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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. Friendly; sincere
hackneyed
affable
cordial
vindicated
2. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
superficial
equivocate
lucid
lament
3. Open to more than one interpretation
whimsical
ambiguous
cohesive
apathetic
4. Extremely careful and precise
clandestine
discourse
medley
meticulous
5. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
virtuoso
gratuitous
ambivalent
context
6. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
hypocrisy
apprehension
pejorative
deleterious
7. Combative; belligerent
frank
obsolete
pugnacious
lexicon
8. Made; concocted to deceive
deleterious
penitent
vilify
fabricated
9. To make an itemized list of
rational
mural
catalog (v.)
dogmatic
10. Lacking energy
apprehension
listless
sanction
discredit
11. A beginner
implication
intuition
harbinger
novice
12. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
equanimity
servile
inevitable
coherent
13. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
fastidious
inevitable
caustic
facile
14. Elaborately decorated
misconception
ornate
frank
theoretical
15. Able to pay one's debts
solvent
patronizing
spontaneous
notorious
16. Insulting in manner or speech
dogged
camaraderie
anachronism
insolent
17. Calm
sedentary
serene
dogged
theoretical
18. Submissive; like a servant
consensus
propitious
dogged
servile
19. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
ambivalent
replete
plausible
servile
20. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
frank
capricious
abstract
superfluous
21. The act of suggesting or hinting
malice
implication
vindicated
intrepid
22. Sadness; depression
tenuous
proximity
melancholy
coherent
23. An apparent contradiction of terms
stoic
objectivity
medley
oxymoron
24. Current - modern; from the same time
disparity
arbiter
hackneyed
contemporary
25. To make vicious statements about
chiasmus
astute
phenomenon
vilify
26. Secretive
clandestine
plagiarism
inevitable
ambiguous
27. Having little substance or strength
virtuoso
didactic
tenuous
notorious
28. Shortened; cut off
truncated
contemporary
innovative
nocturnal
29. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
conception
idealize
misconception
transient
30. Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
putrid
dogmatic
idealize
period
31. To calm or soothe
clandestine
mollify
arbiter
dilettante
32. Intense enthusiasm
exculpate
ebullience
fluid
ponderous
33. Having great depth or seriousness
rhetoric
gratuitous
melancholy
profound
34. To cause to be doubted
spurious
incumbent
discredit
asylum
35. Large in scope or content
archetype
comprehensive
pugnacious
catalog (v.)
36. Long - complex - grammatically correct sentence
period
sanction
alleviate
affable
37. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
idealize
hypocrisy
caustic
suppressed
38. On guard
assimilation
wary
notorious
cogent
39. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
mural
propriety
aesthetic
hypothetical
40. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
pervasive
impartial
egregious
indifferent
41. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
asylum
alienated
whimsical
conflagration
42. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
sanction
misconception
proximity
prodigious
43. Determined by impulse rather than reason
eclectic
venerated
arbitrary
condescending
44. Possessed at birth; inborn
innate
malice
reprehensible
superficial
45. A widespread fire
medley
proliferate
anachronism
conflagration
46. Condition of sticking together
condemn
cohesive
inveterate
discourse
47. Enormous
theoretical
prosaic
prodigious
equivocate
48. To ease a pain or burden
paramount
narrative
alleviate
derived
49. Easily understood; clear
lucid
indifferent
stoic
intuition
50. Proper; marked by good taste
brusque
compelling
decorous
plausible