Details Title: AP Lang Vocab 1 Description: Vocab. Total Flash Cards: 30 Created: 09/14/2009 16:16:36		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Language - English Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Aesthetic Definition 2. having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty. 3. pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality. Term Ambivalence Definition uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things. Term Amenable Definition ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable: Term Buttress Definition to give encouragement or support to (a person, plan, etc.). Term Candor Definition 1. the state or quality of being frank, open, and sincere in speech or expression; candidness: freedom from bias; fairness; impartiality: Term Concord Definition agreement between things; mutual fitness; harmony. Term Contentious Definition causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy: Term Cryptic Definition mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous: Term Dawdle Definition to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter: Term Derision Definition an object of ridicule. Term Disparage Definition to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Term Dogmatic Definition asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated. Term Esoteric Definition understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite Term Espouse Definition to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause. Term Feasible Definition capable of being done, effected, or accomplished Term Flippant Definition frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: Term Fortuitous Definition happening or produced by chance; accidental: Term Hamper Definition to hold back; hinder; impede: Term Imperceptible Definition very slight, gradual, or subtle Term Inept Definition without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; Term Mutable Definition 1. liable or subject to change or alteration. 2. given to changing; constantly changing; fickle or inconstant: Term Nostalgia Definition a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: Term Paradox Definition a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. Term Petulant Definition moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, esp. over some trifling annoyance Term Refute Definition 1. to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge. 2. to prove (a person) to be in error. Term Repudiate Definition to reject as having no authority or binding force: Term Reticence Definition disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; restrained Term Satirize Definition to attack or ridicule with satire. Term Taciturn Definition inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation. Term Vacillation Definition unsteady movement; fluctuation.