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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
perspective
laudatory
caustic
2. Wrongdoing - misconduct
novel
staid
malfeasance
asylum
3. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
plagiarism
incorrigible
arbiter
prosaic
4. Feeling or showing little emotion
apathetic
anthropomorphism
malleable
context
5. Not migratory; settled
assimilation
gratuitous
sedentary
intrepid
6. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action
obstinate
surreptitiously
assertion
cohesive
7. Submissive; like a servant
cogent
egregious
servile
venerated
8. Hard-working
facile
assiduous
candor
didactic
9. Possessing carefull attention to detail; difficult to please
lucid
fastidious
conception
penitent
10. Closeness
oxymoron
discourse
deleterious
proximity
11. Extreme ill-will or spite
discredit
innate
malice
medley
12. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
intrepid
transient
prodigious
ingrate
13. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
dilettante
embellish
profound
brittle
14. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
transitory
inveterate
assimilation
condemn
15. Lazy
mundane
substantiated
vindicated
indolent
16. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
catalog (v.)
equanimity
permeated
poignant
17. Unemotional; serious
period
staid
embellish
excerpt
18. Well-meaning; generous
cordial
benevolent
perspective
mundane
19. Inborn; built-in
impede
whimsical
frank
inherent
20. Stubbornly persevering
condescending
poignant
dogged
plagiarism
21. Referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
medieval
dilettante
chiasmus
lament
22. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
elusive
disparage
frank
enlightening
23. Conspicuously bad or offensive
frenetic
mediocrity
egregious
nascent
24. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
innate
chiasmus
archaic
replete
25. Responsive; agreeable
diligent
amenable
astute
caustic
26. To avoid making a definite statement
disingenuous
caustic
equivocate
impartial
27. Not applied to actual objects
abstract
replete
impede
stoic
28. Rotten
putrid
incontrovertible
wily
heinous
29. A declaration or statement
modest
alleviate
solvent
assertion
30. Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
abstract
dogmatic
mediocrity
prodigious
31. Awareness; insight
metonymy
perception
proliferate
fluid
32. An ungrateful person
ingrate
eloquence
profound
flagrant
33. Proper; marked by good taste
decorous
hackneyed
ample
modest
34. Courageous; fearless; bold
enlightening
intrepid
sanction
conflagration
35. A judge who decides a disputed issue
diligent
objectivity
arbiter
obstinate
36. Kind and gentle
asylum
naive
futile
benign
37. Contempt - scorn - to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
superfluous
integrity
apposition
disdain
38. Relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct
arbitrary
staid
obscure
rancorous
39. A beginner
novice
ambivalent
contemporary
pragmatic
40. To consider perfect
idealize
meticulous
anthology
oxymoron
41. Giving praise
rational
pejorative
mediocrity
laudatory
42. Able to pay one's debts
solvent
venerated
eclectic
convoluted
43. Calm
meticulous
diligent
serene
arid
44. Long - complex - grammatically correct sentence
arid
cogent
period
sanction
45. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
hypothetical
innovative
plausible
patronizing
46. Stubborn; inflexible
hackneyed
obdurate
torpor
effusive
47. General agreement
disingenuous
replete
apprehension
consensus
48. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
paradigm
integrity
perception
dubious
49. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
propitious
anachronism
listless
servile
50. Timid; fearful about the future
intrepid
reprehensible
facile
timorous