AP Language Semester Vocabulary Quiz Flashcards
To contend against; oppose
Repugn
Resembling or having the properties of oil; oily, containing or producing oil
Marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality
Oleaginous
One accused of or charged with a crime
One guilty of a crime or a fault
The source or cause of a problem
Culprit
To make more violent, bitter, or severe
Exacerbate
The action, process, or fact of spreading apart
A divergence of opinion
Divarication
Of, relating to, or connected with the sense of smell
Olfactory
Dominant influence or authority over others
Social, cultural ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group
Hegemony
The use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case
The use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent word in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense
Syllepsis
Long discussion or meeting usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication
Idle talk
Misleading or beguiling speech
Palaver
Extremely sharp; keen
Rapier
The world viewed as a community in which distance and isolation have been dramatically reduced by electronic media
Global village
A theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing; also: extreme egocentrism
Solipsism
Of relating to a tree; resembling a tree
Inhabiting or frequenting trees
Arboreal
Taking on values arbitrarily close to but greater than zero
Immeasurably or incalculably small
Infinitesimal
With all possible speed
Posthaste
Attempting to put into effect an abstract doctrine or theory with little or no regard for practical difficulties
Doctrinaire
A formal utterance of an authoritative opinion
A formal decision given by a court
The capacity for judging or the excretes of this capacity
Judgement
Brought back
Redux
Something done or given as an acknowledgement of vassal’s duty to his lord
Respect
Tribute
Homage
Foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals
Capricious, unpredictable
Quixotic
An original model on which something is patterned: archetype
An individual that exhibits the essential features of a later type
A standard or typical example
A first full-scale and usually functional form of a new type of design of a construction
Prototype
Conspicuous, especially: conspicuously bad: flagrant
Egregious
Prevalent especially to an increase degree
Abundant, common
Copiously supplied: abounding
Rife
Volunteering one’s services where they are neither asked nor needed: meddlesome
Informal, unofficial
Officious
A melodic phrase or figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation in a music drama
A dominant recurring theme
Leitmotif
Occurring immediately before the last one: next to last
Of or relating to the next to the last syllable of a word
Penultimate
One who is extremely or excessively fond of shopping
Shopaholic
To laugh at contemptuously
To subject to usually bitter or contemptuous ridicule
Deride
Having a smooth rich flow
Filled with something (such as honey) that sweetens
Mellifluous
To assert without proof or before proving
To bring forward as a reason or excuse
Allege
Not commensurable, broadly; lacking a basis of comparison in respect to a quality normally subject to comparison
Incommensurable
An ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence also: a minor blunder in speed
Something deviating from the proper, normal, or accepted order
A breath of cigarette or decorum
Solecism
The ringing or sounding of ells
A jingling or tinking sound as if of bells
Tintinnabulation
A going or marching up: advance, especially: a military advance
A difficult and dangerous military retreat
Anabasis
Not open to question
Incontrovertible
Lacking in candor; also: giving a false appearance of simple frankness: calculating
Disingenuous
Anxiety arising from awareness of guilt
Distress of mind over an anticipated action or result
A twinge of misgiving: scruple
Compunction
Occurring everyday
Belonging to each day: everyday
Commonplace, ordinary
Quotidian
To pull up by the roots
To do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots
Eradicate
A landscaping method developed for arid and semiarid climates that utilizes water-conserving techniques
Xeriscape
Popular sentiment
Vox populi
Deliberately affected;theatrical
Of or relating to actors, acting, or the theatre
Histrionic
Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of Thraso; bragging, boastful
Thrasonical
Having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light
Chatoyant
Sort, kind
Ilk
To attempt to ingratiate oneself; toady
To curry favor with (as by flattery)
Apple-polish
Producing wealth; profitable
Lucrative
To win over by wiles; entice
To acquire by ingenuity or flattery: wangle
Inveigle
The character of a language
An intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate
Sprachgefühl
Perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
Not easily overcome or removed
Obstinate
