	130
10821440966	misanthropy	hatred or dislike of mankind	131
10821440967	mollify	pacify, appease, reduce	132
10821440968	ominous	threatening, portentous	133
10821440969	omniscient	all-knowing, infinite awareness	134
10821440970	ostracism	banishment, exile, exclusion	135
10821440971	panegyric	formal eulogy, or commendation	136
10821440972	paradigm	model, pattern, standard	137
10821440973	parsimonious	stingy, excessively frugal.	138
10821440974	peripatetic	wandering, roving, vagrant	139
10821440975	affray	public fight or riot, quarrel, or brawl	140
10821440976	apothegm	short, pithy saying, terse remarks	141
10821440977	decrement	loss, decrease	142
10821440978	incongruous	lacking harmony or agreement	143
10821440979	salacious	lustful, lecherous, obscene	144
10821440980	sartorial	of or about tailors or tailoring	145
10821440981	soliloquy	talking as is alone; utterance by a person talking to himself	146
10821440982	sordid	dirty, vile	147
10821440983	stringent	strict, severe, exacting	148
10821440984	supplant	remove, replace, overthrow	149
10821440985	taciturn	uncommunicative, habitually silent	150
10821440986	tepid	lukewarm, moderately warm	151
10821440987	truculent	savage, cruel, fierce	152
10821440988	unctuous	suave, smug, excessively pious	153
10821440989	venal	mercenary, corruptible, able to be bribed	154
10821440990	verbose	wordy, loquacious, lack of incisiveness or precision	155
10821440991	vernacular	common, native language	156
10821440992	virago	a shrew; ill-tempered woman	157
10821440993	voracious	greedy, immoderate, insatiable	158
10821440994	tedium	boredom, ennui, dullness	159
10821440995	incite	provoke, arouse, goad	160
10821440996	insular	detached, isolated, having a narrow point of view	161
10821440997	intrepid	fearless, dauntless, fortitude	162
10821440998	manumission	freeing, release from slavery	163
10821440999	moribund	dying, stagnant, on the verge of extinction	164
10821441000	nescient	ignorant, agnostic, lack of knowledge	165
10821441001	obfuscate	confuse, cloud, make obscure	166
10821441002	placebo	substance having no pharmaceutical effect	167
10821441003	proliferation	excessive rapid spread	168
10821441004	pusillanimous	cowardly in spirit, fearful	169
10821441005	recondite	deep, difficult, profound, little known	170
10821441006	sanctimonious	hypocritical show of piety or righteousness	171
10821441007	similitude	likeness, resemblance, comparison	172
10821441008	soporific	of or about sleep, drowsy	173
10821441009	supine	inactive, passive, lying on the back	174
10821441010	tactile	tangible, perceptible to the touch	175
10821441011	temporal	secular, transitory of this world, limited by time	176
10821441012	ungulate	hoof like, of or about horses	177
10821441013	vapid	insipid, spiritless, inane	178
10821441014	zenith	acme, highest point	179
10821441015	antipathy	aversion, habitual repugnance	180
10821441016	wane	diminish, abate, decrease	181
10821441017	encomium	eulogy, formal expression of high praise	182
10821441018	cacophonous	harsh, discordant, unpleasant	183
10821441019	ambivalent	having opposing feelings or desires	184
10821441020	puissant	powerful, potent, mighty	185
10821441021	bellicose	pugnacious, ready to fight	186
10821441022	amenable	agreeable, answerable	187
10821441023	cavil	harp, nitpick, raise minor objections	188
10821441024	commodious	spacious, roomy	189
10821441025	desultory	disconnected, random, lacking in order	190
10821441026	discreet	judicious, tactful, diplomatic	191
10821441027	emanate	emit, send forth, flow out	192
10821441028	didactic	too inclined to teach, preach, or lecture	193
10821441029	ephemeral	transitory, short-lived, fleeting	194
10821441030	feckless	feeble, ineffective, worthless	195
10821441031	heinous	hateful, odious, abominable	196
10821441032	piquant	pungent, spicy, provocative	197
10821441033	obstreperous	unruly, uncontrolled, vociferous, clamorous	198
10821441034	discrete	separate, distinct, detached from others	199