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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. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
eclectic
malleable
spurious
ingrate
2. Short-lived or temporary
tenuous
transitory
surreptitiously
archetype
3. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
intrepid
spurious
equanimity
coup
4. Timid; fearful about the future
timorous
hierarchy
intrepid
patronizing
5. Uninteresting; unchallenging
conception
inconsequential
arbiter
insipid
6. A grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used
solvent
parallelism
mural
slander
7. Easily flowing
putrid
fluid
realism
discourse
8. Describing a large amount of something
gratuitous
virtuoso
apprehension
ample
9. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
sonorous
substantiated
inherent
oxymoron
10. To make an itemized list of
context
catalog (v.)
spurious
sedentary
11. Informative; contributing to one's awareness
convoluted
enlightening
disparity
substantiated
12. Wrongdoing - misconduct
gesticulating
malfeasance
servile
compelling
13. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
maverick
embellish
obstinate
florid
14. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
venerated
integrity
discourse
whimsical
15. Existing only as an assumption or speculation
archaic
cryptic
contemptuous
hypothetical
16. To ease a pain or burden
cogent
sedentary
disparity
alleviate
17. To leave one country or region and settle in another
stratagem
exemplary
integrity
emigrate
18. Proper; marked by good taste
equanimity
decorous
biased
inconsequential
19. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
replete
alleviate
mural
decorous
20. Feeling hatred; scornful
apposition
contemptuous
virtuoso
period
21. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
astute
plausible
compelling
reprehensible
22. Point of view
assiduous
tenuous
malleable
perspective
23. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
rancorous
paramount
equivocate
caustic
24. An economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
coherent
sanction
meticulous
apparatus
25. Statement of high praise
conception
surreptitiously
toxic
panegyric
26. The ability to form or understand an idea
enlightening
disparity
candor
conception
27. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
coherent
abstract
superfluous
28. Easy-going; friendly
facile
dilettante
affable
trivial
29. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
comprehensive
obsolete
mediocrity
ostentatious
30. Kind and gentle
synecdoche
coup
inveterate
benign
31. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
premonition
facile
quandary
sanction
32. Stubborn; inflexible
obdurate
listless
plausible
oxymoron
33. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
alienated
condemn
frank
genre
34. Having little substance or strength
tenuous
hackneyed
discourse
spurious
35. Playfully humorous
facetious
coup
compelling
caustic
36. A union of two or more groups
vitality
alliance
indifferent
incorrigible
37. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
astute
inconsequential
medley
heinous
38. Submissive; like a servant
cryptic
torpor
servile
endure
39. A group organized by rank
hierarchy
pragmatic
coherent
meticulous
40. Not genuine
theoretical
realism
spurious
subdue
41. Unimportant
equivocate
copious
inconsequential
contemporary
42. Severely critical or sarcastic
maverick
disingenuous
caustic
facetious
43. A declaration or statement
superfluous
assertion
chiasmus
context
44. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
despotic
torpor
paramount
disingenuous
45. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
ponderous
convoluted
anachronism
parody
46. Giving praise
vitality
frank
laudatory
endure
47. Shrewd; clever
impede
astute
integrity
conflagration
48. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
slander
perspective
transitory
auspicious
49. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
profound
archetype
inveterate
truncated
50. Treating in a condescending manner
transient
imperious
patronizing
exemplary