AP Literature Flashcards

12553032810	accusatory	charging of wrong doing	0
12553032811	apathetic	indifferent due to lack of energy or concern	1
12553032812	Awe	Solemn Wonder	2
12553032813	Bitter	Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief	3
12553032814	Cynical	Questioning the basic sincerity and goodness of people	4
12553032815	Condescension	A feeling of superiority	5
12553032816	Callous	Unfeeling, Insensitive to feeling of others	6
12553032817	Contemplative	Studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue	7
12553032818	Critical	Finding fault	8
12553032819	Choleric	Hot-headed, easily angered	9
12553032820	Contemptuous	Showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect	10
12553032821	Caustic	Intense use of sarcasm, stinging, biting	11
12553032822	Conventional	Lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality	12
12553032823	Disdainful	Scornful	13
12553032824	Didactic	Author attempts to educate or guide the reader	14
12553032825	Derisive	Ridicule, mocking	15
12553032826	Earnest	Intense, a sincere state of mind	16
12553032827	Erudite	Learned, polished, scholarly	17
12553032828	Fanciful	Using the imagination	18
12553032829	Forthright	Directly frank without hesitation	19
12553032830	Gloomy	Darkness, sadness, rejection	20
12553032831	Haughty	Proud and vain to the point of arrogance	21
12553032832	Indignant	Marked by anger aroused by injustice	22
12553032833	Intimate	Very familiar	23
12553032834	Judgemental	Authoritative and often having critical opinions	24
12553032835	Jovial	Happy	25
12553032836	Lyrical	Expressing a poet's inner feelings, emotional, full of images, song-like	26
12553032837	Matter-of-fact	Accepting of conditions, not fanciful or emotional	27
12553032838	Mocking	Treating with contempt or ridicule	28
12553032839	Morose	Gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent	29
12553032840	Malicious	Purposely hurtful	30
12553032841	Objective	An unbiased view-able to leave personal judgements aside	31
12553032842	Optimistic	Hopeful cheerful	32
12553032843	Obsequious	Polite and obedient in order to gain something	33
12553032844	Patronizing	Air of condescension	34
12553032845	Pessimistic	Seeing the worst side of things; no hopes	35
12553032846	Quizzical	Odd, eccentric, amusing	36
12553032847	Ribald	Offensive in speech or language	37
12553032848	Reverent	Treating a subject with honor and respect	38
12553032849	Ridiculing	Slightly contemptuous banter, making fun of	39
12553032850	Reflective	Illustrating enormous thoughts and emotions	40
12553032851	Sardonic	Scornfully and bitterly sarcastic	41
12553032852	Satiric	Ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point	42
12553032853	Sincere	Without deceit or pretense, genuine	43
12553032854	Solemn	Deeply earnest, tending towards sad reflection	44
12553032855	Sanguineous	Optimistic, cheerful	45
12553032856	Whimsical	Odd, strange, fantastic, fun	46