AP Lang Vocab Week 9

Philanderer

A man who frequently engages in casual, brief, or unfaithful sexual relationships with many different women without intending to form a serious emotional commitment. (Fickle Lover)

Solecism

An impolite, tactless act, or a breach of etiquette and proper decorum. (Any kind of error)

Spoonerism

A speech error or form of wordplay in which the initial consonant sounds, vowels, or syllables of two or more words are swapped, creating a new and often humorous phrase.

Sybarite

A person who is devoted to luxury, comfort, and sensual pleasure.

Tawdry

Cheap, gaudy, or of poor quality, often describing something that looks flashy or bright on the surface but lacks true value, elegance, or taste. (Trashy)

Acidulous

Biting or sharp in taste or manner.

Baleful

Threatening or menacing

Bellicose

To be an instigator, to want to fight.

Squeamish

Someone who is disgusted or able to scare easy (Nauseatingly unpleasant)

Bumptious

Someone who is super arrogant and is pushy and loud, especially in conversations

Captious

Someone who is hypercritical, nitpicky, or constantly finding fault in trivial things.

Churlish

Rude, surly, mean-spirited, and lacking.

Complaisant

Willing to please others, obliging, or overly agreeable.

Contrite

A tone or attitude of feeling or expressing sincere remorse, guilt, or penitence for a wrongdoing or sin.

Convivial

to be fond of good company, lively, and festive.

Craven

When someone is incredibly cowardly, fearful, or not courageous. (cowardly)

Debonair

Someone who is confident, charming, and stylish (typically a man).

Lachrymose

To cause tears, mourning, or sad.

Neurasthenic

To be extremely exhausted, emotionally fatigued, or a state of being worn out.

Dispeptic

Someone who is irritable, gloomy, or ill-tempered.