AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

13491649597	penitent	(adj.) regretful for one's sins or mistakes. (n.) one who is sorry for wrongdoing	0
13491649598	stymie	to block; to thwart	1
13491649599	sumptuous	costly, rich, magnificent	2
13491649600	symbiotic	mutually beneficial; supporting one another's life	3
13491649601	taciturn	(adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little	4
13491649602	truculence	aggressiveness, ferocity	5
13491649603	venerable	respected because of age	6
13491649604	poignant	(adj.) deeply affecting, touching; keen or sharp in taste or smell	7
13491649605	zealous	enthusiastic	8
13491649606	abhorrent	Very repugnant; hateful.	9
13491649607	ebullient	enthusiastic	10
13491649608	reticent	not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily	11
13491649609	didactic	instructive	12
13491649610	haughty	arrogant	13
13491649611	ardent	very enthusiastic, impassioned	14
13491649612	blithe	cheerful, lighthearted; casual, unconcerned	15
13491649613	boorish	ill-mannered	16
13491649614	choleric	easily angered	17
13491649615	effusive	emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative	18
13491649616	elegiac	Expressing sorrow or lamentation	19
13491649617	Exculpatory	clearing of guilt or blame	20
13491649618	Foppish	vain about dress and appearance; N. fop: man who takes too much interest in his clothes and appearance	21
13491649619	Jocund	cheerful and lighthearted	22
13491649620	Mirth	gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter	23
13491649621	nonplussed	perplexed	24
13491649622	Terse	brief and to the point	25
13491649623	Dogmatic	arrogant and stubborn about one's beliefs	26
13491649624	Churlish	(adj.) lacking politeness or good manners; lacking sensitivity; difficult to work with or deal with; rude	27
13491649625	Macaronic	composed of a mixture of languages	28
13491649626	Bemused	confused; bewildered	29
13491649627	Cynical	doubtful or distrustful of the goodness or sincerity of human motives	30
13491649628	Melodramatic	overly emotional	31
13491649629	Ambivalence	the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes	32
13491649630	Veritable	(adj.) actual, true, real	33
13491649631	Solemnity	seriousness	34
13491649632	circumlocution	talking in circles	35
13491649633	capricious	subject to whims or passing fancies	36
13491649634	conciliatory	intended or likely to placate or pacify	37
13491649635	strident	loud and harsh	38
13491649636	pedantic	tending to show off one's learning	39
13491649637	pretentious	pompous, self-important	40
13491649638	inexorable	impossible to stop or prevent	41
13491649639	impotunate	Extremely demanding; insistent	42
13491649640	aloof	not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant	43
13491649641	acerbic	bitter, sharp in taste or temper	44
13491649642	abject	Lowly, miserable and wretched	45
13491649643	affable	(adj.) courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to	46
13491649644	antediluvian	extremely old; antiquated	47
13491649645	apathy	a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest	48
13491649646	banal	common, ordinary	49
13491649647	timorous	Fearful, timid	50
13491649648	bucolic	(adj.) characteristic of the countryside, rural; relating to shepherds and cowherds, pastoral	51
13491649649	burgeoning	begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish	52
13491649650	callous	emotionally hardened, unfeeling	53
13491649651	chagrin	embarrassment; a complete loss of courage	54
13491649652	chicanery	trickery; deception	55
13491649653	coalesce	to come together	56
13491649654	congenial	(adj.) getting on well with others; agreeable, pleasant	57
13491649655	credence	belief, mental acceptance	58
13491649656	derelict	abandoned, run-down	59
13491649657	disingenuous	not straightforward; crafty	60
13491649658	dubious	hesitating or doubting	61
13491649659	eloquent	persuasive and moving, especially in speech	62
13491649660	enigmatic	(adj.) puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood	63
13491649661	ephemeral	lasting a very short time	64
13491649662	euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	65
13491649663	foible	(n.) a weak point, failing, minor flaw	66
13491649664	furtive	secret, stealthy	67
13491649665	germane	(adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting	68
13491649666	glib	(adj.) ready and fluent in speech; thoughtless, insincere	69
13491649667	discursive	(adj.) passing aimlessly from one place or subject to another, rambling, roving, nomadic	70
13491649668	incorrigible	not able to be corrected; beyond control	71
13491649669	impudent	not showing due respect for another person; impertinent	72
13491649670	irascible	easily angered, irritable	73
13491649671	jocular	humorous, jesting, jolly, joking	74
13491649672	obdurate	stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action	75
13491649673	languid	(adj.) drooping; without energy, sluggish	76
13491649674	lax	careless or negligent	77
13491649675	lugubrious	looking or sounding sad and dismal	78
13491649676	magnanimous	generous in forgiving, above small meanness	79
13491649677	maladroit	clumsy; unskillful	80
13491649678	mellifluous	sweetly flowing	81
13491649679	mercurial	quick, shrewd, and unpredictable	82
13491649680	Mundane	ordinary	83
13491649681	Nefarious	(adj.) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards	84
13491649682	obtuse	lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression	85
13491649683	negligible	so unimportant that it can be disregarded	86
13491649684	onerous	burdensome	87
13491649685	panacea	a remedy for all ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems	88
13491649686	perfunctory	done without care; in a routine fashion	89
13491649687	sagacious	wise	90
13491649688	Placate	to appease, soothe, pacify	91
13491649689	probity	honesty	92
13491649690	puerile	childish	93
13491649691	Quagmire	a difficult situation	94
13491649692	quixotic	overly idealistic; impractical	95
13491649693	recalcitrant	stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority	96
13491649694	Ribaldry	vulgar or indecent language	97
13491649695	sardonic	grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic	98
13491649696	circumspect	careful, cautious	99