AP Notes 181-200 Flashcards
Expressing enthusiasm and excitement
Exclamatory
Declaring a statement or fact
Declarative
“To be” verbs knowing this helps with the explication of a piece of writing as writers use this imperatively.
Infinitives
Not to be pleased, mollified, or pacified, inexorable
Implacable
Milder; less in severity
Mitigate
Not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems.
Eclectic
The disgrace or reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy
Opprobrium
Deviating form the ordinary, usual or normal type; exceptional; abnormal
Aberrant
To hinder, block, or thwart
Stymie
Beginning to exist or develop
Nascent
Insatiable greed for riches inordinate l, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.
Avarice
Having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities; an ___ manner. Reflecting elegance, sophistication, especially in expression, when writing letters
Urbane
Free from restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere; artless, innocent; naive; frank, straightforward; guileless
Ingenuous
Burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship
Onerous
Noun- cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions.
Discretion
