AP language website vocab 142-160

Question 1

jovial

Answer 1

cheerful

Question 2

ambigious

Answer 2

open to more than one interpretation

Question 3

acerbic

Answer 3

sharp and forthright

Question 4

antecedent

Answer 4

a thing that existed before it logically precedes

Question 5

regional dialect

Answer 5

language spoken in a specific region

Question 6

mythological allusion

Answer 6

casual reference

Question 7

contempt

Answer 7

the feeling that a person or thing is beneath consideration

Question 8

description

Answer 8

a spoken or written account of a person object or event

Question 9

process analysis

Answer 9

how a change takes place through a series of stages

Question 10

extolled

Answer 10

praise enthusiastically

Question 11

rebuttal

Answer 11

a refutation or contradiction

Question 12

conciliatory

Answer 12

intended or likely to placate or pacify

Question 13

poignant

Answer 13

evoking a keen sense or sadness

Question 14

ominous

Answer 14

giving the impression something bad is going to happen

Question 15

exasperated

Answer 15

intensely imitated and frustrated

Question 16

literary allusion

Answer 16

does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers

Question 17

historical allusion

Answer 17

event or period

Question 18

bewilderment

Answer 18

perplexed and confused