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AP English Vocab
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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. Sincerity; openness
malice
ambiguous
candor
indifferent
2. Energy; power to survive
prosaic
hypocrisy
paradigm
vitality
3. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
imperious
diligent
wary
condemn
4. Describing a showy or pretentious display
affable
incontrovertible
medley
ostentatious
5. Menacing; threatening
premonition
ample
synecdoche
ominous
6. Lazy
condescending
apprehension
lament
indolent
7. To make vicious statements about
vilify
ebullience
anthropomorphism
parallelism
8. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
rancorous
sanction
nocturnal
brittle
9. Quarrelsome
factious
ambivalent
nascent
benevolent
10. Hard-working
assiduous
affable
exculpate
solvent
11. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
sardonic
substantiated
proliferate
alleviate
12. A union of two or more groups
alliance
contemporary
indifferent
listless
13. Equipment; a group of machines
comprehensive
prodigious
gesticulating
apparatus
14. Persistence
tenacity
staid
gesticulating
plagiarism
15. Characterized by the telling of a story
idealize
syllogism
deleterious
narrative
16. Defense of an idea
apology
inconsequential
brittle
medieval
17. Statement of high praise
profound
panegyric
parody
excerpt
18. Courageous; fearless; bold
chiasmus
intrepid
alliance
hackneyed
19. Easy-going; friendly
intuition
frank
affable
inveterate
20. Dispersed throughout
trepidation
florid
listless
pervasive
21. Open to more than one interpretation
alleviate
patronizing
novice
ambiguous
22. Submissive; like a servant
facile
alleviate
servile
reprehensible
23. Short-lived or temporary
eclectic
narrative
excerpt
transitory
24. Combative; belligerent
toxic
ample
nocturnal
pugnacious
25. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
incumbent
coherent
brusque
26. Not caring one way or the other
proliferate
dilettante
indifferent
theoretical
27. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
inherent
insolent
sonorous
dilettante
28. A grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used
parallelism
spurious
cohesive
facile
29. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
quandary
transitory
auspicious
apposition
30. Circumstances of a situation; environment
omnipotent
context
idealize
wily
31. An economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
slander
dubious
equivocate
sanction
32. Playfully humorous
melancholy
facetious
wary
compelling
33. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
penitent
gesticulating
intuition
lucid
34. Extreme ill-will or spite
dubious
apprehension
cryptic
malice
35. General agreement
consensus
benevolent
omnipotent
ebullience
36. Responsive; agreeable
obstinate
futile
amenable
oxymoron
37. Treating in a condescending manner
derived
enmity
substantiated
patronizing
38. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
hypocrisy
malleable
rhetoric
period
39. Referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
disdain
medieval
rancorous
fluid
40. An unusual - observable event
archaic
gratuitous
phenomenon
obscure
41. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
context
medley
transitory
facile
42. Practical
pragmatic
maverick
implication
auspicious
43. Possessing carefull attention to detail; difficult to please
fastidious
conception
proliferate
diligent
44. Not migratory; settled
obdurate
condescending
sedentary
whimsical
45. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
sanction
intuition
objectivity
imperious
46. Existing only as an assumption or speculation
discredit
hypothetical
apparatus
pervasive
47. Favorable; promising
archaic
pragmatic
auspicious
cogent
48. Stubborn; inflexible
obdurate
pervasive
spontaneous
discourse
49. Secretive
candor
clandestine
tenacity
sardonic
50. To make an itemized list of
intuition
fabricated
catalog (v.)
propitious