Ap Lang & Comp Vocab Set 3

Auspicious

conducive to success; favorable. favorable, propitious, promising

 Cacophony

a harsh discordant mixture of sounds. discord, dissonance, din, discordance.

Concede

admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it. Surrender or yield. admit, accept, acknowledge.

Digression

the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work. aside, tangent, excursion.

 Discursive

digressing from subject to subject. relating to discourse or modes of discourse. rambling, digressive, meandering, wandering.

Dubious

hesitating or doubting. not to be relied upon; suspect. suspicious, uncertain, doubtful.

Egregious

outstandingly bad; shocking. appauling, horrific, horrifying.

Euphemism

a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. substitute, understatement, underplaying.

 Flagrant

(of something considered wrong or immoral) conspicuously or obviously offensive. blatant, glaring, obvious, evident.

 Litotes

ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g., you won't be sorry, meaning you'll be glad ).

 Metonymy

the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing. “a bunch of Suits”

Parable

a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. allegory, exemplum, fable

 Ruse

an action intended to deceive someone; a trick. ploy. gambit, scheme, trick.

Satire

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. derision, mockery, scorn, caricature.

Syllogism

a valid deductive argument having two premises and a conclusion. deductive reasoning as distinct from induction. an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ).