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AP English Vocab
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english
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ap
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Easy-going; friendly
affable
consensus
reprehensible
impede
2. Short-lived or temporary
transitory
parody
virtuoso
panegyric
3. Responsive; agreeable
innovative
amenable
opulent
truncated
4. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
gratuitous
tenuous
transient
heinous
5. To give official authorization or approval
maverick
modest
dogmatic
sanction
6. To leave one country or region and settle in another
condemn
emigrate
apparatus
inevitable
7. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
substantiated
pervasive
pugnacious
sonorous
8. Commonplace; ordinary
mundane
asylum
meticulous
florid
9. To calm or soothe
narrative
patronizing
florid
mollify
10. Making gestures while speaking
gesticulating
impartial
suppressed
ornate
11. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
inherent
solvent
sonorous
elusive
12. Having little substance or strength
caustic
tenuous
pragmatic
intuition
13. Enormous
prodigious
transient
ebullience
indifferent
14. Good will between friends
gratuitous
caustic
biased
camaraderie
15. Wrongdoing - misconduct
fastidious
austere
malfeasance
conflagration
16. Copied or adapted from a source
hypothetical
putrid
derived
copious
17. Well-meaning; generous
derived
stratagem
vilify
benevolent
18. Of or occurring in the night; under cover of darkness
nocturnal
context
novel
austere
19. Not migratory; settled
inherent
sedentary
indolent
alliance
20. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
tenuous
pernicious
incumbent
virtuoso
21. Conspicuously bad or offensive
servile
egregious
apology
misconception
22. Circumstances of a situation; environment
tenacity
frenetic
context
abstract
23. Stubbornly persevering
dogged
timorous
suppressed
pernicious
24. Awareness; insight
perception
auspicious
staid
quandary
25. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
slander
auspicious
propriety
malfeasance
26. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
opulent
intrepid
exculpate
objectivity
27. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
diligent
wily
asylum
maverick
28. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
substantiated
facile
archetype
pragmatic
29. Worthy of blame
florid
reprehensible
replete
timorous
30. General agreement
facetious
impression
brittle
consensus
31. Mutual hatred or ill-will
exculpate
disparage
compelling
enmity
32. Feeling or showing little emotion
apathetic
apology
coup
elusive
33. To consider perfect
idealize
pejorative
venerated
parallelism
34. Relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct
eloquence
poignant
obscure
intuition
35. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
tenacity
imperious
deleterious
ominous
36. A place of retreat or security
fluid
benign
asylum
nocturnal
37. Timid; fearful about the future
transitory
timorous
endure
compelling
38. Existing only as an assumption or speculation
assimilation
exemplary
arbitrary
hypothetical
39. Made; concocted to deceive
wily
archetype
pervasive
fabricated
40. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
facetious
cohesive
dogged
inveterate
41. Practical
pragmatic
novel
apposition
whimsical
42. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
genre
biased
stoic
43. Intense enthusiasm
comprehensive
ebullience
virtuoso
dictatorial
44. Bound to happen; unavoidable
hypothetical
melancholy
inevitable
spontaneous
45. Severely critical or sarcastic
convoluted
caustic
gratuitous
endure
46. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
dogged
rhetoric
mediocrity
amenable
47. Hard-working
inevitable
assiduous
replete
plausible
48. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
eclectic
ambivalent
notorious
endure
49. Submissive; like a servant
tenuous
idealize
servile
transitory
50. Appropriateness of behavior
replete
apology
putrid
propriety