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AP English Vocab
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1. To consider perfect
ambivalent
omnipotent
didactic
idealize
2. Favorable; promising
tenuous
sanction
pragmatic
auspicious
3. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
penitent
florid
conception
anthology
4. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
malice
impression
malleable
inconsequential
5. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
proliferate
facile
disdain
dictatorial
6. Menacing; threatening
mundane
plagiarism
parallelism
ominous
7. Contempt - scorn - to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
disparage
torpor
apparatus
disdain
8. Easy-going; friendly
trivial
benign
surreptitiously
affable
9. A group organized by rank
melancholy
hierarchy
meticulous
assertion
10. Coming into existence; emerging
pejorative
nascent
idealize
arid
11. Shrewd; clever
disingenuous
astute
coup
impinge
12. Proper; marked by good taste
staid
obdurate
decorous
malfeasance
13. Insulting in manner or speech
conflagration
enmity
insolent
innate
14. The act of suggesting or hinting
anachronism
implication
factious
spurious
15. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
elusive
parallelism
propitious
incorrigible
16. Feeling or showing little emotion
melancholy
apathetic
condemn
archetype
17. A tremendously skilled artist
anachronism
wary
alliance
virtuoso
18. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
contemporary
equanimity
surreptitiously
chiasmus
19. To absorb; to make similar
assimilation
tenacity
trivial
serene
20. A feeling about the future
premonition
anachronism
ruse
trivial
21. Extremely dull
profound
ponderous
ebullience
lucid
22. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action
apprehension
obstinate
candor
brittle
23. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
anthropomorphism
slander
laudatory
brittle
24. All-powerful
parallelism
omnipotent
hierarchy
mural
25. Fear - apprehension
trepidation
discredit
apology
genre
26. Well-meaning; generous
contemporary
benevolent
permeated
phenomenon
27. General agreement
transient
stratagem
embellish
consensus
28. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
poignant
eclectic
maverick
incorrigible
29. Referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
alliance
biased
medieval
acquired
30. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
mediocrity
disdain
medieval
parody
31. To restrain; to hold back
vitality
subdue
inherent
acquired
32. Unimportant
metonymy
facetious
inconsequential
substantiated
33. Calm
consensus
misconception
serene
insipid
34. Lacking energy
paradigm
listless
trepidation
cohesive
35. Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
parody
apposition
dogmatic
anthology
36. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
incumbent
candor
anachronism
derived
37. To give official authorization or approval
sanction
capricious
substantiated
endure
38. Not able to be denied or disputed
despotic
incontrovertible
ornate
substantiated
39. An example or model
alleviate
excerpt
insipid
paradigm
40. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
trepidation
permeated
plausible
fabricated
41. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
inherent
apposition
disdain
rhetoric
42. Dispersed throughout
novel
realism
malleable
pervasive
43. Sincerity; openness
candor
inherent
medieval
nocturnal
44. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
medley
embellish
intuition
exemplary
45. A declaration or statement
realism
vitality
assertion
fluid
46. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
wary
panegyric
lexicon
modest
47. To make an itemized list of
catalog (v.)
disingenuous
flagrant
capricious
48. Treating in a condescending manner
transitory
implication
torpor
patronizing
49. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
gratuitous
alliance
cohesive
malice
50. Wrongdoing - misconduct
malfeasance
realism
mundane
proliferate