AP Literature Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards

14841393532	Acquisitive	(adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property	0
14841393533	Arrogate	(v.) to claim or take without right	1
14841393534	Banal	(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace	2
14841393535	Belabor	(v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly	3
14841393536	Carping	(adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism	4
14841393537	Coherent	(adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful	5
14841393538	Congeal	(v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid	6
14841393539	Emulate	(v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model	7
14841393540	Encomium	(n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute	8
14841393541	Eschew	(v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from	9
14841393542	Germane	(adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting	10
14841393543	Insatiable	(adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied	11
14841393544	Intransigent	(adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable	12
14841393545	Invidious	(adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment	13
14841393546	Largesse	(n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions	14
14841393547	Reconnaissance	(n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination	15
14841393548	Substantiate	(v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to	16
14841393549	Taciturn	(adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little	17
14841393550	Temporize	(v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise	18
14841393551	Tenable	(adj.) capable of being held or defended	19