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AP English Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
narrative
parody
contemporary
facile
2. Practical
conflagration
pragmatic
omnipotent
conception
3. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
obdurate
florid
pejorative
alliance
4. Sincerity; openness
candor
spontaneous
cogent
apology
5. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
ruse
prudent
quandary
elusive
6. Having a harmful effect; injurious
ingrate
inherent
deleterious
asylum
7. A form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole
synecdoche
context
disdain
maverick
8. Energy; power to survive
clandestine
vitality
impinge
factious
9. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
substantiated
convoluted
frenetic
realism
10. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
ornate
discourse
lament
penitent
11. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
pervasive
gratuitous
timorous
laudatory
12. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
phenomenon
excerpt
innovative
13. Relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct
oxymoron
obscure
paradigm
lament
14. Describing a dry - rainless climate
disparity
arid
impinge
apology
15. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
inveterate
dogged
harbinger
florid
16. Severely critical or sarcastic
archetype
caustic
period
modest
17. Worthy of blame
ambivalent
candor
notorious
reprehensible
18. Persistence
proliferate
tenacity
consensus
impinge
19. Determined by impulse rather than reason
tenacity
copious
arbitrary
realism
20. Causing great harm
hypocrisy
dilettante
pernicious
rancorous
21. A brilliantly executed plan
prudent
catalog (v.)
superficial
coup
22. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
sanction
capricious
pervasive
dictatorial
23. A declaration or statement
disdain
camaraderie
conflagration
assertion
24. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
torpor
apparatus
consensus
sonorous
25. Feeling hatred; scornful
enlightening
contemptuous
lexicon
inevitable
26. Disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh - bitter - or caustic
stratagem
ingrate
vindicated
sardonic
27. Statement of high praise
panegyric
truncated
futile
coup
28. The act of making something useful again
reclamation
dilettante
heinous
candor
29. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
hypocrisy
incumbent
opulent
disparage
30. Treating in a condescending manner
affable
inherent
patronizing
disparage
31. Describing a showy or pretentious display
ostentatious
penitent
paramount
parody
32. Extremely careful and precise
fabricated
meticulous
substantiated
prudent
33. An economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
context
ambivalent
sanction
theoretical
34. Intricate; complex
convoluted
conflagration
replete
enlightening
35. Incapable of being reformed
incorrigible
chiasmus
sanction
fabricated
36. Something out of place in time or sequence
quandary
prodigious
endure
anachronism
37. Responsive; agreeable
pejorative
amenable
ambivalent
incumbent
38. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
dilettante
malice
equanimity
consensus
39. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
surreptitiously
archaic
hypocrisy
astute
40. Lacking application or practical application
capricious
synecdoche
theoretical
lucid
41. Lacking energy
anthropomorphism
ambivalent
eclectic
listless
42. Wrongdoing - misconduct
conviction
prosaic
malfeasance
quandary
43. Menacing; threatening
brusque
ominous
equanimity
fabricated
44. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
stoic
objectivity
equivocate
mural
45. A tremendously skilled artist
cordial
consensus
virtuoso
disparage
46. Rotten
convoluted
permeated
putrid
trepidation
47. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
plausible
emigrate
timorous
hierarchy
48. Unimportant
inconsequential
patronizing
intuition
decorous
49. Made; concocted to deceive
caustic
fabricated
paradigm
ornate
50. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
incumbent
ruse
arid
tenuous