AP Literature List 8 Flashcards
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| 11464704355 | acquiesce | (verb) to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent | 0 | |
| 11464714305 | amity | (noun) friendship; peaceful harmony. | 1 | |
| 11464732220 | arduous | (adjective) requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult | 2 | |
| 11464737951 | gestalt | (noun) a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole. | 3 | |
| 11464837248 | inundate | (verb) to flood; cover or overspread with water; deluge. | 4 | |
| 11464847252 | perjury | (noun) the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry. | 5 | |
| 11464856196 | perspicuity | (noun) clearness or lucidity, as of a statement. | 6 | |
| 11464860778 | preposterous | (adjective) completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless; utterly foolish | 7 | |
| 11464876557 | trepidation | (noun) tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation. | 8 | |
| 11464876558 | voluble | (adjective) characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative | 9 | |
| 11464888012 | asyndeton | a writing style where conjunctions are omitted in a series of words, phrases or clauses. | 10 |