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AP Exam vocab Flashcards

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Acussatory

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chargung of wrongdoing

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Apathetic

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indifferent due to lack of energy or concern

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Awe

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solemn wonder

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Bitter

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Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief

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Cynical

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questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people

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Condescension

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condescending-a feeling of supiority

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Callous

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Unfeeling, insensitive to the feelings of others

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Contemplative

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Studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue

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Critical

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finding fault

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Choleric

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Hot tempered, easily angered

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Contemptuous

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Showing or feeling that something is worthless and lacks respect

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Caustic

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Intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting

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Conventional

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Lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality

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Disdainful

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Scornful

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Didastic

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Author attempts to eductae or instruct the reader

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Derisive

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Ridiculing, mocking

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Earnest

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Intense, a sincere state of mind

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Erudite

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Learned, polished, scholarly

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Fanciful

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Using the imagination

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Forthright

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Directly frank without hesitation

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Gloomy

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Darkness, sadness, rejection

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Haughty

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Proud and vain to the point of arrogance

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Indignant

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Marked by anger or aroused by justice

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Intimate

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Very familiar

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Judgemental

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authoritative and often having critical opinions

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Jovial

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happy

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Lyrical

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expressing a poet’s inner feelings; emotional; full of images; song-like

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Matter-of-fact

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accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional

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Mocking

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Treating with contempt or ridicule

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Morose

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Gloomy, sullen, surly, independent, despondent

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Malicious

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Purposely hurtful

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Objective

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An unbiased view-able to leave personal judgements aside

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Optimistic

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Hopeful, cheerful

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Obsequious

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polite and obedient in order to gain something

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Patronizing

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air of condenscenion

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Pessimistic

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Seeing the worst side of things; no hope

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Quizzical

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Odd, eccentric, amusing

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Ribald

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Offensive in speech or gesture

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Reverent

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Treating a subject with honor and respect

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Ridiculing

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slightly contemptuous banter; making fun of

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Reflective

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Illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions

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Sarcastic

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Sneering, caustic

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Sardonic

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Scornfully and bitterly sarcastic

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Satiric

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Ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach

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Sincere

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Without deceit or pretense; genuine

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Solemn

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Deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection

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Sanguineous

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Optimistic, cheerful

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Whimsical

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Odd, strange, fantastic, fun

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Paradox

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A statement that appears to be self contradictory or opposing to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some truth and validity

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Anadisplosis

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The repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence

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Anaphora

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The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition

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Epistrophe

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The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

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Litote

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A figure of speech that creates an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions.

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Asyndeton

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The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

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Zeugma

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A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses

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Antimetabole

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A literary and rhetorical device in which a phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order

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Apposition

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The act of placing together or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition.

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Hypophora

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A figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question

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Synechdoche

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A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa

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Polysyndeton

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Polysyndeton is a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed

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