AP Vocabulary and Terms

a feeling of intense longing for something

• insincere

• jarring

• probing

• yearning

making a loud, confused noise; uproarious

• tumultuous

• subtly

• reticent

• pretentiously

in a manner that is so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe OR in a clever and indirect way, in order to achieve something

• subtly

• inexorable

• insincere

• jarring

not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily

• inexorable

• insincere

• reticent

• probing

physically explore or examine (something) with the hands or an instrument OR seek to uncover information about someone or something

• fleeting

• dismay

• jarring

• probing

concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty OR a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement

• aesthetic

• censure

• ambivalent

• affluence

characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter

• ambivalent

• egotism

• fleeting

• pretentiously

characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter

• jarring

• pretentiously

• insincere

• erudite

the state of having a great deal of money; wealth

• fleeting

• affluence

• delves

• dismay

not expressing genuine feelings

• insincere

• exertions

• erudite

• delves