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AP English Language And Composition Vocab
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1. Hard-working
rhetorical question
antithesis
hackneyed
assiduous
2. Appeal based on emotion
arid
nocturnal
pathos
rhetorical question
3. Existing only as an assumption or speculation
quandary
lexicon
hypothetical
personification
4. A term that signifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas
caustic
slippery slope (also called domino theory)
slander
analogy
5. Poisonous
apparatus
integrity
toxic
spurious
6. Sincerity; openness
ebullience
candor
alienated
discredit
7. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
false analogy
dilettante
tenuous
anastrophe
8. To slow the progress of
cause/effect
fabricated
embellish
impede
9. Enormous
dictatorial
prodigious
personification
allusion
10. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
caustic
chiasmus
process analysis
maverick
11. Easily understood; clear
disparity
lexicon
lucid
hypocrisy
12. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
simile
penitent
absolutes
cogent
13. A wonderful form of word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar
omnipotent
imperative sentence
malapropism
euphemism
14. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
archaic
stoic
gratuitous
pathos
15. An observation or claim that is in opposition to your claim or an author's claim
cause and effect
comprehensive
antithesis
vitality
16. A reference that recalls another work - another time in history - another famous person - and so forth
conflagration
allusion
panegyric
incorrigible
17. A form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole
synecdoche
trivial
begging the question
parentheticals
18. The use of words to express something other than and often the opposite of the literal meaning
irony
allusion
deleterious
toxic
19. Strikingly new or unusual
novel
mollify
perception
condemn
20. A pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people
impression
jargon
fallacy
hackneyed
21. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
whimsical
propitious
malleable
effusive
22. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
rational
rhetorical shift
lament
rancorous
23. Short-lived or temporary
ambiguous
idealize
transitory
tenacity
24. Appeal based on logic or reason
logos
didactic
cause/effect
narrative
25. Not genuine
spurious
asylum
slander
pun
26. Without decoration; strict
alliteration
propriety
austere
suppressed
27. A question
red herring
metaphor
theoretical
interrogative sentence
28. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
rapport
assimilation
facetious
objectivity
29. This clause contains a noun and a verb but is set up with a subordinate conjunction - which makes the clause an incomplete thought
tricolon
affable
arbiter
dependent clause
30. Dispersed throughout
anthropomorphism
cohesive
pervasive
patronizing
31. A verb ending in 'ing' that serves as a noun
gerund
discourse
bandwagon
connotation
32. Rotten
putrid
tenuous
distractor
cause and effect
33. To put up with; to survive a hardship
prudent
malfeasance
poisoning the well
endure
34. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
anadiplosis
pathos
rational
sonorous
35. Making one idea more dramatic by placing it next to its opposite
juxtaposition
pathos
etymology
simple sentence
36. A failure of logical reasoning
disdain
fallacy
metaphor
acquired
37. To regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
biased
intrepid
pervasive
disdain
38. Also called a noun phrase - this modifies the noun next to it
ambivalent
inherent
personification
appositive
39. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
astute
participle
objectivity
stoic
40. Intense enthusiasm
obdurate
deleterious
propitious
ebullience
41. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
appositive
conflagration
torpor
listless
42. Relatively unknown
compound sentence
compelling
obscure
description
43. Extreme ill-will or spite
malice
poignant
spurious
ruse
44. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
putrid
pragmatic
propitious
45. Feeling hatred; scornful
quandary
stem
contemptuous
clarity
46. Difficult to comprehend
cryptic
stem
serene
quandary
47. Producing a deep or full sound
brusque
meticulous
intrepid
sonorous
48. Shrewd; clever
astute
objectivity
melancholy
benign
49. The basic message or meaning conveyed through elements of character and conflict; appears often in literature and is paralleled in nonfiction prose by an argument's thesis
ingrate
inherent
theme
genre
50. A descriptive chronology of the stages in the development of a process
process analysis
allusion
fluid
medieval