AP English Language Flashcards

14505220500	Aberration	something that differs from the norm	0
14505221048	Aesthetic	a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement	1
14505225591	Ambiguous	open to more than one interpretation	2
14505228154	Arbitrary	based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system	3
14505229554	Ambivilant	having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone	4
14505231252	Archaic	ancient; old-fashioned	5
14505237123	Ascribe	to assign or refer to (as a cause or source), attribute	6
14505232726	Artiface	a clever trick	7
14505238196	Astute	shrewd; clever	8
14505284440	Bourgeois	of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes	9
14505288790	Bureaucratic	overly concerned with procedure at the expense of efficiency or common sense	10
14505308125	Certitude	absolute certainty or conviction that something is the case	11
14505310242	Chastise	rebuke or reprimand severely	12
14505313103	Circumspect	wary and unwilling to take risks	13
14505315647	Colloquial	used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary	14
14505316495	Compunction	a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad	15
14505318285	Conciliatory	intended or likely to placate or pacify	16
14505320430	Condone	accept and allow (behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive) to continue	17
14505322213	Conjecture	an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information	18
14505327242	Contentious	causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial	19
14505329730	Contingent	subject to chance	20
14505331729	Contrived	deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously	21
14653494296	Convoluted	intricate and complicated	22
14653495902	Declamatory	impassioned in expression	23
14653533254	Decry	to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate	24
14653535497	Didactic	instructive	25
14653675883	Digression	a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing	26
14653677521	Discursive	rambling	27
14653685149	Disillusion	to disappoint someone by breaking his or her belief in a false ideal	28
14653689304	Disparage	belittle	29
14653689940	Disparate	fundamentally different; entirely unlike	30
14653691474	Disseminate	to scatter or spread widely	31
14653692622	Dogmatic	stubbornly opinionated	32
14653694426	Effusive	emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative	33
14653695317	Elicit	to draw forth, bring out from some source	34
14653696403	Emphatic	forcibly expressive	35
14653697986	Empirical	based on observation or experiment	36
14653707160	Engenders	to produce or give rise to	37
14653718399	Ephemeral	short-lived	38
14653718945	Equanimity	calmness, composure, refusal to panic	39
14653720491	Euphemism	an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive	40
14653721666	Fastidious	difficult to please	41
14653722957	Genial	friendly and cheerful	42
14653729312	Heuristic	a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms	43
14653735198	Idiosyncratic	peculiar to one person; highly individualized	44
14653736584	Impetuous	impulsive	45
14653737276	Ingratiate	to gain favor by flattery or false friendliness	46
14653739725	Innate	existing from birth, inborn	47
14653740630	Innocous	harmless	48
14653741502	Inscrutable	impossible to understand or interpret	49
14653743483	Insuler	limited in knowledge or power	50
14653745951	Introspective	contemplating one's own thoughts and feelings	51
14653747856	Laudatory	expressing praise	52
14653748565	Magnanimous	generous in forgiving, above small meanness	53
14653749442	Morose	gloomy	54
14653751283	Negations	a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement or a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false.	55
14653753448	Nomenclature	a system of naming, especially in the arts or sciences	56
14653755283	Obsolete	out-of-date, no longer in use	57
14653756180	Omnipotent	almighty, having unlimited power or authority	58
14653757217	Paucity	scarcity	59
14653758832	Pedantic	excessively concerned with book learning and formal rules	60
14653761760	Polemical	causing debate or argument	61
14653764748	Pragmatic	practical, as opposed to idealistic	62
14653767608	Propagate	to multiply, spread out	63
14653768711	Propriety	the quality of behaving in a proper manner; obeying rules and customs	64
14653769580	Prowess	superior skill or ability	65
14653771491	Restitution	payment for an injury; compensation	66
14653772711	Sardonic	grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic	67
14653773888	Self-effacing	not drawing attention to oneself; modest	68
14653774382	Staccato	detached or disconnected in sound or style	69
14653777559	Strident	loud and harsh	70
14653778149	Substantive	having substance; real; essential; solid; substantial	71
14653780333	Superficial	near the surface	72
14653942408	Taxanomy	the scientific study of how living things are classified	73
14653983138	Transgression	a violation of a law, command, or duty	74
14653984620	Undermined	damaged; attacked	75
14653984621	Underscore	to emphasize	76
14654377151	Unpretentious	modest	77
14654377966	Unrequited	not reciprocal; not given in payment or returned in kind	78
14654378702	Veracity	truthfulness	79
14654379312	Verbosity	using too many words	80
14654380034	Allegory	A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions	81
14654381012	Allusion	a reference to another work of literature, person, or event	82
14654382058	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage	83
14654382521	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	84
14654384029	Antecedent	he word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	85
14654384755	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	86
14654385279	Aphorism	a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life	87
14654386123	Concession	a reluctant acknowledgment or yielding	88
14654387894	Dangling Participle	a participle intended to modify a noun that is not actually present in the text	89
14654388754	Decorum	proper behavior	90
14654390416	Enumeration	listing items in order	91
14654393093	Homily	This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice	92
14654395125	Inductive	a form of logical argumentation that requires the use of examples	93
14654396477	Interrogotive	question	94
14654397255	Metonymy	a figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	95
14654397949	Oxymoron	conjoining contradictory terms	96
14654399354	Paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true	97
14654401328	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	98
14654401970	Refute	disprove	99
14654403733	Rhetorical Modes	exposition, description, narration, argumentation	100
14654404477	Syllogism	a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion	101
14654406100	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	102
14654407018	Theorem	a statement that can be proven	103
14654407833	Heresay	an opinion different from accepted belief	104
14654408511	Ethos	ethical appeal	105
14654410033	Pathos	appeal to emotion	106
14654410893	Logos	appeal to logic	107