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character vocab
AP literature
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Affable | Friendly, or easy to talk to |
| Amiable | Displaying a friendly and pleasant manner |
| Arrogant | having an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities. |
| Blasphemous | god or sacred things, irreverent, profane. |
| Conscientious | wishing to do what is right |
| Despotic | tyrannical, autocratic, dictatorial |
| diffident | modest, or shy because a lack of self-confidence |
| diligent | showing care and conscientiousness in one's work or duties |
| discreet | careful about what one says or does, to avoid offense. |
| dogmatic | expressing personal opinions or beliefs as if they are certainly correct and cannot be doubted |
| exuberant | very lively, happy, or energetic: filled with energy and enthusiasm |
| fastidious | critical, hard to please; very attentive to accuracy and detail |
| feckless | lacking initiative, indifferent, lazy, and irresponsible |
| frank | straight forward, honest |
| gregarious | sociable, friendly, fond of company |
| hapless | unlucky, unfortunate;luckless |
| haughty | arrogantly superior and disdainful |
| iconoclastic | characterized by attacks on cherished beliefs or institutions; attacking or ignoring long-held traditions. |
| impetuous | acting quickly and without thought or care; reckless |
| indomitable | impossible to subdue or defeat |
| indolent | wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy |
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge |
| insouciant | free from worry or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant; showing a casual lack of concern; characterized by a lighthearted unconcern. |
| intuitive | having the ability to know or understand things without any proof or evidence |