English IV AP
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- abet
-
to aid; give assistance
- acquiesce
- to go along with; to comply without protest
- adament
- determined
- aegis
-
under the governing authority
- aesthetic
- beauty in the eye of the beholder
- allegory
-
a story with a moral
- allusion
- reference to something biblical, historical, or part of a literary piece of work
- ambience
-
creating a beautiful atmosphere
- anacronism
- out of time
- anathama
-
everything you hate
- angst
-
inner turmoil
- apocryphal
- myths w/o a known beginning
- apostrophe
-
a direct address to something that con not answer back
- arcane
-
info difficult to know
- ascetic
-
spiritual; simple lives; no luxuries by choice
- banal
-
ordinary and common place
- catharsis
-
fear and pity
- compuntions
-
ethical or moral beliefs
- conreit
- comparison to two dissimilar objects
- conundrum
-
a mystery or puzzle
- craven
- cowardly
- deft
-
skillful with you hands
- denigrate
-
to demean or speak ill of
- denouement
- comes after the climatic moment; usually the resolution of the story
- discombobulate
-
confused; dazed
- elan
-
joy in living
- enervation
-
a lack of energy
- enimity
-
deep hatred
- equanimity
-
calm exceptance
- equivocation
- to somewhat tell the truth, but leave out pieces to deceive
- erroneous
-
wrong; an error
- esteris
-
info easy to find
- expident
-
something quickly thought of or done
- exposition
-
background information
- extent
-
still in existance
- fatalistic
-
whatever happens, happens
- flippant
-
wiseguy-like (commonly, a remark)
- fractious
-
looking for a fight
- futile
- useless
- germane
-
something that is relavant
- glib
-
(a comment) that is said without thought
- gnome
-
a quest for knownledge
- gratuitous
- something nice done for no apparent reason
- hamartia
-
the end result of hubris (tragic flaw?)
- histrionic
-
overly dramatic
- hubris
-
to be like god
excessive pride or self-confidence
- iconoclast
-
questions or attacks any form of authority
- inane
- stupid
- inchoate
-
in the very early stages of development
- inculcate
-
drilling into someone's head
- ingenuous
-
innocent and gullable
- insular
- because they are sheltered: lack on understanding the basic things
- insuperable
- someting you think is such a huge problem that you'll never get over it
- juxtaposition
- putting two things together to relate
- laconic
-
quiet for some background reason
- lascivious
-
over-sexed; older men chasing younger women
- martinet
-
a petty authority figure
- maxim
-
an old saying
- metaphysical
-
dealing with soul and spirit
- metonymy
- substituting something related
- nihilism
-
destruction for no reason
- obsequious
-
to suck up
- onus
-
a burden or responcibility
- panacea
- cure-all
- pariah
-
an outcast
- pedantic
-
someone over concerned about the rules
- persona
-
public face
- pious; impious; piety
-
religious; not religious; showing faith or being faithful
- plemic
- controversy
- pontificate
-
holding forth as if you know everything
- proffer
-
to offer for sale or bid
- prowess
-
great talent
- purblind
-
can not comprehend
- purloin
-
to steal
- purturbed
-
upset or disturbed
- pyrrhic
-
when the lose is greater than the gain
- quixotic
-
people who try to do impossible things
- rapacious
- greedy
- reticent
-
naturally quiet
- sanctimonious
-
self-rightious; sacred
- sardonic
-
humor that arises from bitterness or anger
- satire
-
what's your target? juvenalian? horation?
- spartan
-
the bare necessities of life
- squalor
- filthy conditions
- superfluous
-
not necessary
- supplicant
-
a beggar
- sycophant
-
a suck up
- synaesthesia
-
when you put together two vowels to make a sound neither could make alone (oy, oi)
- synecdoche
- substituting a body part as a whole
- truculent
-
looking for a fight
- ubiquitous
- everywhere
- unrequited
- unfurfilled
- usurp
-
to steal the rightful position of another
- veracity
-
capacity for telling the truth
- viceral
-
a reaction from pure discription