Q2 Week 1 Ap Lang Word List Flashcards
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dia
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across
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soph
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wisdom
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ist
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one who
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ex
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out
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dis
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away
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nod
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knot
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cup
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desire
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lent
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full of
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ed
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eat
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ven
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come
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ten
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hold
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inter
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between
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locu
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talk
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apo
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away
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auto
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self
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res
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thing
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fy
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make
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medi
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middle
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circum
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around
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culp
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blame
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dialectic
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Logical argument (Hegel’s famous dialectic involved thesis, antithesis, and synthesis)
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temerarious
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reckless (The temerarious Phaeton insisted on driving the sun chariot)
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sophist
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a specious reasoner (Socrates exposed the specious arguments of the Sophists)
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erudite
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scholarly (The erudite Prospero loved to peruse his scholarly texts)
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denouement
unraveling of plot (In the sanguinary denouement, Oedipus blinds himself)
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concupiscence
intense desire or lust (Ovid told the concupiscent myths of the Romans)
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esculent
edible (Walt Whitman said he incorporated quadrupeds, birds, and esculent roots)
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pertinacious
holding stubbornly (The pertinacious Achilles would not listen to reason)
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interlocutor
person in conversation (In time, Friday became an able interlocutor)
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aphorism
a concise wisdom (He mistook his tedious clichés for delightful aphorisms)
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autodidact
self-taught person (Mary Shelley's monster was a pitiful, gruesome autodidact)
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reify
treat as real (To believe in the myth is to reify the metaphor, and to miss the point)
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in medias res
in the middle of things (Bronte's novel "Wuthering Heights" begins in medias res)
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circumvent
get around (As Berryman's "Ball Poem" shows, no one can circumvent loss)
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exculpate
free from blame (He was exculpated when the real murderer confessed)
