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AP English Vocab
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1. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
perspective
proliferate
novice
propitious
2. Wrongdoing - misconduct
period
impede
malfeasance
sanction
3. Unimaginative; dull
permeated
prosaic
lexicon
pugnacious
4. To give official authorization or approval
anthology
sanction
torpor
realism
5. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
haughty
slander
impartial
medley
6. A declaration or statement
copious
omnipotent
assertion
apology
7. Developed or learned; not naturally occuring
discredit
acquired
genre
coherent
8. Dispersed throughout
pervasive
obdurate
biased
obstinate
9. Statement of high praise
arbiter
panegyric
implication
discredit
10. Causing great harm
ambivalent
ornate
pernicious
profound
11. Treating people as weak or inferior
rhetoric
didactic
florid
condescending
12. Point of view
wily
innovative
wary
perspective
13. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
mural
inveterate
harbinger
dogged
14. Proper; marked by good taste
brittle
decorous
obstinate
medieval
15. Shrewd; clever
surreptitiously
astute
excerpt
cordial
16. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
penitent
condemn
objectivity
wily
17. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
amenable
inveterate
equivocate
astute
18. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
superficial
obscure
metonymy
19. Made; concocted to deceive
gratuitous
ponderous
melancholy
fabricated
20. A selected part of a passage or scene
coherent
excerpt
idealize
permeated
21. The attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects - animals - or forces of nature
endure
panegyric
anthropomorphism
plagiarism
22. Bound to happen; unavoidable
modest
inevitable
malleable
excerpt
23. Responsive; agreeable
amenable
acquired
eclectic
venerated
24. Having great depth or seriousness
quandary
profound
ebullience
trepidation
25. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
malfeasance
anachronism
dilettante
vilify
26. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
plausible
didactic
objectivity
intuition
27. A fixed or strong belief
affable
obdurate
vilify
conviction
28. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arbitrary
torpor
listless
opulent
29. Having a harmful effect; injurious
oxymoron
consensus
deleterious
enlightening
30. Without decoration; strict
servile
austere
coherent
substantiated
31. An example or model
pragmatic
inconsequential
paradigm
realism
32. Favorable; promising
auspicious
venerated
transient
penitent
33. Shortened; cut off
truncated
idealize
spontaneous
convoluted
34. A form of deductive reasoning: a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
exculpate
syllogism
facile
misconception
35. Circumstances of a situation; environment
gratuitous
consensus
context
assimilation
36. Intricate; complex
anthology
equanimity
exculpate
convoluted
37. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
compelling
diligent
putrid
asylum
38. Treating in a condescending manner
patronizing
premonition
torpor
gesticulating
39. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
emigrate
timorous
austere
superficial
40. Something out of place in time or sequence
spurious
intuition
condemn
anachronism
41. Not straightforward; crafty
prodigious
disingenuous
naive
inveterate
42. Hatefully evil; abominable
auspicious
maverick
heinous
putrid
43. Commendable; worthy of imitation
chiasmus
exemplary
disdain
poignant
44. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
diligent
astute
archaic
pugnacious
45. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family - or homeland)
alienated
toxic
transitory
discourse
46. Courageous; fearless; bold
intrepid
contemporary
suppressed
putrid
47. Anxiety or fear about the future
whimsical
conflagration
derived
apprehension
48. Lacking sophistication or experience
venerated
tenuous
pernicious
naive
49. Lazy
objectivity
ornate
exculpate
indolent
50. No longer in use; old-fashioned
innovative
obsolete
contemptuous
aesthetic