AP Literature and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

10764773142	abnegation	self-denial, rejection in favor of others	0
10764773143	acquiesce	to agree, to favor, to accept	1
10764773144	acrimony	sharp animosity, harshness, or bitterness	2
10764773145	acumen	superior mental qualities, keen insight	3
10764773146	aplomb	great poise, confident composure	4
10764773147	assuage	appease, satisfy, make less intense	5
10764773148	bedizen	ornament in a showy, gaudy, vulgar manner	6
10764773149	bucolic	pastoral, idyllically rural; of or relating to shepherds	7
10764773150	caliber	degree of merit, degree of mental capacity	8
10764773151	candid	frank, outspoken, sincere	9
10764773152	captious	fault-finding, exaggerating trivial defects	10
10764773153	charlatan	impostor, fraud	11
10764773154	cohort	companion, a group of warriors or soldiers	12
10764773155	credulity	gullibility, readiness to believe without evidence	13
10764773156	cupidity	greed, lust for wealth, excessive desire	14
10764773157	dilatory	delaying, procrastinating, inclined to waste time	15
10764773158	effusive	demonstrative, overflowing emotion	16
10764773159	elation	great joy or gladness, high spirits	17
10764773160	enjoin	direct someone to do something, to prohibit or forbid	18
10764773161	explicate	explain, make plain, make clear	19
10764773162	abrogate	abolish or treat as non-existent	20
10764773163	anachronistic	set in the wrong time, misdated	21
10764773164	ardor	fervor, zeal, passion	22
10764773165	auspicious	favorable, attended by good	23
10764773166	boorish	rude, unmannerly	24
10764773167	chastise	discipline, punish	25
10764773168	cogent	to the point, relevant	26
10764773169	conflagration	large, destructive fire or war	27
10764773170	coruscate	sparkle, gleam	28
10764773171	coterie	clique, select group of people	29
10764773172	decry	belittle, to condemn openly	30
10764773173	diatribe	tirade, criticism	31
10764773174	ebullient	high spirited, joyously unrestrained	32
10764773175	enervate	weaken, exhaust, deprive of strength	33
10764773176	erudite	learned, showing profound knowledge of	34
10764773177	exonerate	free from blame, relieve from responsibility	35
10764773178	fetid	stinking, having an offensive odor	36
10764773179	foment	instigate, attempt to stir up public opinion	37
10764773180	garrulous	wordy, rambling, excessively talkative	38
10764773181	gregarious	sociable, fond of company	39
10764773182	codicil	supplement to a will, a legal change to a will	40
10764773183	copious	abundant, plentiful	41
10764773184	diametrical	direct opposite, absolute reverse	42
10764773185	disburse	expend, distribute	43
10764773186	dolt	blockhead, stupid person	44
10764773187	duplicity	deceitfulness, deceptiveness	45
10764773188	effete	decadent, sterile, worn out	46
10764773189	equine	of, relating to, or resembling horses or the horse family	47
10764773190	exculpate	absolve, free from blame	48
10764773191	expedite	hasten, dispatch, quicken	49
10764773192	extemporize	to do in a makeshift way, to deliver impromptu	50
10764773193	fallible	liable to err, likely to fail or to make a mistake	51
10764773194	fatuous	inane, silly, unreal	52
10764773195	furtive	stealthy, sly, shifty	53
10764773196	gauche	awkward, tactless, lacking social grace	54
10764773197	germane	relevant, pertinent	55
10764773198	hone	sharpen, whet, file, grind	56
10764773199	immutable	unchangeable, unalterable	57
10764773200	iniquitous	sinful, wicked, vicious	58
10764773201	kudos	glory, a praising remark for exceptional achievement	59
10764773202	avarice	greed, cupidity	60
10764773203	calumny	slander, lies to damage another's reputation	61
10764773204	consonant	in agreement, in harmony	62
10764773205	dearth	scarcity, shortage, lack	63
10764773206	debacle	sudden collapse, a flood, a failure	64
10764773207	elan	dash, distinctive and stylish elegance	65
10764773208	elegy	a lament for the dead	66
10764773209	galvanize	startle into sudden activity, to coat with zinc	67
10764773210	histronics	acting, theatricals	68
10764773211	illicit	unlicensed, unlawful	69
10764773212	inane	pointless, silly, foolish	70
10764773213	intrinsic	innate, true, natural, inherent	71
10764773214	levity	lightness of character, excessive frivolity	72
10764773215	lucid	clear, bright, shining	73
10764773216	mercurial	active, lively, erratic	74
10764773217	paradox	seeming self-contradiction that's true, a statement opposing accepted opinion	75
10764773218	pathos	pity, evoking compassion	76
10764773219	pensive	reflective, meditative, dreamily thoughtful	77
10764773220	penurious	poor, impoverished	78
10764773221	plethora	excess, abundance, state of being overfull	79
10764773222	impolitic	unwise, injudicious	80
10764773223	incarnadine	blood-red, crimson, flesh color	81
10764773224	indigenous	native, natural, innate	82
10764773225	indigent	destitute, impoverished, needy	83
10764773226	ineffable	inexpressible, unutterable, indescribable, taboo	84
10764773227	inure	toughen, harden, habituate	85
10764773228	irascible	testy, touchy, irritable	86
10764773229	laud	praise, extol, acclaim, to glorify	87
10764773230	limpid	clear, transparent, lucid, serene	88
10764773231	lithe	pliant, flexible, supple	89
10764773232	loquacious	very talkative, garrulous	90
10764773233	ludricous	laughable, ridiculous, funny because of obvious absurdity	91
10764773234	lugubrious	mournful, dismal, gloomy, excessively sorrowful	92
10764773235	malfeasance	wrongdoing, official misconduct, illegal deed	93
10764773236	malign	defame, slander	94
10764773237	morass	marsh, bog, swamp	95
10764773238	mundane	common, ordinary, everyday	96
10764773239	pariah	outcast, Untouchable	97
10764773240	patrimony	heritage from one's father or other ancestor, legacy	98
10764773241	pecuniary	financial, monetary, relating to money	99
10764773242	abatement	the act of putting an end to, a deduction	100
10764773243	altruistic	unselfish concern for the welfare of others	101
10764773244	analogous	comparable, similar	102
10764773245	aquiline	hooked like an eagle's beak, having characteristics like an eagle	103
10764773246	austerity	strict economy, without adornment; a state of great self-denial	104
10764773247	brevity	shortness, conciseness, terseness	105
10764773248	castigate	criticize or punish severely	106
10764773249	deplorable	sad, pitiable, lamentable	107
10764773250	doddering	trembling, shaking with old age, to progress in a feeble manner	108
10764773251	ennui	boredom, weariness, dissatisfaction	109
10764773252	eyrie	nest of a bird of prey, a home	110
10764773253	jocularity	state of being playful, jesting, characterized by joking	111
10764773254	mandate	command, authorize, decree	112
10764773255	maudlin	mawkish, tearfully sentimental	113
10764773256	mete	dole, measure out, allot	114
10764773257	peregrination	travel from one place to another, journey	115
10764773258	prodigious	enormous, extraordinary in size or degree	116
10764773259	saturate	fill up completely	117
10764773260	temerity	foolish boldness, fearless, daring	118
10764773261	vacuous	stupidly blank or empty	119
10764773262	iconoclast	destroyer of images of idols, attacker of traditions	120
10764773263	impeccable	faultless, irreproachable	121
10764773264	inexorable	relentless, unyielding	122
10764773265	infer	conclude, to derive by reasoning, to guess, speculate	123
10764773266	insipid	pointless, flat, dull	124
10764773267	integral	entire, whole, essential	125
10764773268	invidious	offensive, obnoxious	126
10764773269	laconic	concise, expressing much in a few words	127
10764773270	lethargic	drowsy, sluggish, vagrant	128
10764773271	malignant	harmful, dangerous	129
10764773272	martial	warlike, pertaining to war	130
10764773273	misanthropy	hatred or dislike of mankind	131
10764773274	mollify	pacify, appease, reduce	132
10764773275	ominous	threatening, portentous	133
10764773276	omniscient	all-knowing, infinite awareness	134
10764773277	ostracism	banishment, exile, exclusion	135
10764773278	panegyric	formal eulogy, or commendation	136
10764773279	paradigm	model, pattern, standard	137
10764773280	parsimonious	stingy, excessively frugal.	138
10764773281	peripatetic	wandering, roving, vagrant	139
10764773282	affray	public fight or riot, quarrel, or brawl	140
10764773283	apothegm	short, pithy saying, terse remarks	141
10764773284	decrement	loss, decrease	142
10764773285	incongruous	lacking harmony or agreement	143
10764773286	salacious	lustful, lecherous, obscene	144
10764773287	sartorial	of or about tailors or tailoring	145
10764773288	soliloquy	talking as is alone; utterance by a person talking to himself	146
10764773289	sordid	dirty, vile	147
10764773290	stringent	strict, severe, exacting	148
10764773291	supplant	remove, replace, overthrow	149
10764773292	taciturn	uncommunicative, habitually silent	150
10764773293	tepid	lukewarm, moderately warm	151
10764773294	truculent	savage, cruel, fierce	152
10764773295	unctuous	suave, smug, excessively pious	153
10764773296	venal	mercenary, corruptible, able to be bribed	154
10764773297	verbose	wordy, loquacious, lack of incisiveness or precision	155
10764773298	vernacular	common, native language	156
10764773299	virago	a shrew; ill-tempered woman	157
10764773300	voracious	greedy, immoderate, insatiable	158
10764773301	tedium	boredom, ennui, dullness	159
10764773302	incite	provoke, arouse, goad	160
10764773303	insular	detached, isolated, having a narrow point of view	161
10764773304	intrepid	fearless, dauntless, fortitude	162
10764773305	manumission	freeing, release from slavery	163
10764773306	moribund	dying, stagnant, on the verge of extinction	164
10764773307	nescient	ignorant, agnostic, lack of knowledge	165
10764773308	obfuscate	confuse, cloud, make obscure	166
10764773309	placebo	substance having no pharmaceutical effect	167
10764773310	proliferation	excessive rapid spread	168
10764773311	pusillanimous	cowardly in spirit, fearful	169
10764773312	recondite	deep, difficult, profound, little known	170
10764773313	sanctimonious	hypocritical show of piety or righteousness	171
10764773314	similitude	likeness, resemblance, comparison	172
10764773315	soporific	of or about sleep, drowsy	173
10764773316	supine	inactive, passive, lying on the back	174
10764773317	tactile	tangible, perceptible to the touch	175
10764773318	temporal	secular, transitory of this world, limited by time	176
10764773319	ungulate	hoof like, of or about horses	177
10764773320	vapid	insipid, spiritless, inane	178
10764773321	zenith	acme, highest point	179
10764773322	antipathy	aversion, habitual repugnance	180
10764773323	wane	diminish, abate, decrease	181
10764773324	encomium	eulogy, formal expression of high praise	182
10764773325	cacophonous	harsh, discordant, unpleasant	183
10764773326	ambivalent	having opposing feelings or desires	184
10764773327	puissant	powerful, potent, mighty	185
10764773328	bellicose	pugnacious, ready to fight	186
10764773329	amenable	agreeable, answerable	187
10764773330	cavil	harp, nitpick, raise minor objections	188
10764773331	commodious	spacious, roomy	189
10764773332	desultory	disconnected, random, lacking in order	190
10764773333	discreet	judicious, tactful, diplomatic	191
10764773334	emanate	emit, send forth, flow out	192
10764773335	didactic	too inclined to teach, preach, or lecture	193
10764773336	ephemeral	transitory, short-lived, fleeting	194
10764773337	feckless	feeble, ineffective, worthless	195
10764773338	heinous	hateful, odious, abominable	196
10764773339	piquant	pungent, spicy, provocative	197
10764773340	obstreperous	unruly, uncontrolled, vociferous, clamorous	198
10764773341	discrete	separate, distinct, detached from others	199