Ap Vocab Flashcards

14553999006	abstract	difficult to understand	0
14553999857	ad hominem	attacking the person not the arguement	1
14554003093	Aphorism	a concise statement of a truth or principle	2
14554004675	anecdote	a terse story about a real incident or person	3
14554008801	Artifice	deception; trickery	4
14554009651	astute	shrewd; clever	5
14554012627	compunction	remorse, regret when u do something bad	6
14554020611	contentious	quarrelsome	7
14554054005	dangling participle	To correct a ____, place the participial closer to the word it modifies; example: (incorrect: PLAYING SOLITAIRE, at the table sat a bored young man. / correct: At the table sat a bored young man PLAYING SOLITAIRE.)	8
14554058287	deferential	showing respect	9
14554063179	dichotomy	a split into two parts	10
14554065108	didactic	intended to instruct	11
14554076491	Discursive	bounding off from one subject to another away from the topic	12
14554077521	Disparage	belittle	13
14554078581	disparate	Different/unequal	14
14554082920	disseminate	to spread	15
14554086606	effusive	Gushing a lot	16
14554104421	Ellipsis	three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation or to leave out words but still have the same meaning	17
14554106690	emphatic	to emphasize/stress importance	18
14554112088	Enumeration	listing items in order	19
14554248253	equivocal	ambiguous	20
14554248803	erudite	(adj.) scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic	21
14554249991	Ethos	beliefs or character of a group	22
14556858999	exemplify	to make an example out of	23
14556860274	Exhort	to urge strongly	24
14556862683	exalt	to glorify	25
14556864938	fastidious	Difficult to please	26
14556865726	fallacy	bad reasoning under a mistaken belief	27
14556877286	genial	friendly and cheerful	28
14557403142	harpsichord	piano	29
14557406671	Heresay	rumor	30
14557407543	Heuristic	an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving by experimental and especially trial-and-error methods	31
14557411694	Homily/Sermon	a short and religious speech in public by the clergy as a part of a worship	32
14683015732	idiosyncratic	Peculiar to one person; highly individualized	33
14683021742	impressionistic	based on personal response	34
14683027668	indiscretion	behaviour lacking wisdom or good judgment	35
14683035999	Inductive	Opposite of deductive by adding inferences	36
14683043334	infraction	violation	37
14683048806	ingratiate	gain favor or by deliberate effort/ position yourself in a certain place	38
14683053007	innate	inborn; natural	39
14683057766	innocuous	harmless	40
14683082795	Inscrutable	difficult to understand	41
14683085112	insular	isolated	42
14683087026	Introspective	Self reflection	43
14683089584	Jaded	worn out	44
14683090802	Jargon	gibberish	45
14683093956	loaded diction	Words and/or phrases intended to inspire emotion in the audience	46
14683095417	Logos	logic/divine wisdom	47
14683102828	Meritocracy	Class based on academic achievement	48
14683115115	Metonymy	when the name of one thing is used in place of another related to it EX: "The White House" for "The President"	49
14683121473	Opaqueness	dullness/not allowing light to pass through	50
14683124916	orthodox	traditional way of doing stuff	51
14683127971	Paucity	scarcity	52
14683129152	Pathos	Appeal to emotions like pity	53
14683132156	Pedantic	tending to show off one's learning	54
14683133406	Pious	devoutly religious	55
14683135682	Polemical	causing debate or argument	56
14683137771	Pragmatic	practical	57
14683140615	Propagate	reproduce	58
14683155573	Propriety	politeness	59
14683157632	Prose	the ordinary form of written language	60
14683164531	Restitution	Restoration	61
14683168796	Rhetorical Modes	exposition, description, narration, argumentation	62
14683173256	self-effacing	modest	63
14683176535	Staccato	detached	64
14683178657	Strident	loud and harsh	65
14683181988	Subjective	based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions	66
14683186654	Syllogism	three-part deduction a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable")	67
14683197415	Synecdoche	Synecdoche - a figure of speech by which a part Representing the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (such as society for high society)	68
14683210552	Taxonomy	The scientific study of how living things are classified	69
14683213979	Treatise	systematic argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached	70
14683217254	Unadorned	plain	71
14683220143	Veracity	truthfulness	72
14683221930	Verbosity	using too many words	73
14683225008	Unpretentious	modest	74