Q2 Week 1 Ap Lang Word List

Question 1

dia

Answer 1

across

Question 2

soph

Answer 2

wisdom

Question 3

ist

Answer 3

one who

Question 4

ex

Answer 4

out

Question 5

dis

Answer 5

away

Question 6

nod

Answer 6

knot

Question 7

cup

Answer 7

desire

Question 8

lent

Answer 8

full of

Question 9

ed

Answer 9

eat

Question 10

ven

Answer 10

come

Question 11

ten

Answer 11

hold

Question 12

inter

Answer 12

between

Question 13

locu

Answer 13

talk

Question 14

apo

Answer 14

away

Question 15

auto

Answer 15

self

Question 16

res

Answer 16

thing

Question 17

fy

Answer 17

make

Question 18

medi

Answer 18

middle

Question 19

circum

Answer 19

around

Question 20

culp

Answer 20

blame

Question 21

dialectic

Answer 21

Logical argument (Hegel’s famous dialectic involved thesis, antithesis, and synthesis)

Question 22

temerarious

Answer 22

reckless (The temerarious Phaeton insisted on driving the sun chariot)

Question 23

sophist

Answer 23

a specious reasoner (Socrates exposed the specious arguments of the Sophists)

Question 24

erudite

Answer 24

scholarly (The erudite Prospero loved to peruse his scholarly texts)

Question 25

denouement

Answer 25

unraveling of plot (In the sanguinary denouement, Oedipus blinds himself)

Question 26

concupiscence

Answer 26

intense desire or lust (Ovid told the concupiscent myths of the Romans)

Question 27

esculent

Answer 27

edible (Walt Whitman said he incorporated quadrupeds, birds, and esculent roots)

Question 28

pertinacious

Answer 28

holding stubbornly (The pertinacious Achilles would not listen to reason)

Question 29

interlocutor

Answer 29

person in conversation (In time, Friday became an able interlocutor)

Question 30

aphorism

Answer 30

a concise wisdom (He mistook his tedious clichés for delightful aphorisms)

Question 31

autodidact

Answer 31

self-taught person (Mary Shelley’s monster was a pitiful, gruesome autodidact)

Question 32

reify

Answer 32

treat as real (To believe in the myth is to reify the metaphor, and to miss the point)

Question 33

in medias res

Answer 33

in the middle of things (Bronte’s novel “Wuthering Heights” begins in medias res)

Question 34

circumvent

Answer 34

get around (As Berryman’s “Ball Poem” shows, no one can circumvent loss)

Question 35

exculpate

Answer 35

free from blame (He was exculpated when the real murderer confessed)