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AP English Vocab
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Energy; power to survive
transient
frenetic
stoic
vitality
2. Not straightforward; crafty
disingenuous
dogmatic
proliferate
pernicious
3. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
lucid
context
alleviate
transient
4. A type of figurative language in which one term is substituted for another term with which it is closely associated
metonymy
cohesive
excerpt
mundane
5. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
tenuous
hypocrisy
contemptuous
theoretical
6. An apparent contradiction of terms
synecdoche
oxymoron
objectivity
futile
7. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
perspective
listless
lexicon
misconception
8. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
ingrate
factious
stoic
florid
9. To calm or soothe
mollify
apprehension
quandary
consensus
10. Practical
pragmatic
implication
inherent
archetype
11. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
copious
brittle
nocturnal
condemn
12. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
malleable
wily
trivial
13. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
propriety
superfluous
ruse
elusive
14. Worn out through overuse; trite
camaraderie
emigrate
prodigious
hackneyed
15. Equipment; a group of machines
hackneyed
cogent
apparatus
despotic
16. To grow or increase rapidly
coup
synecdoche
proliferate
caustic
17. Proper; marked by good taste
decorous
wary
meticulous
alienated
18. To give official authorization or approval
affable
elusive
sanction
ebullience
19. Lacking application or practical application
ponderous
laudatory
capricious
theoretical
20. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
rancorous
brusque
fabricated
embellish
21. Statement of high praise
insipid
panegyric
pernicious
ambivalent
22. Hinder; interfere with
proximity
novice
impinge
rhetoric
23. Playfully humorous
prosaic
implication
torpor
facetious
24. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arid
superficial
panegyric
arbitrary
25. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
wily
deleterious
putrid
flagrant
26. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
archaic
whimsical
disingenuous
archetype
27. Secretive
apparatus
clandestine
arbiter
comprehensive
28. Feeling hatred; scornful
lucid
apprehension
contemptuous
elusive
29. Commonplace; ordinary
reclamation
mundane
condemn
superfluous
30. An ungrateful person
poignant
ingrate
context
arid
31. Prejudiced
biased
patronizing
rancorous
objectivity
32. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
pervasive
hackneyed
parody
slander
33. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
rational
astute
inconsequential
heinous
34. A tremendously skilled artist
austere
ebullience
virtuoso
ambiguous
35. Intended to instruct
astute
theoretical
didactic
genre
36. Trustworthiness; completeness
virtuoso
decorous
eloquence
integrity
37. Intricate; complex
heinous
apology
metonymy
convoluted
38. Kind and gentle
obsolete
benign
assimilation
fluid
39. Unemotional; serious
anthropomorphism
proliferate
narrative
staid
40. Wrongdoing - misconduct
candor
integrity
propitious
malfeasance
41. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
panegyric
discourse
fabricated
syllogism
42. A union of two or more groups
alliance
comprehensive
arbiter
parallelism
43. Having no useful purpose; pointless
futile
melancholy
compelling
flagrant
44. Condition of sticking together
reclamation
dogged
maverick
cohesive
45. Sadness; depression
syllogism
copious
omnipotent
melancholy
46. Unimportant
contemptuous
staid
incorrigible
inconsequential
47. Uninteresting; unchallenging
insipid
slander
conception
inherent
48. To absorb; to make similar
assimilation
effusive
caustic
novel
49. Able to pay one's debts
solvent
didactic
intuition
discredit
50. To slow the progress of
nocturnal
impression
impede
indolent