AP Vocabulary Quiz 3 Flashcards
AP List 3 Vocabulary
Raze
Def:completely destroy (a building, town, or other site). Part Of Speech: Verb Ex:
Reticent
Def: not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily.Part Of Speech: Adjective Ex:
Retort
Def: say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner.(2) repay (an insult or injury)./turn (an insult or accusation) back on the person who has issued it./use (an opponent’s argument) against them.”the answer they make to us may very easily. < a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive reply to a remark. Part Of Speech: Verb, Noun. Ex:
Subvert
Def: undermine the power and authority of (an established system or institution). Part Of Speech: Verb. Ex:
Tractable
Def: (of a person or animal) easy to control or influence./(of a situation or problem) easy to deal with. Part Of Speech: Adjective. Ex:
Assonance
Def: in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ). Part Of Speech: Noun.
Asyndeton
Def: the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. Part Of Speech: Noun. Ex:
Attitude
Def: a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person’s behavior./ a position of the body proper to or implying an action or mental state. Part Of Speech: Noun.
Ballad
Def: a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one./ a slow sentimental or romantic song. Part Of Speech: Noun.
Ballad Stanza
Def: a four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet. Part Of Speech: Noun.
