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Lesson 32
AP Lit Flash Cards
25
English
12th Grade
09/19/2012

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Term
amenity
Definition

agreeable ways or manners; the quality of being agreeable or pleasant

 

Ex: The woman was adored for her social amenities.

Term
anathema
Definition

a vigorous denunciation; one who is intensely disliked

 

Ex: The rebellious boy continued in his wayward actions despite the anathema pronouced by his father.

Term
atypical
Definition

unusual or abnormal; odd

 

Ex: Screaming at the the referee fois atypical for a normally calm coach

Term
balky
Definition

refusing to proceed in an expected direction

 

Ex: When he refused to move he acted just like a balky mule.

Term
Bourgeois
Definition

a person with the traits or viewpoints of the bourgeoisie

 

Ex: Your outdated ideas are so bourgeois.

Term
concert
Definition

agreement in purpose or feeling, consensus

 

Ex: My wife and children were in concert together to destroy me.

Term
confluence
Definition

a coming together

 

Ex: What is the name of the town that sits at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi River?

Term
corpulence
Definition

state of being very fat

 

Ex: Overeating will lead to corpulence.

Term
dirge
Definition

funeral hymn, lament

 

Ex: The music was so morose and solemn that it sounded like a dirge.

Term
disconcerting
Definition

upsetting, frustrating

 

Ex: That he has not responded to the medicine is disconcerting.

Term
endemic
Definition

peculiar to or a trait of a group or area

 

Ex: Great height is endemic to members of that African tribe.

Term
focus
Definition

to concentrate

 

Ex: We need to focus our attention on today's topic  and not on extraneous matters.

Term
hilarity
Definition

boisterous merriment, mirth

 

Ex: The party was marked by great hilarity.

Term
indict
Definition

to charge or accuse

 

Ex: If the Grand Jury indicts the man, he will be tried for murder.

 

Term
latent
Definition

not visible, dormant

 

Ex: Sometimes a teacher can cause latent talents to emerge.

 

Term
monumental
Definition

massive, very great, very important

 

Ex: Sending man to the moon was a monumental achievement.

Term
myraid
Definition

a very large and indefinite number

 

Ex: The myraid of races and cultures that make up America is said to resemble a mosaic.

Term
oscillating
Definition

moving back and forth, swinging, varying

 

Ex: The oscillating pendulum was beginning to unnerve me.

Term
pithy
Definition

concise and meaningful

 

Ex: Due to great demands on his time, the President needs memos that he must read to be pithy.

 

Term
premeditated
Definition

thought out beforehand

 

Ex: Premediated murder is punishable by the death penalty in Texas.

Term
presage
Definition

something that foreshadows a futre event; foreknowledge of the future

 

Ex: Many view a rainbow as a presage of good fortune.

Term
quixotic
Definition

idealist but impractical

 

Ex: It is usually quixotic for a commoner to pursue a relationship with a member of the royal family.

Term
reserve
Definition

self-restraint

 

Ex: He showed a lot of reserve in dealing with the harsh critics at the meeting.

Term
stasis
Definition

motionless, stagnation

 

Ex: At a particular point of stasis, one cannot advance in growth or understanding.

Term
warranted
Definition

justified

 

Ex: The jury felt that the death penalty was warrented becouse of the heinous nature of the crime.

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