AP Lit Vocab List 5

Denouement

OUTCOME; UNRAVELING OF THE PLOT OF A PLAY OR WORK OF LITERATURE

Intelligentsia

an educated and intellectual elite

Palatable

(adj.) agreeable to the taste or one's sensibilities; suitable for consumption.

Repartee

A quick, witty reply

Termagant

a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman

Succinct

Brief, concise

Provincial

(adj.) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; (n.) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outl

Myopic

(adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

Insouciance

Casual lack of concern , indifference

Deleterious

Harmful

Cryptic

(adj.) puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic

Insipid

lacking interest or flavor

Manifesto

A PUBLIC DECLARATION OF BELIEFS OR PRINCIPLES, USUALLY POLITICAL ONES

Proclivity

(n.) A natural or habitual inclination or tendency (especially of human character or behavior)

Suave

(adj.) smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses

Sacrosanct

extremely sacred; beyond criticism

Perspicacity

(noun) mental sharpness; keen insight; shrewdness

Inveigh

(v.) to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval

Epicurean

a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

Capitulate

(v.) to end resistance, give up, surrender, throw in the towel

Altercation

(n.) an angry argument

Dogmatic

authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated

Internecine

(adj.) mutually destructive; characterized by great slaughter and bloodshed

Penurious

(adj.) - without money, great poverty

Stentorian

VERY LOUD, BOOMING (OF A VOICE)

Reticent

Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings

Anaphora

A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences.

Synecdoche

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the m

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

An estimation of something as worthless

JOBBERNOWL

a stupid person, a blockhead

ETAOIN SHRDLU

A nonsense phrase; an absurd or unintelligible utterance

HORNSWOGGLE

To swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax