AP English Cards
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- ambrosial
- exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; extremely delicious; excellent
- adonis
- very handsome young man
- atlas
- book of maps
- draconian
- cruel; harsh; severe; ironhanded
- echolalia
- automatic and immediate repetition of what others say
- forum
- any medium or place for open discussion and expression of ideas; a public meeting, a radio or TV discussion, editorial page, etc.
- hector
- bully; intimidate with threats; bluster
- hermetic
- airtight
- thespian
- pertaining to the drama or acting
- martial
- pertaining to war; warlike
- narcissistic
- in love with oneself; excessively fascinated and gratified by one’s own physical and mental qualities; egocentric
- paean
- song or hymn of praise, joy, or triumph
- philippic
- bitter denunciation; tirade
- plutocratic
- having great influence because of one’s wealth
- odyssey
- any long series of wanderings or travels
- siren
- dangerous, attractive woman; woman who sings sweetly; apparatus for sounding loud warnings
- stentorian
- very loud
- aboard
- on a ship, train, bus etc; on
- amiss
- in a missing-the-mark manner; wrong; imperfect; faulty
- anon
- soon; presently
- asunder
- in an apart position; apart
- begrimed
- covered with grime; made dirty
- behest
- command; order
- behoove
- be necessary; be proper for
- belittle
- cause to be or seem little or unimportant; disparage
- beset
- attack on all sides; surround
- betimes
- early
- cumbersome
- full of encumbrances; burdensome
- foundling
- infant found after being deserted by its unknown parents
- noisome
- offensive to the sense of smell; unwholesome
- nowise
- in no way; not at all
- lissome
- lithesome; nimble
- starveling
- one who is thin from lack of food
- yearling
- one who is one year old
- bearish
- like a bear; rough; tending to depress stock prices; expecting fall in stock prices
- bullish
- like a bull; obstinate; tending to cause rises in stock prices; expecting rise in stock prices
- canine
- of or pertaining to the dog family; designating one of the four pointed teeth next to the incisors
- diabolical
- cruel; wicked; fiendish
- feline
- of or pertaining to the cat family; sly; stealthy
- feminine
- denoting the opposite gender of masculine; having the features, qualities, and characteristics belonging to women
- filial
- of or befitting a daughter or son
- fraternal
- brotherly; having to do with a fraternal society
- lupine
- of or like a wolf; ravenous
- masculine
- denoting the opposite gender of female; having qualities appropriate to a man
- motherly
- motherly; inherited from or related to the mother’s side
- puerile
- foolish for a grown up to say or do
- sanguinary
- bloody
- sheepish
- like a sheep in timidity or stupidity; awkwardly bashful or embarrassed
- vulpine
- of or like a fox; crafty; cunning