AP Vocab Flashcards

11206421570	aberration	a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome	0
11206421571	Abeyance	temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension	1
11206421572	Acerbic	biting, bitter in tone or taste	2
11206421573	acuity	(n.) sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses)	3
11206421574	admonish	to warn	4
11206421575	adroit	skillful; clever	5
11206421576	Aesthete	One who loves beauty in art or nature	6
11206421577	altruistic	unselfish	7
11206421578	ameliorate	to make better	8
11206421579	amorphous	shapeless	9
11206421580	antediluvian	extremely old; antiquated	10
11206421581	apocryphal	made up	11
11206421582	arable	suitable for growing crops	12
11206421583	ascetic	absent of luxury	13
11206421584	assuage	make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense	14
11206421585	atrophy	(n.) the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v.) to waste away	15
11206421586	aviary	A house, enclosure, or large cage for birds	16
11206421587	avarice	greed	17
11206421588	avow	to confess	18
11206421589	bilk	to cheat	19
11206421590	broach	to bring up a subject for discussion	20
11206421591	buttress	to support	21
11206421592	celerity	swiftness	22
11206421593	charlatan	fraud	23
11206421594	cherubic	having the childlike innocence	24
11206421595	chrulish	rude	25
11206421596	circuitous	indirect	26
11206421597	clandestine	(adj.) secret, concealed; underhanded	27
11206421598	commensurate	proportional	28
11206421599	concomitant	accompanying	29
11206421600	confluence	(n.) - a convergence, a coming together	30
11206421601	conjugal	relating to marriage	31
11206421602	contentious	argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement	32
11206421603	conundrum	a difficult problem	33
11206421604	corpulence	state of being very fat	34
11206421605	Corterie	a circle of close associates or friends	35
11206421606	credulous	too trusting; gullible	36
11206421607	cryptic	mysterious, supernatural related	37
11206421608	dearth	a lack, scarcity	38
11206421609	demagogue	a leader who appeals to citizens' emotions to obtain power	39
11206421610	desecrate	to violate the sacredness of a thing or place	40
11206421611	diatribe	a bitter verbal attack	41
11206421612	diffidence	shyness; lack of confidence	42
11206421613	dilatory	tending to delay or procrastinate	43
11206421614	disaffected	having lost faith or loyalty; discontent	44
11206421615	discursive	rambling	45
11206421616	dissemble	to disguise, to pretend	46
11206421617	dissonant	not in harmony; disagreeing, at odds	47
11206421618	dissuade	to persuade not to do something	48
11206421619	divination	the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means	49
11206421620	dotard	foolish old man	50
11206421621	duplicity	treachery, deceitfulness	51
11206421622	egregious	outstandingly bad	52
11217048892	elegiac	Expressing sorrow or lamentation	53
11217048893	elucidate	to clarify, explain	54
11217048894	emanate	to come forth; to send forth	55
11217094642	dispassionate	unemotional	56
11300761192	emulate	to imitate	57
11300761193	enigmatic	(adj.) puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood	58
11320581689	ennui	boredom, dissatisfaction	59
11338080613	ephemeral	lasting a very short time	60
11521214790	equivocate	to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead	61
11521214791	erudition	the quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship	62
11521214792	esoteric	(adj.) intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret	63
11521214793	espouse	adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life); marry	64
11521214794	ethereal	extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world	65
11521214795	extol	to praise highly	66
11570586830	fatuous	silly and pointless	67
11655191492	felicity	happiness; bliss	68
11668511617	fetid	smelling extremely unpleasant	69
11708321764	flippant	not showing a serious or respectful attitude	70
11709655840	florid	Excessively intricate and complicated	71
11776091214	foible	(n.) a weak point, failing, minor flaw	72
11776091215	furtive	done in a quiet and secret way to avoid being noticed	73
11776158832	garish	tastelessly showy	74
11779799052	curmudgeon	a bad-tempered person	75
11785224039	copious	abundant; plentiful	76
11785224040	disparage	belittle	77
11785224041	fecund	fertile; productive	78
11794482287	garner	To gather (especially for info or approval)	79
11794482288	guile	deceit; trickery	80
11794482289	hedonism	devotion to sexual pleasure	81
11794482290	heretic	someone who goes against accepted religious beliefs	82
11794542491	hiatus	a gap, opening, break	83
11812499464	histrionic	overly dramatic	84
11812499465	hoary	very old	85
11812499466	iconoclasm	the action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices.	86
11812499467	immutable	unchangeable	87
11812499468	impervious	impenetrable	88
11832515123	epicure	someone who appreciates good food and drink	89
12307348593	impregnable	unable to be captured or broken into	90
12307348594	impugn	(v.) to call into question; to attack as false	91
12307348595	inauspicious	Unlucky; not likely to be successful	92
12321438620	incipient	in an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop	93
12321438621	incisive	clear thinking	94
12334616252	incorrigible	not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed	95
12334616253	indecorous	lacking good taste; improper	96
12365242815	indefatigable	persisting tirelessly	97
12382626679	inocuous	not harmful or offensive	98
12382626680	inscrutable	impossible to understand or interpret	99
12399165710	insipid	lacking flavor; dull; not at all stimulating	100
12429010786	intonate	say or recite with little rise and fall of the pitch of the voice	101
12429010787	intractable	hard to control or deal with	102
12470414673	intrinsic	belonging naturally; essential	103
12486931126	inveigh	speak or write about (something) with great hostility	104
12486931127	inveterate	having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change	105
12606075349	irascible	easily angered	106
12606075350	jettison	to throw goods overboard to lighten the load on a boat or an airplane	107
12606075351	juncture	(n.) a joining together; the point at which two things are joined; any important point in time	108
12606075352	juxtapose	to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast	109
12606075353	laconic	using or involving the use of a minimum of words	110
12606075354	largess	generosity	111
12606075355	lassitude	lack of energy	112
12606075356	lethargy	lazy/sluggish	113
12653997406	lithe	(adj.) bending easily, limber	114
12653997407	lurid	very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect	115
12671151867	malevolent	wishing evil or harm to others	116
12671194336	maudlin	overly sentimental	117
12671234927	lampoon	a written satire used to ridicule or attack someone	118
12702515839	meander	(v.) to wander about, wind about; (n.) a sharp turn or twist	119
12924392986	maticulous	extremely careful; particular about details	120
13065399900	mire	(noun) swamp; muddy ground	121
13065399901	multifarious	(adj.) many types	122
13065399902	mundane	(adj.) lacking interest or excitement; dull	123
13065399903	obsequious	(adj.) compliant	124
13065447998	odious	(adj.)extremely unpleasant; repulsive	125
13065447999	opaque	(adj.) not able to be seen through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid	126
13095373419	nefarious	(adj.) (typically of an action or activity) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards	127
13095373420	ostentatious	(adj.) characterized by vulgar or pretentious display, showy	128
13095373421	paragon	(Noun) a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality	129
13095373422	pariah	(Noun) an outcast	130
13095373423	paucity	(n.) an inadequate quantity, scarcity, dearth	131
13095373424	pedantic	(Adj.) overly concerned with minute details or formalism	132
13125049098	palpable	(adj.) capable of being touched or felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized	133
13125049099	parochial	(Adj.) having a limited or narrow outlook or scope (religion based)	134
13125049100	pajorative	(Adj.) expressing contempt or disapproval	135
13125049101	philistine	(Noun) a person who is hostile or indifferent and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values	136
13125049102	pique	(Verb) stimulate (interest or curiosity)	137
13125049103	pithy	(Adj.) (of language or style) concise and forcefully expressive.	138
13125049104	poignant	(Adj.) keenly distressing to the mind or feelings	139
13125049105	polemical	(Adj.) relating to or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech	140
13142077920	proclivity	a natural or habitual inclination or tendency (especially of human character or behavior)	141
13142077921	progeny	(Noun) child; product	142
13158873316	precocious	(Adj.) having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual	143
13158873317	prolific	present in large numbers or quantities; plentiful	144
13158873318	prosiac	(Adj.) unimaginative; ordinary	145
13158873319	protract	(Verb) To prolong or delay	146
13158873320	pugnacity	(Adj.) inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative	147
13158873321	protean	(Adj.) able to change frequently or easily	148
13265484062	pulchritude	(n.) (adj.) physical beauty	149
13417424584	rancorous	(Adj) bitter, hateful	150
13417424585	quixotic	(Adj) overly idealistic; impractical	151
13434040818	rarefy	(Verb) to make rare, thin, or less dense	152
13434040819	raze	(Verb) to completely destroy	153
13449806598	recalcitrant	(Adj) having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline	154
13449806599	recant	(Noun) retract a statement or opinion, usually under pressure	155
13462867564	reprobate	(Verb, noun) to condemn strongly as unworthy, unacceptable, or evil	156
13462867565	ruminate	(Verb) think deeply about something	157
13493503276	saccharine	(Adj) excessively sweet or sentimental; sugary	158
13544140157	savant	(Noun) a learned person	159
13544140158	stultify	(Verb) to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous	160
13544140159	supercilious	(Adj) behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others	161
13544140160	surfeit	(Noun) an excessive amount of something	162
13586148676	surly	(adj.) angry and bad-tempered; rude	163
13586148677	taciturn	(adj.) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little	164
13586148678	tantamount	(adj.) equivalent, having the same meaning, value, or effect	165
13586148679	tenuous	(adj.) Thin in form, unsubstantial reasoning, or lacking in clarity	166
13586148680	trepidation	(Noun) a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen	167
13617467072	turgid	(adj.) arrogant like	168
13617467073	turpitude	(Noun) wickedness	169
13617467074	undulate	(Verb) to move up and down in a smooth motion	170
13617467075	unwieldy	(adj.) difficult to carry or move	171
13630398970	veracity	(Noun) conformity to facts; accuracy	172
13630398971	verbose	(Adj.) using or expressed in more words than are needed	173
13630398972	viable	(Adj.) capable of working successfully; feasible, capable of living	174
13630398973	virulent	(Adj.) extremely severe or harmful in its effects, very powerful	175
13630398974	vociferous	(Adj.) loud and noisy; compelling attention	176
13630398975	vouchsafe	(Verb) give or grant (something) to (someone) in a gracious or condescending manner	177
13630398976	zenith	the time at which something is most powerful or successful	178
13696988673	ribald	(adj.) irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language	179