AP Lang Vocab, but Quarter 2 now

Doleful

Full of or expressing grief

Dolorous

Causing, marked by, or expressing grief

Dubious

Unsettled in opinion or giving rise to uncertainty

Earnest

Expressing an intent state of mind; grave or important

Ebullient

Boiling or agitated; expressing liveliness or enthusiasm

Effusive

Expressing great or excessive emotion or enthusiasm

Egocentric

Concerned with the individual rather than society

Elegiac

Of, relating to, or comprising of elegy or an elegy

Equitable

Dealing fairly and equally with all concerned

Erudite

Having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying

Esoteric

Knowledge that is difficult to understand, or restricted to a small group or individual

Excoriating

To criticize scathingly, or wear the skin off via abrasion

Facetious

Joking or sarcastic especially in a way regarded as silly, annoying, or inappropriate

Fanciful

Marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than reason or experience

Fervent

Great intensity of feeling/zealous

Flippant

Lacking proper respect or seriousness

Forthright

Free from ambiguity or evasiveness, and straight to the point; austere in clothing

Garrulous

Given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity; pointlessly or annoyingly talkative

Insolent

Rude or impolite; having or showing a lack of respect for other people

Irreverent

Lacking proper respect or seriousness

Jovial

Characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality

Mordant

Biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style

Morose

Having a sullen and gloomy disposition

Obsequious

Marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

Pedantic

Overly concerned with minor details

Pejorative

Having negative connotations, usually tending to disparage or belittle

Puerile

Juvenile, childish, or silly

Petulant

characterized by impatience and grumpy annoyance

Pithy

Having substance and point

Poignant

Deeply affecting

Pompous

Having or exhibiting self-importance; excessively elevated or ornate

Rancorous

Marked by bitter, deep-seated ill will; deeply malevolent

Resolute

Marked by firm determination

Rhapsodic

Extravagantly emotional/rapturous

Sardonic

Showing disrespect or scorn for something; disdainfully skeptic or humorous; derisively mocking

Sullen

Gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed; dull or somber in color

Superficial

Affecting only the outer part of the surface; not deep or serious

Affable

Easy going or friendly

Amenable

Responsive or agreeable

Anaphora

Repetition of words at the beginning of successive phrases, sentences, or clauses

Antecedent

Noun to which a later pronoun refers to

Antimetabole

Repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast

Apposition

A grammar construction in which a noun or phrase is replaced with another as an explanation

Arbiter

A judge who decides a disputed issue

Archetype

A perfect example

Assidious

Hard-working

Asyndeton

Rhetorical strategy of leaving out conjunctions

Chiasmus

An inversion in the second of two parallel sentences

Clandestine

Secretive

Cogent

Convincing or reasonable

Convoluted

Intricate or complex

Cumulative Sentence

Independent clause followed by a dependent/subordinate clause

Declarative Sentence

A sentence that makes a statement

Decorous

Proper or marked by good taste

Despotic

Exercising absolute power

Dilettante

One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge, typically because they’re entertained or curious about it, and use it as a hobby, rather than a career or education

Discourse

Verbal expression or exchange; a conversation

Dogged

Stubbornly preserving

Ebullience

Intense enthusiasm

Eclectic

Made up of a variety of sources or styles

Effusive

Emotionally unrestrained; gushing

Eloquence

The ability to speak vividly or persuasively

Enmity

Mutual hatred or ill will

Epigram

A brief, witty statement

Equanimity

The quality of being calm and even-tempered

Exculpate

To free from guilt or blame

Facile

Done or achieved with little effort

Flagrant

Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable

Fractious

Quarrelsome or unruly

Frenetic

Vividly excited or active

Hortatory

Urging or strongly encouraging

Hypophora

Asking a question then answering it

Imperative sentence

A sentence giving a command

Imperious

Arrogantly domineering or overbearing

Impinge

To hinder or interfere with

Incorrigible

Unable to be reformed

Induction

Reasoning from specific to general

Deduction

Reasoning from general to specific

Insipid

Uninteresting or unchallenging

Paradox

Statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true

Intrepid

Courageous or fearless

Inverted Sentence

A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject

Inveterate

Long established and/or deep-rooted

Laudatory

Giving praise

Listless

Lacking energy

Malfeasance

Wrongdoing or misconduct

Maverick

One who is independent and resists adherence to a group

Metonymy

Figurative tool in which a term is substituted with another closely related term

Mollify

To calm or soothe

Nascent

Coming into existence; emerging

Nominalization

Process of turning a verb or adjective into a noun

Novel

Strikingly new or unusual

Obdurate

Stubborn or inflexible

Ostentatious

Describing a showy or pretentious display

Oxymoron

An apparent contradiction of terms

Panegyric

Statement of high praise

Paradigm

Example or model

Obstinate

Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action

Equivocate

To avoid making a definite statement

Paramount

Of chief concern or importance