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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. Difficult to comprehend
factious
cryptic
lament
meticulous
2. A grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used
caustic
parallelism
ebullience
copious
3. A union of two or more groups
pervasive
harbinger
obdurate
alliance
4. Closeness
genre
florid
stratagem
proximity
5. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
superficial
naive
didactic
solvent
6. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
timorous
incorrigible
vilify
incumbent
7. Feeling or showing little emotion
inherent
apathetic
maverick
impede
8. Describing a large amount of something
ample
perspective
pugnacious
caustic
9. Relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct
modest
benign
sardonic
obscure
10. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
elusive
equanimity
arbiter
enlightening
11. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
brusque
implication
nocturnal
12. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
timorous
stoic
transient
parody
13. On guard
endure
suppressed
wary
benign
14. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
emigrate
stoic
whimsical
vilify
15. A widespread fire
conflagration
benevolent
hierarchy
superfluous
16. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
pragmatic
panegyric
elusive
facile
17. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
synecdoche
prodigious
impartial
endure
18. Having a harmful effect; injurious
deleterious
dogged
obscure
ornate
19. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
brittle
ample
premonition
benign
20. Friendly; sincere
asylum
acquired
prudent
cordial
21. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
fastidious
modest
imperious
acquired
22. Causing great harm
dogmatic
pervasive
pernicious
obdurate
23. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
whimsical
tenuous
embellish
innate
24. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
staid
cryptic
dogmatic
25. To slow the progress of
syllogism
proximity
impede
transient
26. Developed or learned; not naturally occuring
propriety
cryptic
hypothetical
acquired
27. Convincing; reasonable
intrepid
ambivalent
cogent
paramount
28. Commonplace; ordinary
context
laudatory
insipid
mundane
29. Of or occurring in the night; under cover of darkness
spurious
nocturnal
reclamation
innovative
30. A word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary
aesthetic
elusive
lexicon
superficial
31. Determined by impulse rather than reason
coherent
arbitrary
medieval
indolent
32. Shortened; cut off
spontaneous
derived
mollify
truncated
33. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
mundane
haughty
archaic
archetype
34. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
contemptuous
parody
ambivalent
aesthetic
35. Anxiety or fear about the future
benign
apprehension
listless
virtuoso
36. Dispersed throughout
amenable
pervasive
alienated
trivial
37. Done by secretive means
contemporary
hypocrisy
dubious
surreptitiously
38. A form of deductive reasoning: a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
anthology
plausible
syllogism
synecdoche
39. Lazy
indolent
disdain
ambivalent
impede
40. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
cogent
pragmatic
rancorous
sanction
41. Quarrelsome
ingrate
frank
apology
factious
42. Rotten
putrid
ostentatious
surreptitiously
genre
43. Unemotional; serious
equanimity
impinge
profound
staid
44. Enormous
prodigious
caustic
mollify
elusive
45. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
diligent
brusque
serene
harbinger
46. Possessing carefull attention to detail; difficult to please
fastidious
toxic
didactic
ample
47. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
deleterious
eclectic
disparage
imperious
48. To free from guilt or blame
objectivity
exculpate
sedentary
parallelism
49. Unplanned; naturally occurring
disdain
syllogism
spontaneous
novel
50. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
realism
parody
conviction
perception