AP LIT 345
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sycophant | a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage-noun |
| loquacious | full of trivial conversation-adj |
| ennui | the feeling of being bored by something tedious-noun |
| vapid | lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest-adj |
| banal | obvious and dull, lacking orginality-adj |
| diffident | lacking self-confidence-adj |
| effervescent | marked by high spirits or excitement-adj |
| ineluctable | impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"-adj |
| contumely | a rude expression intended to offend or hurt-noun |
| salient | prominent; of notable significance-adj |
| sanguine | confidently optimistic and cheerful-adj |
| inane | without sense or meaning; silly-adj |
| Desultory | marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose-adj |
| Sardonic | disdainfully or ironically humorous-adj |
| vociferous | conspicuously and offensively loud. expressing paddion loudly and insistntly wiht strong feeling-adj |
| pusillanimous | lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution -adj |
| surreptitous | (adj) stealthy, secret, intended to escape observationl made or accomplished by fraud |
| Discombobulated | having self-possession upset-verb |
| Stultify | deprive of strength or efficiency- verb |
| Zeitgeist | the spirit of the time-noun |
| pariach | one that is despised or rejected-n |
| peremptory | leaving no opportunity-adj |
| ubiquitour | (adjective) being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time |
| vagary | (noun) An extravagant or erratic notion or action |
| sobriquet | (noun) an affectionate or humorous nickname |
| satiate | verb- to satisfy fully |
| taciturn | adj- inclined to silence |
| pontificate | noun- to speak in a pompous matter |
| anathema | noun- a formal ecclesiastical ban |
| multifarious | adj.- having many different parts |
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