Summer Vocab - AP English Literature

Proscribe (v)

to prohibit or put outside the law

Debauch (v)

to engage in wild and corruptive living, immorality

Debauchery (n)

to engage in wild and corruptive living, immorality

Profligacy

to engage in wild and corruptive living, immorality

Licentious (adj)

immoral leud, corruptive (usually associated with negative sexual connotations)

Prurient (adj)

immoral leud, corruptive

Salacicous (adj)

immoral leud, corruptive

Demagogue (n)

political leader who seeks support by appealing to desires rather than using rational argument

Demagogury (n)

political leader who seeks support by appealing to desires rather than using rational argument

Umbrage (n)

to take offense or annoyance

Travail (n)

suffering and hardship

Veracity (n)

truth

Veracious (adj)

truth

Voracious (adj)

greedy, grasping, having a huge appetite

Rapacious (adj)

greedy, grasping, having a huge appetite

Rapacity (n)

greedy, grasping, having a huge appetite

Encomium (n)

great (formal) praise

Plaudits

praise or honors

Accolades

praise or honors

Laudation

praise or honors

Panegyric

praise or honors

Banal (adj)

ordinary and dull

Prosaic (adj)

ordinary and dull

Dereliction (n)

failure to preform an official duty or responsibility

Derelict (adj)

in very poor condition as a result of disuse and neglect, run down

Derelict (n)

a person without a home, job, or property

Travesty (n)

a farce, untrue

Anathema (n)

anything forbidden socially

Perfidy (n)

treason or double-dealing

Perfidious (adj)

treason or double-dealing

Treachery (n)

treason or double-dealing

Treacherous (adj)

treason or double-dealing

Ignominy (n)

disgraceful

Ignominious (adj)

disgraceful

Pyrrhic (adj)

some victory accomplished at too great a cost

Surfeit (adj)

an excess or overabundance

Dour (adj)

gloomy, solemn

Slothful (adj)

lazy, indolent

Sloth (n)

lazy, indolent

Pithy (adj)

brief, to the point

Terse (adj)

brief, to the point

Laconic (adj)

brief, to the point

Orotund (adj)

wordy, pompous, high sounding, full of herself

Bloviating (adj)

wordy, pompous, high sounding, full of herself

Bombastic (adj)

wordy, pompous, high sounding, full of herself

Pejorative (adj)

wordy, pompous, high sounding, full of himself

Nemisis (n)

a long standing rival

Acquisitive (adj)

greedy or materialistic

(comes from aquire but negative)

Pariah (n)

an outcast

Paradigm (n)

an outstandingly clear or typical example of something

Ebullient (adj)

buoyant, bubbly, enthusiastic, full of energy

Ebullience (n)

buoyant, bubbly, enthusiastic, full of energy

Culpable (adj)

guilt

Culpability (n)

guilt

Exculpate (v)

to free from blame

Exonerated (v)

to free from blame

Recondite (adj)

little known

Arcane (adj)

knowledge understood by few

Esoteric (adj)

knowledge understood by few

Abstruse (adj)

knowledge understood by few

Obscure (adj)

knowledge understood by few

Peremptory (adj)

final, irrevocable

Countermand (v)

to go against

Pertinacious

holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action

Lambent (adj)

glowing, gleaming or flickering with soft radiance (light or fire)

Peccadillo (n)

a small, unimportant offense or sin

Cupidity (n)

inordinate desire for wealth

Tawdry (adj)

cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality

Meretricious (adj)

cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality

Meritorious (adj)

deserving reward or praise

Internecine (adj)

destructive for everyone involved

Imbroglio (n)

a confused, complicated mess or situation

Impetus (n)

the force that makes something happen or happen faster

Perspicacious (adj)

of a cute mental vision or discernment

Confluence (n)

flowing together

Effluence (n)

literally means flowing out off (usually associated with any pollution in water)