AP English Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

10434881542	Abate	become less in amount or intensity	0
10434881543	Abject	Cast off, rejected, cast out, expelled	1
10434881544	Ablution	A cleansing with with water or other liquid as a religious ritual	2
10434881545	Abominable	Hateful, detestable, loathsome	3
10434881546	Acquiesce	To accept, comply, or submit	4
10434881547	Adulterate	To make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance	5
10434881548	Aloof	Remote in manner	6
10434881549	Antiquated	So extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period	7
10434881550	Apostate	One who abjures or forsakes his religious faith	8
10434881551	Apprehend	Anticipate with dread or anxiety	9
10434881552	Approbation	Approval	10
10434881553	Arbitress	One who settles disputes	11
10434881554	Ardor	feelings of great warmth and intensity	12
10434881555	Ascertain	To learn with certainty	13
10434881556	Assiduous	Diligent (showing care and persistent effort)	14
10434881557	Augment	enlarge or increase	15
10434881558	Augury	An event indicating important things to come	16
10434881559	Auspicious	Auguring favorable circumstances and good luck	17
10434881560	Avarice	Greed for riches and wealth	18
10434881561	Bequeath	Hand down or pass on	19
10434881562	Candour	Frankness or outspokenness	20
10434881563	Caprice	Sudden whim or fancy	21
10434881564	Catharsis	the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions	22
10434881565	Clairvoyant	Capable of perceiving through intuition things that cannot be seen	23
10434881566	Complacency	A feeling of quiet pleasure or security	24
10434881567	Compunction	A feeling of remorse or guilt	25
10434881568	Conclave	A private room, inner chamber, closet	26
10434881569	Condescend	Assume an air of superiority (in Austen times graciously lowering oneself)	27
10434881570	Conjecture	Opinion found on insufficient guess (or to form one)	28
10434881571	Contrite	Feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or offense	29
10434881572	Countenance	Appearance, especially the look on ones face (or to tolerate/allow)	30
10434881573	Credulous	Gullible	31
10434881574	Crevice	A crack forming an opening	32
10434881575	Decorum	Orderliness, regularity proper behavior, speech, or dress	33
10434881576	Decrepit	Worn out by old age	34
10434881577	Deference	Respecting the opinion of another	35
10434881578	Denounce	To strongly criticize or accuse publicly	36
10434881579	Depravity	Complete immorality or evil	37
10434881580	Derision	Ridicule, mockery	38
10434881581	Despot	a king or other ruler with absolute, unlimited power; any tyrant or oppressor	39
10434881582	Discern	To notice or understand something- often something that is not obvious	40
10434881583	Discord	Unpleasant sound-especially a combination of sounds that sound wrong together (though sometimes done intentionally in music)	41
10434881584	Disdain	A lack of respect- often suggesting distante and an undeserved sense of superiority	42
10434881585	Divine	To predict or discover something supernaturally (as if by magic)	43
10434881586	Dubious	Objectively doubtful, fraught with doubt or uncertainty	44
10434881587	Emphatic	Uttered with emphasis	45
10434881588	Enumerate	Name one by one	46
10434881589	Ethereal	Characterized by an air-like insubstantiality	47
10434881590	Expedient	Something that is useful or helpful	48
10434881591	Expostulation	Earnest and kindly protesting	49
10434881592	Extol	praise, glorify, or honor	50
10434881593	Fastidious	Overly difficult to please	51
10434881594	Felicity	Great happiness	52
10434881595	Filial	of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter	53
10434881596	Fortnight	Two weeks	54
10434881597	Gallant	Polite or attentive to women brave	55
10434881598	Guile	Cunning (shrewdness and cleverness) and deceitful	56
10434881599	Hubris	Excessive pride or arrogance	57
10434881600	Ignominy	Dishonor, disgrace, shame	58
10434881601	Impertinent	Irrelevant, rude or insolent	59
10434881602	Impetuous	Impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought) - often with an unfortunate consequence	60
10434881603	Implacable	Not to be appeased or made peace with	61
10434881604	Incorporeal	Having no bodily or material structure; not composed of matter, immaterial.	62
10434881605	Indignation	Anger aroused by something unjust	63
10434881606	Inducement	to persuade into action	64
10434881607	Iniquitous	Unjust, wicked	65
10434881608	Insipidity	Lacking taste or flavor, dull or flat	66
10434881609	Intolerable	Unable to be endured	67
10434881610	Jocund	Feeling, expressing, or communicating mirth or cheerfulness; mirthful, merry, cheerful, blithe, gay.	68
10434881611	Laudable	Deserving praise, praiseworthy	69
10434881612	Mortal	Human (especially merely human); or subject to death	70
10434881613	Obdurate	Flinty, hard, stubborn	71
10434881614	Odious	Deserving or causing hatred	72
10434881615	Opprobrious	Of words, languages, etc.; expressing scorn; reproachful; scorn	73
10434881616	Ordinance	A decree or command or law	74
10434881617	Ostentation	pretentious or conspicuous show, trying to impress	75
10434881618	Panegyric	A formal or elaborate praise	76
10434881619	Parricide	the act of killing one's father, mother, or other close relative or a person who commits such an act	77
10434881620	Pedantic	Insist on petty details of things they know	78
10434881621	Perdition	The fact or condition of being destroyed or ruined; utter destruction, complete ruin.	79
10434881622	Perfidy	An act of deliberate betrayal; or such behavior	80
10434881623	Piqued	Irritated, aroused or provoked	81
10434881624	Precipitance	Rash haste, suddenness, hurried	82
10434881625	Primal	Original	83
10434881626	Prodigious	Extraordinary in size or degree	84
10434881627	Propensity	A natural inclination or tendency	85
10434881628	Prudent	Judicious in practical affairs; marked by wisdom	86
10434881629	Puissant	Possessed of or wielding power; having great authority or influence; mighty, potent, powerful.	87
10434881630	Rapture	Ecstatic state of joy or happiness	88
10434881631	Regicide	the act of killing a king	89
10434881632	Solace	Comfort during grief	90
10434881633	Suppliant	A person who petitions or humbly asks for something	91
10434881634	Surmise	To conjecture, presume, suppose	92
10434881635	Treatise	A summary of information on a specific topic	93
10434881636	Tumult	Violent uproar	94
10434881637	Transcendent	Surpassing or excelling others of its kind; going beyond the ordinary limits	95
10434881638	Vacuous	Lacking intelligent thought	96
10434881639	Venerate	Revere, honor, respect	97
10434881640	Wrath	Extreme anger- sometimes implying angry punishment	98
10434881641	Zeal	Active interest and enthusiasm	99