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AP Lit Summer Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abet | to support or encourage someone; especially someone who has done something wrong |
| abeyance | suspension; temporary cessation |
| abhor | to hate very, very much to detest |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| amorphous | shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; bloblike |
| acumen | keenness of judgement; mental sharpness |
| adage | a traditional saying; a proverb |
| adroit | skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease |
| affluent | rich; prosperous |
| allusion | an indirect reference (often to a literary work); a hint |
| aloof | uninvolved; standing off; keeping one's distance |
| ambiguous | unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted n differet ways |
| assuduous | hardworking;busy;quite diligent |
| auspicious | favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
| axiom | a self-evident rule of truth; a widely accepted saying |
| baroque | extravagantly orante |
| benevolent | generous; kind; doing good deeds |
| blithe | carefree; cheerful |
| bucolic | charmingly rural; rustic; country-like |
| careen | tp swerve; to move rapidly without control; to lean to one side |
| caricature | a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated, often to prove some point about it's subject |
| catharsis | purification that brings emotional relief or renewal |
| chicanery | trickery; deceitfulness; artifice; especially legal or political |
| clandestine | concealed or secret; usually for an evil or subversive purpose |
| commiserate | to express sorrow or sympathy for; to sympathize with; to pity |
| conciliatory | making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill |
| convivial | fond of partying; festive |
| daunt | to make fearful; to intimidate |
| deleterious | harmful |
| demur | to object; to take exception |
| disparage | to belittle; to day uncomplimentary things about, usually in a somewhat indirect way |
| despot | an absolute ruler; an autocrat |
| eminent | well-known and respected; standing out from all others in quality or accomplishment; outstanding |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| erudite | scholarly; deeply leared |
| esoteric | hard to understand; understood by only a select few, peculiar |
| exacerbate | to make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse; to increase the severity |
| extol | to praise highly; to laud |
| facetisious | humorous; not serious; clumsily humuors |
| fastidious | meritculous; demandig; finicky |
| fervor | great warmth or earnestness; ardor; zeal |
| flagrant | glaringly bad; notorious scandalous |
| flippant | frivolously disrespectful; saucy; pert; flip |
| futile | useless; hopeless |
| garrulous | talktaive; chatty |
| histrionic | overly dramatic; theaterical |
| hubris | arrogancel excessive pride |
| iconoclast | one who attacks popular beliefs or insutautions |
| idiom | an expression whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of the words; a lagauge or dialct used by a group of people |
| indulgent | lenient; yeilding to desire |
| ineffable <3 | icapble of being expressed or described |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity; an eccentricity |
| imbue | to inspire; to permeate or tinge |
| limpid | transparent; clear; lucid |
| loquacious | talking a lot or too much |
| magnanimous | forgiving, unrestful; noble in spirit; generous |
| malaise | feeling of depression; uneasiness, or queasiness |
| malleable | easy to shape or bend |
| mellifluous | sweetly flowing |
| mendacious | lying, dishonest |
| meticulous | precise and careful about details; fussy |
| mitigate | to moderate the effect of something |
| munificent | very generous; lavish |
| neophyte | a beginner; novice |
| nomenclature | a set or system of names; a designation; a terminology |
| nuance | a subtle difference or distinction |
| obfuscate | to darken; to confuse; to make confusing |
| omious | threatening; menacing; portending doom |
| omniscient | all-knowing; having infinite wisdom |
| onerous | burdensome; oppressive |
| orthodox | conventional adhering to establish principles or doctrines, especially in religion; by the book |
| paradigm | a model or example |
| paragon | a model or pattern of excellence |
| peripatetic | wandering; traveling continually; itinerant |
| inscrutable | impossible to understand or interpret |
| perfidy | treachery |
| placate | to pacify; to appease to soothe |
| pious | reverent or devout; outwardly (and sometimes falsely) reverent or devout |
| posterity | future generations; descendants; heirs |
| pragmatic | practical; down-to-earth; based on experience rather than theory |
| precarious | dangerously insecure or unsteady |
| prodigious | extraordinary; enormous |
| quixotic | romantic or idealistic to a foolish or impractical degree |
| quotidian | daily; everyday; ordinary |
| reprehensible | worthy of severe blame or censure |
| reprobate | a depraved, wicked person; a degenerate |
| reticent | quiet; restrained; reluctant to speak; especially about oneself |
| revulsion | loathing; repugnance; disgust |
| rhetoric | the art of formal speaking or writing; inflated discourse |
| saccharine | sweet; excessively or disgustingly sweet |
| suffuse | to cover; overspread; to saturate |
| superfluous | extra; unnecessary; redundant |
| supercilious | haughty; patronizing; behaving as though one thinks one is superior to others |
| surmise | to conjecture; to guess |
| surreptitious | sneaky; secret |
| thwart | to prevent from being accomplished; to frustrate; to hider |
| ubiquitous | being everywhere at the same time |
| usurp | to seize wrongfully |
| virulent | extremely poisonous; malignant; full of hate |
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