AP Vocabulary, List I

1.	Anastrophe: an inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect.
2.	Ascetic: relating to or having a strict and simple way of living that avoids physical pleasure.
3.	Alliteration: the use of words that begin with the same sound near one another (as in wild and wooly or a babbling brook).
4.	Defray: to pay for (something).
5.	Antimetabole: a literary and rhetorical device in which a phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order. Example “Fair is foul and foul is fair” from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
6.	Enjoin: to direct or order (someone) to do something.
7.	Allusion: a statement, particularly when used in a literary text, that refers to something without mentioning it directly.
8.	Interloper: a person who is not wanted or welcome by the other people in a situation or place.
9.	Vicarious: experienced or felt by watching, hearing about, or reading about someone else rather than by doing something yourself.
10.	Anthropomorphism: an interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics.
11.	Antithesis: the exact opposite of something or someone.
12.	Lassitude: the condition of being tired (a lack of physical or mental energy).
13.	Licentious: sexually immoral or offensive.
14.	Analogy: a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way.
15.	Pecuniary: relating to or in the form of money.
16.	Anaphora: the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect. Example: “We cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground” from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
17.	Presumptuous: too confident especially in a way that is rude: done or made without permission, right, or good reason.
18.	Antihero: a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities.
19.	Vacuous: having or showing a lack of intelligence or serious thought: lacking meaning, importance, or substance.