Ap Lit Vocab 1

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Adjunct

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(N): something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic.
(Adj.) added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in auxiliary capacity.

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Bellwether

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(N): One that serves as a leading indicator of future trends; the male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader as in a desperate or violent undertaking.

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Caterwaul

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(V): To howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel
(N.) A harsh or noisy cry; a racket

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Chimerical

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(Adj.): Absurd; wildly fanciful; impossible

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Effete

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(Adj.): lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn-out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out of date

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Fait Accompli

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(N.): An accomplished, presumably irreversible deed or fact.

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Hidebound

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(Adj.): Narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative

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Hierarchy

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(N): Any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order to rank, wealth, class, etc.

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Liturgy

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(N): A religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act or public worship.

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Mirage

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(N): something illusory, without substance, or without a basis in reality; an illusion

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Morass

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(N.): A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand

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Noisome

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(Adj.): Offensive or disgusting; foul smelling; harmful or injurious

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Oblivious

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(Adj.): Forgetful; unaware

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Poltroon

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(N.): A base coward

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Proselyte

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(N): A convert; a disciple

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Quasi-

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(Adj.): Resembling but not actually being seemingly but not actually or complete
2) (Adv.): partly, somewhat, or to some degree (used in combination)

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Raillery

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(N): Good-humored ridicule; teasing

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Ribald

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(Adj.): Irreverently mocking; coarse, vulgar, or indecent in language

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Supine

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(Adj.): Lying flat on one’s back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive

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Vignette

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(N): A short description or sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of the chapter.