AP Lit Words

• Ominous


  (adj) giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.
• foreboding


  (adj) fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen.
• When responding to question like what is the theme of story don't _


  restate the question or have the word theme
• Liminality


  (adj) Being in between two marginals. When going from A to C the liminality will That is the B.
• intricate


  (adj) very complicated or detailed
• Zeitgeist


  (n) the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.
• salient


  (adj) prominent, most noticeable or important
• theorist


  (noun) One given to speculating
• incentive


  desire/motive to do something
• opulence


  wealth, affluence, abundance
• elucidate

  make clear
• facile


  (adj.) easily done or attained; superficial; ready, fluent; easily shown but not sincerely felt
• bucolic


  (adj.) characteristic of the countryside, rural; relating to shepherds and cowherds, pastoral
• melancholy


  (adj) depression of spirits, sadness
• ennui


  (n.)weariness and dissatisfaction from lack of occupation or interest, boredom

  Synonyms: languor, world-weariness, listlessness

  Antonyms: enthusiasm, liveliness, excitement, intesity
• grandiloquent


  (adj) pompous or high-flown in speech, lofty in style
• prognosticator


  (n) a person who makes predictions based upon current information and data
• mangiloquence


  (n) use of high flown language
• finicky


  excessively concerned with trifles or details; hard to please; fussy; particular; fastidious; persnickety
• fastidious


  very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail
• persnickety


  too fussy or picky
• Insidious


  intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous
• Intimation


  a hint, indirect suggestion
• Augment


  to make larger, increase
• Verbatim


  word for word; exactly as written or spoken
• Warily


  (adv.) cautiously, with great care
• Opulent


  wealthy, luxurious; ample; grandiose
• Pliable


  easily bent, flexible; easily influenced
• stolid


  not easily moved mentally or emotionally; dull, unresponsive
• Fortitude


  courage in pain or adversity
• Reiterate

  repeat, say again
• Gaped


  stared with the mouth open, as in wonder or surprise
• Dour


  stern, unyielding, gloomy, ill-humored
• Bereft


  deprived of; made unhappy through a loss
• Tentative


  experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant
• Adulterated


  render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance, typically an inferior one.
• quintessence


  the purest essence or form of something; the most typical example
• kaleidoscopic


  a complex, colorful, and shifting pattern or scene; a complex set of events or circumstances
• confabulation


  the unintended false recollection of episodic memories
• flibbertigibbet


  a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person