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Multiplechoice Vocab
11 AP
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| imagistic | modern era writers used concrete images in an effort to admonish the flowery and figurative language of writers in the Romantic and Victorian eras |
| ad hominen | to the man |
| mysticism | spiritual philosophy involving deep trancelike meditation to form a closer connection to God |
| vaporous | barely visible; gas like matter |
| benightedness | darkness |
| mysandrogynistic | against either sex |
| amalgam | various alloys, metals, or combinations of diverse elements |
| hedonism | devoted to pleasure |
| nonplussed | state of confusion |
| discombobulated | confused |
| acerbic | sharp; bitter temperament |
| avaricious | greedy for wealth |
| epigraphs | motto at the beginning of a literary composition |
| epigrams | witty, short poem expressing an opinion or thought mainly found at the beginning of a literary composition |
| epitaphs | something inscribed on a grave marker |
| participial phrases | verbs inding in "-ing" or "-ed" |
| bestial | qualities or manners associated with animals |
| preponderance | great quantity |
| ubiquitous | widespread |
| innocuous | insignificant |
| extraneous | irrelevant |
| pragmatic | practical |
| veneration | respect, reverance |
| discomfiting | to make uneasy |
| macabre | gruesome |
| lionized | treated as a celebrity |
| cataclysmic | violent upheaval |
| ossuaire | vaults that hold bodies |
| Pyrrhic | a victory offset by huge losses derived from the victory of Pyrrhus over the Romans |
| precocious | early mental maturity |
| pompous | exxagerated |
| stoic | seeming indifference |
| supercilious | haughty |
| incorrigible | unable to be reformed |
| blackguard | to abuse verbally |
| pugnacity | eagerness to fight |
| pugilistic | fist fighting |
| danse macabre | boxing/ fist fighting |
| ignominious | shameful |
| incongruous | illogical |
| misogyny | act of hating women |
| brutish | animalistic |
| anomalous | abnormal |
| leonine | characteristic of a lion |
| corpulent | obese |
| exacerbate | increase |
| epoch | noteworthy period in history |
| obfuscation | confusion |
| provocation | anger |
| indignation | anger from something unjust or unfair |
| preponderance | superiority |
| abiguity | uncertainty |
| derides | laughs at |
| euphemism | substituting an offensive term for an offensive one |
| derisive | mocking |
| acerbic | bitter |
| abashed | ashamed |
| admonition | warning |
| indolent | lazy |
| enervating | weakening |
| analogous | similar |
| laudatory | praise |
| vituperative | harshly abusive |
| vilification | defame |
| halcyon | golden prosperous |
| covert | concealed |
| potentate | monarch or powerful rule |
| unctuous | exaggerated honesty |
| veneration | profound respect |
| intaglio | figure or design carved beneath a surface |
| stalwartness | strength, robustness, resolute |
| dimunition | reduction |
| impassivity | devoid of emotion |
| byzantine | scheming |
| totemic | clamlike |
| diatribe | bitter abuse, criticism |
| panegyric | elaborate praise |
| objective correlative | external equivalent of an internal monologue/ imagistic |
| alacrity | speed |
| mendacity | falsehood, untruthfulness |
| duplicitous | deliberate deceptiveness |
| incorrigible | incapable of being covered or reformed |
| pragmatic | practical |
| agrarian | agriculture |
| reverie | daydreaming |
| debased | to lower in quantity |
| deprecating | mocking oneself |
| chagrin | humiliation |
| singlet | jersey undershirt |
| tawdry | vulgar, guady |
| obdurate | hardhearted, wickedness |
| sanguine | color of blood |
| alms | money collected for the poor |
| ingatiating | making an effort to get in another person's good grades |
| corpulent | fat |
| sloth | laziness |
| diatribe | bitter criticism |
| ad hominem | to the man |
| parenthetical commentary | classifying or explanatory |
| soporific | inducing sleep |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| exemplars | examples |
| coquettishness | flirty |
| eulogy | speech at funeral |
| paean | jubilant song |
| ebullient | humbling |
| conciliatory | consistent |
| staunch | steadfast |
| disputatious | formal debate |
| derision | mocking |
| incredulity | disbelief |
| censorious | censoring |
| pensive | deep melancholy thought |
| resonant | intense vocal sounds that vibrate |
| sonorous | deep, rich sounds |
| capaciousness | large amount |
| joie de vivre | carefree enjoyment of life |
| stream-of-consciousness | continuous flow of sensory perceptions |
| ascetic | a person who gives up the conforts of life |
| existential | philosophy on man's freedom to make choices and accept consequences of choices |
| surrealistic | literary movement that tends to explain the subconscious through fantastic imagery juxtaposed with fact |
| serendipitous | making fortunate or unexpected discoveries by accident |
| a polemical | controvery over doctrine or opinion |
| endocrinoligist | a doctor who studies the ductless glands (endocrine gland, pancreas, hair) |
| hirstute | hairy |
| analogous | similar or alike in a way that froms an analogy |
| vacuity | emptiness |
| asceticism | a person who denounces the comforts of life |
| husbandry | study of breeding or raising livestock |
| derisive | bitter |
| quixotic | idealistic without regard to practicality |
| hypaethral | roofless |
| erudition | deep and extensive learning |
| stasis | motionless |
| refutation | to disagree or prove false |
| qualms | doubt or misgivings |
| imperatives | commands |
| excoriating | denounce or censure strongly |
| extraneous | non-essential |
| pragmatist | someone who is practical |
| dilettante | someone who has an amateur interest in the arts |
| philatelist | stamp collector |
| droll | amusing or comical |
| denotatively | to serve as a symbol for something (a cross) |
| connotatively | a secondary meaning |
| acerbic | bitter |
| derisive | mocking |
| egregious | outstandingly bad |
| incorrigible | incapable of being reformed |
| rectitude | moral righteousness |
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