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AP English Vocab
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1. Without decoration; strict
hierarchy
pervasive
ornate
austere
2. A word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary
nocturnal
indolent
lexicon
cordial
3. An inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
despotic
chiasmus
inconsequential
innovative
4. To calm or soothe
vindicated
nocturnal
mollify
auspicious
5. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
despotic
elusive
facile
pugnacious
6. Relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct
camaraderie
disdain
obscure
exculpate
7. To put up with; to survive a hardship
impartial
apparatus
endure
medley
8. Circumstances of a situation; environment
exculpate
ambivalent
context
panegyric
9. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
medley
indifferent
transient
imperious
10. Sadness; depression
contemptuous
notorious
melancholy
lament
11. Possessing carefull attention to detail; difficult to please
convoluted
fastidious
pervasive
incontrovertible
12. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
mundane
malfeasance
eloquence
implication
13. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
perspective
despotic
notorious
haughty
14. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
alleviate
condescending
apology
substantiated
15. Combative; belligerent
copious
inveterate
pugnacious
suppressed
16. Appropriateness of behavior
propriety
mediocrity
derived
stoic
17. Rudely abrupt
context
brusque
reclamation
gratuitous
18. A selected part of a passage or scene
excerpt
innovative
cohesive
disingenuous
19. Spread or flowing throughout
wary
permeated
arbitrary
contemptuous
20. Stubbornly persevering
compelling
dogged
reprehensible
arbiter
21. Contempt - scorn - to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
facile
conception
parallelism
disdain
22. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
dogged
profound
stoic
slander
23. Able to pay one's debts
assimilation
solvent
derived
proliferate
24. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
ostentatious
sardonic
misconception
omnipotent
25. Characterized by the telling of a story
prosaic
anthropomorphism
disparage
narrative
26. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
condemn
enlightening
prodigious
apposition
27. Not migratory; settled
sedentary
phenomenon
obdurate
poignant
28. Inborn; built-in
diligent
oxymoron
disingenuous
inherent
29. Proper; marked by good taste
incumbent
caustic
impression
decorous
30. No longer in use; old-fashioned
lexicon
obsolete
surreptitiously
paramount
31. Quarrelsome
implication
factious
clandestine
mediocrity
32. To absorb; to make similar
realism
intrepid
pejorative
assimilation
33. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
poignant
anthology
brusque
despotic
34. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
malleable
surreptitiously
maverick
chiasmus
35. Worthy of blame
gratuitous
reprehensible
incontrovertible
vindicated
36. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family - or homeland)
virtuoso
acquired
venerated
alienated
37. Practical
archaic
apparatus
pragmatic
narrative
38. Well-meaning; generous
syllogism
anthropomorphism
ponderous
benevolent
39. A group organized by rank
opulent
pejorative
conflagration
hierarchy
40. Conspicuously bad or offensive
elusive
egregious
facile
sanction
41. A declaration or statement
conviction
assertion
comprehensive
toxic
42. Subdued; kept from being circulated
candor
pervasive
whimsical
suppressed
43. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
rational
clandestine
reclamation
servile
44. Copied or adapted from a source
timorous
derived
poignant
catalog (v.)
45. Something out of place in time or sequence
cryptic
clandestine
apprehension
anachronism
46. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
servile
catalog (v.)
condemn
indolent
47. Uninteresting; unchallenging
assiduous
sanction
cohesive
insipid
48. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
malfeasance
flagrant
frank
arbitrary
49. Commendable; worthy of imitation
exemplary
rhetoric
objectivity
theoretical
50. To avoid making a definite statement
perspective
equivocate
abstract
idealize