AP LANG VOCAB ALL KETTERLING

Ostentatious

characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice

Impartial

not partial or biased; treating or affecting all equally

Vindicated

to free from allegation or blame

Embellish

to make beautiful with ornamentation

Proliferate

to increase in number

Wary

very cautious

Paradox

a statement/person that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true

Oxymoron

a combination of contradictory or incongruous words

Hyperbole

an extravagant or extreme exaggeration

Antecedent

a noun, pronoun, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun; an event or cause coming before something

Eloquent

marked by forceful and fluent expression

Futile

serving no useful purpose; completely ineffective

Impede

to interfere with or slow the progress of

Dogmatic

expressing opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts

Capricious

impulsive; unpredictable

Intrepid

characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance

Juxtaposition

placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect

Anaphora

repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases

Invective

insulting or abusive language

Parallelism

sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns

penitent

feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

elusive

tending to evade grasp or pursuit; hard to comprehend or define

convoluted

intricate

consensus

general agreement

incumbent

obligatory

profound

having intellectual depth and insight

diction

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

vernacular

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

aphorism

a pithy observation that contains a general truth

fallacy

a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound or misleading argument; faulty reasoning

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