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AP Lit Vocab Q1

TermDefinition
Forestall to prevent or obstruct an anticipated event or action by taking action or steps ahead of time.
Tumultuous making a loud, confused noise; uproarious
Elusive difficult to find, catch or achieve
Paraphernalia articles needed for a particular activity or purpose
Obstinate stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinions or chosen course of action
Glib readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially or insincerely.
Disputatious confrontational, argumentative
Impudent disrespectful
Poignant evoking a keen sense of sadness or despair
Melancholy a feeling of pervasive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
Lithe thin, supple, graceful (often describing a person’s body)
Benign gentle and kindly; non-threatening
Banal dull/boring/obvious
Magnanimous generous
Puritanical practicing strict moral behavior
Languor the state of feeling pleasantly tired or lacking energy
Pedantic overly attentive to details
Arcane understood by few, secret or mysterious
Imperious marked by arrogant assurance; haughty
Impotence powerlessness
Vapid shallow/dull
Restive unable to keep still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control; impatient
Fatuity something foolish or stupid
Grotesque repulsively ugly or distorted
Undulate move or go with smooth up and down motion
Vociferous making a loud outcry
Indigent taking offense to something
Insipid lacking flavor
Bombastic high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated
Abstruse difficult to understand
Colloquial used in ordinary or familiar conversation, not formal
Bemused puzzled or confused
Bulbus Resembling a bulb especially in roundness or the gross enlargement of a part
Trite Overused, not important; lacking originality
Obscure Unknown
Imperious assuming power or authority without justification
Arduous difficult or tiring
Curt rudely brief
Elicit to call forth or draw out
Inviolable never to be broken
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