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AP English Vocab
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1. Sincerity; openness
discourse
inherent
abstract
candor
2. Not migratory; settled
sedentary
perspective
equanimity
effusive
3. The attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects - animals - or forces of nature
exculpate
anthropomorphism
sedentary
listless
4. Practical
pragmatic
genre
intuition
benign
5. Giving praise
prosaic
patronizing
laudatory
insipid
6. Describing a showy or pretentious display
ostentatious
paradigm
trepidation
equivocate
7. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
notorious
archaic
conviction
enlightening
8. Prejudiced
conception
biased
dogmatic
profound
9. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
fastidious
dubious
diligent
equivocate
10. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
stratagem
comprehensive
despotic
imperious
11. Severely critical or sarcastic
pervasive
caustic
obscure
serene
12. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
eloquence
diligent
parallelism
enlightening
13. Intense enthusiasm
tenacity
poignant
paradigm
ebullience
14. Having great depth or seriousness
profound
enmity
ruse
subdue
15. Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
dogmatic
derived
tenacity
stoic
16. Done by secretive means
ambiguous
impression
surreptitiously
coherent
17. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
solvent
compelling
malleable
wary
18. Incapable of being reformed
incorrigible
facile
obdurate
ebullience
19. Feeling hatred; scornful
contemptuous
affable
maverick
frank
20. To slow the progress of
impede
innate
assertion
capricious
21. Of little substance or significance
dogmatic
trivial
mediocrity
incontrovertible
22. A feeling about the future
premonition
vilify
abstract
listless
23. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
superficial
quandary
vilify
slander
24. Plentiful; having a large quantity
copious
harbinger
indolent
gratuitous
25. A declaration or statement
acquired
assertion
superfluous
effusive
26. Determined by impulse rather than reason
cohesive
gratuitous
incumbent
arbitrary
27. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
candor
vindicated
exemplary
28. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
fabricated
conviction
stratagem
narrative
29. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
dilettante
opulent
prosaic
dictatorial
30. All-powerful
omnipotent
proliferate
proximity
listless
31. Mutual hatred or ill-will
conviction
perspective
enmity
brittle
32. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
arbiter
incumbent
dilettante
mundane
33. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
eclectic
penitent
trivial
discredit
34. Characterized by the telling of a story
mediocrity
narrative
transitory
mollify
35. Anxiety or fear about the future
theoretical
camaraderie
implication
apprehension
36. Highly respected
venerated
austere
frenetic
conception
37. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
discourse
cohesive
notorious
wily
38. Difficult to comprehend
obsolete
coherent
hypocrisy
cryptic
39. A widespread fire
conflagration
heinous
incorrigible
novel
40. A grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used
apparatus
panegyric
ominous
parallelism
41. The ability to form or understand an idea
mundane
conception
gratuitous
embellish
42. A tremendously skilled artist
innate
spurious
virtuoso
theoretical
43. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
facile
disdain
frank
incumbent
44. Trustworthiness; completeness
prodigious
context
integrity
haughty
45. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
lexicon
disparage
panegyric
apposition
46. Extra; unnecessary
proximity
wary
arid
superfluous
47. To give official authorization or approval
genre
disparage
sanction
fabricated
48. Friendly; sincere
oxymoron
chiasmus
discourse
cordial
49. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
virtuoso
imperious
elusive
substantiated
50. Awareness; insight
tenuous
superfluous
vilify
perception