Lang Vocab (Cummulative)

Vocab words for AP lang for quiz

Aesthetic

Relating with beauty

Affable

Friendly

Alienated

Removed or disassociated from a group

Amenable

Responsive / Agreeable

Anaphora

Repetition of words before phrases for emphasis.

Example: “It was fair. It was clean. It was justified”

Antecedent

Noun that is referred to by the pronoun.

Antimetabole

repetition of words in inverted order to make stronger contrast:

Example: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

Apology

defense of an idea

Apposition

non-essential clause that only contains a noun.

Example: Ragoon, a bumbling baboon, hates chemistry.

Arbiter

judge who settles dispute

Archetype

perfect example, epitome of

Assertion

declaration & statement

Assiduous

hard-working

Astute

clever, shrewd

Asyndeton

leave out conjunctions for rhythm effects.

Ex. I play the violin, play the guitar, play the piano

Austere

strict, without decoration

Brusque

rudely abrupt

Candor

frankness (being open, direct, and honest)

Capricious

Unpredictable

Caustic

Bitingly sarcastic or biting

Chiasmus

Inversion in 2nd of 2 parallel phrases. It is similar to what an Antimetabole is, but it only applies to structure, not the same diction.

Ex. An Antimetabole is a Chiasmus, but a Chiasmus is not an Antimetabole.

Clandestine

Secretive

Cogent

reasonable/convincing

Coherent

logically makes sense

conception

the ability to understand/form an idea, to ‘conceptualize’

Convoluted

confusing/complex

Copious

a lot of

Cumulative (loose) sentence

independent followed by many useless dependents (natural speech)

Declarative Sentence

makes a statement

decorous

decorated, proper, good tasting

Deductive

reasoning from general to specific

Despotic

exercising absolute power

Didactic

intended to instruct

Dilettante

one with amateur / superficial knowledge in the field

Discourse

conversation

Disparage

to belittle

Dogged

stubbornly persevering

Dogmatic

holding to unproven beliefs

Ebullience

intense enthusiasm

Eclectic

made up of a variety of styles

Effusive

Not restrained by emotion, gushing

Egregious

bad, offensive

Elegiac

mournful

Eloquence

speaking in clean and persuasive manner

Enmity

mutual hate

Epigram

a small, clever poem about a though or idea, similar to the size of a proverb.

Equanimity

being calm and even tempered.

Equivocate

not making a definitive statement.

Exculpate

to vindicate from guilt or blame

Facile

easy