AP Language August Vocab Flashcards

14600503886	Acquiesce	accept something reluctantly but without protest	0
14600508588	Acronym	an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word	1
14600515295	Ambiguity	the quality of being open to more than one interpretation	2
14600524273	Analogy	a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.	3
14600530024	Anachronism	a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.	4
14600531757	Innate	inborn; natural	5
14600532608	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	6
14600534193	Antonym	a word opposite in meaning to another	7
14600535906	Articulate	having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently	8
14600542709	Assonance	in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible	9
14600548017	Erudite	having or showing great knowledge or learning	10
14600549917	Denotation	the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.	11
14600552506	Circumspect	wary and unwilling to take risks	12
14600553407	Clandestine	kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit	13
14600554431	Cognition	the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.	14
14600560246	Collaborate	work jointly on an activity, especially to produce or create something.	15
14600564630	Colloquial	used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary	16
14600566928	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	17
14600569038	Contrived	deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously	18
14600570204	Connundrum	a confusing and difficult problem or question	19