AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

14381686878	affluent	having a great deal of money; wealthy	0
14381689822	elicit	envoke or draw out (a response, answer, or fact) from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions	1
14381701869	solace	comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness	2
14381701870	retrospect	a survey or review of past times or events	3
14381703384	cursory	hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed	4
14381703385	skittish	extremely nervous and easily frightened; shy or timid; extremely cautious; unstable, undependable	5
14381703855	congenial	pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or interests that are similar to one's own	6
14417988226	supplant	to take the place of	7
14417989238	garish	tastelessly gaudy	8
14417993170	futility	uselessness	9
14417995571	pretext	a false reason, deceptive excuse	10
14417996316	incessant	never stopping, going on all the time	11
14418001166	undulate	to move in waves or with a wavelike motion	12
14418002173	indelible	cannot be removed, washed away or erased	13
14418003163	petulant	peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset	14
14418005295	languid	lacking energy; weak	15
14456668677	plausible	can be believed; reasonable	16
14456669241	inherent	firmly established by nature or habit	17
14456669701	constitute	to make up the parts of; to compose	18
14456669983	conciliatory	appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile	19
14456671520	baffle	bewilder; perplex; fill with confusion; puzzle; frustrate	20
14456671860	aspire	seek to attain; long for	21
14456672147	proprietary	of or relating to an owner or ownership	22
14456672148	frankness	the act of speaking plainly and truthfully regardless of others' opinions	23
14456672611	niche	full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions	24
14456673193	sporadic	occurring irregularly	25
14456673746	bohemian	unconventional; not bound by the rules of society	26
14456673747	qualm	a feeling of uneasiness	27
14456673748	deduce	to draw a conclusion from given facts	28
14456674337	boon	a gift or blessing	29
14456674338	dissipate	disperse or scatter	30
14456675015	novice	a beginner; one who is inexperienced	31
14456675016	intrinsic	belonging to a thing by its very nature	32
14456676581	contingency	a future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty	33
14456677011	commodity	a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee.	34
14456677474	amorphous	shapeless, formless, vague	35
14456677915	transience	forgetting what occurs with the passage of time	36
14456678766	rectitude	moral uprightness; righteousness	37
14456679888	stupendous	extremely impressive	38
14456679889	meticulously	very carefully and precisely	39
14456680495	cavalier	given to haughty disregard of others	40
14456681205	swath	a broad strip or area of something	41
14456681206	ramble	to talk on and on pointlessly, without clear direction	42
14456681680	monogramy	marriage with one mate at a time	43
14456682553	chauvinism	unreasoning and boastful devotion to one's country or sex	44
14456683288	venerable	respected because of age	45
14456683289	maxim	a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying	46
14456684524	progenitor	a direct ancestor	47
14456684930	importune	to ask persistently; to beg	48
14456685783	rudiments	the parts of any subject or discipline that are learned first; the earliest stages of anything	49
14456685784	discourse	written or spoken communication or debate	50
14456686151	deference	to respect	51
14456686711	digress	to stray from the main subject	52
14456687039	prudent	acting with or showing care and thought for the future	53
14456687040	brevity	briefness; short duration	54
14456687725	expedient	a means to an end	55