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Baker's vocab 7-10
12 AP vocab lists 7-10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| antediluvian | before the flood, meaning literally before Noah and the ark, but used to mean very old and outdated |
| Bacchanalian | resembling a wild orgy such as Bacchus (from mythology) used to hold |
| Brobdingnagian | very large, as in the country of Brobdingnag in which the people were twelve times the size of Gulliver |
| carpe diem | seize the day, a philosophy of living with energy, fulfilling dreams by taking risks |
| Daedelus and Icarus | a father and son from Greek mythology, captive in the labyrinth. Daedelus makes wings of wax, warns Icarus not to fly too close to the sun, but Icarus forgets and melts his wings, falls into the ocean, and drowns |
| Galahad | the noble, courteous knight of the Round Table who seeks and finds the Holy Grail |
| Gorgon/Medusa | Gorgons were mythical monstrous women with snakes for hair, one look at whom would turn the viewer to stone. Theseus slew one Gorgon named Medusa by looking at her reflection in his shield rather than looking at her |
| Jove | another name for the Roman god Jupiter |
| Midas | mythical king who was given the golden touch |
| muse | in mythology, the gods responsible for inspiring the arts, often invoked at the beginning of an artistic work |
| Pandora | in Greek mythology, the first woman, created by Zeus to punish mankind for Prometheus' theft of fire. She opens the forbidden box, releasing all the evils on mankind. |
| Prometheus | Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man, often seen as a champion of human effort and technology against the divine order. He is punished by having his liver eaten out daily by birds. |
| Sisyphus | the mythological king punished for tricking the gods by having to roll and huge stone up a hill, only to have it roll back down again repeatedly. He has come to stand for futile endeavor. |
| the boatman/Charon | the mythological boatman on the River Acheron (in some stories, the River Styx), transporting the dead across the river to the land of the dead. Traditionally people laid coins on the eyes of the dead to pay the boatman. |
| adulation | excessive admiration, almost to the point of worshiping an object that is not divine |
| angst | a general feeling of anxiety, an overwhelming sense of dread |
| aversion | long-standing dislike, a sense of repugnance or desire to turn away from something |
| bathos | insincere or overdone pathos, sentimentalism |
| caustic | bitingly hurtful or corrosive, having the effect of a strong chemical poured on something |
| choler | anger |
| cynical/cynicism | exhibiting a distrust of the motives or of any appearance of goodness/ the settled disposition of showing distrust of motives or of goodness |
| diatribe | a bitter or abusive speech or written work |
| didactic | intended to convey instruction or information in addition to any pleasure or enjoyment that might also be provided (often used of written works) |
| disdain | scorn, contempt, a sense of the worthlessness of something |
| enervation | the condition of having no energy |
| foreboding | a sense of impending doom |
| frivolous | having no serious purpose |
| invective | (adjective or noun) expressing abuse or insult |
| irony | a discrepancy between what is said and what is intended to be understood |
| irreverent | lacking proper respect toward something sacred or honorable |
| jeremiad | a long lamentation or complaint or an angry speech |
| menacing | threatening, as in appearance |
| mirthful | showing gladness by laughter |
| nostalgia | wistful longing for a return to an earlier, pleasantly remembered time |
| obloquy | a speech that strongly condemns |
| paean | a joyous song or hymn of praise or triumph |
| pathos | the quality of arousing pity |
| piety/pious | the quality of showing proper devotion to religious duties |
| sarcasm | bitter, caustic, ironic language directed against an individual |
| seditious | the quality of undermining or encouraging rebellion against authority |
| sensuous | appealing strongly to the senses |
| sentimental | marked by emotion rather than reason, tending to exaggerate to arouse emotion |
| skeptical | doubtful, unconvinced |
| truculent | scathingly harsh, vitriolic |
| vindictive | tending to seek revenge, intended to cause hurt |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| diction | word choice |
| foil | a character who exhibits contrasting traits, usually worse traits, to another character |
| imply | to suggest indirectly but clearly |
| infer | to understand something that has been suggested indirectly |
| mood | the emotional quality of a scene |
| persona | a character assumed by an author in a written work |
| realism | the school of thought that presents life without idealization or imagination |
| rhetoric | the use of language to accomplish a purpose |
| rhetorical device | any technique of language used to accomplish a purpose |
| rhetorical innovation | a new approach to the use of language to accomplish a purpose |
| style | a distinctive manner of expression, relates to the ways language is used rather than the content |
| voice | the characteristics of a person’s writing that make it sound like that person and not someone else |
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