AP LANG VOCAB 1 KETTERLING

Integrity

total honesty and sincerity

Affable

being pleasant and at ease in talking to others

Facetious

joking or jesting often inappropriately; not serious

Assiduous

showing great care, attention, and effort

Quandary

a state of perplexity or doubt

Transient

passing especially quickly into and out of existence

Colloquial

ordinary or familiar type of conversation

Jargon

diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity

Denotation

the literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations

Connotation

the associations suggested by a word; implied meaning rather than literal