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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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1. Courageous; fearless; bold
arbitrary
hypothetical
intrepid
clandestine
2. Equipment; a group of machines
apparatus
reprehensible
hierarchy
medieval
3. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
enlightening
genre
novel
propitious
4. Spread or flowing throughout
ingrate
permeated
frank
compelling
5. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
elusive
dilettante
conception
naive
6. Kind and gentle
dictatorial
benign
abstract
vitality
7. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
objectivity
lucid
archaic
tenacity
8. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
coup
syllogism
whimsical
copious
9. Anxiety or fear about the future
arbiter
timorous
apprehension
tenuous
10. A brilliantly executed plan
ruse
coup
fluid
truncated
11. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
benign
phenomenon
impinge
quandary
12. The act of suggesting or hinting
superfluous
harbinger
implication
disparity
13. To restrain; to hold back
subdue
patronizing
catalog (v.)
mollify
14. An ungrateful person
ingrate
ornate
ostentatious
deleterious
15. Exercising good judgment or common sense
prudent
malice
impartial
heinous
16. Unimportant
truncated
inconsequential
aesthetic
despotic
17. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
mural
condemn
dogmatic
servile
18. Inborn; built-in
inevitable
candor
harbinger
inherent
19. Having little substance or strength
notorious
coherent
tenuous
paradigm
20. Timid; fearful about the future
inconsequential
ambiguous
tenacity
timorous
21. Bound to happen; unavoidable
hypocrisy
parallelism
nocturnal
inevitable
22. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
pejorative
eclectic
ample
apathetic
23. Stubborn; inflexible
cogent
melancholy
obdurate
benign
24. Worn out through overuse; trite
conception
hackneyed
facetious
biased
25. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; - difference
candor
inherent
disparity
prosaic
26. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
slander
inveterate
intrepid
apprehension
27. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
dogged
contemptuous
paradigm
28. Extremely dull
nascent
ponderous
anachronism
apathetic
29. Energy; power to survive
cohesive
vitality
factious
obsolete
30. Contempt - scorn - to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
disdain
realism
discourse
conflagration
31. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
parody
innovative
tenuous
facile
32. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
rancorous
alleviate
candor
factious
33. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
discourse
patronizing
novel
indifferent
34. Unimaginative; dull
prosaic
obstinate
pervasive
surreptitiously
35. Circumstances of a situation; environment
impartial
context
frank
realism
36. Of or occurring in the night; under cover of darkness
florid
contemptuous
nocturnal
camaraderie
37. Well-meaning; generous
benevolent
assertion
ebullience
apprehension
38. Dispersed throughout
pervasive
metonymy
parallelism
malfeasance
39. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
apposition
copious
obscure
parody
40. Commonplace; ordinary
naive
mundane
disdain
prosaic
41. Something out of place in time or sequence
genre
equivocate
anachronism
aesthetic
42. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
alleviate
excerpt
replete
dictatorial
43. A group organized by rank
assiduous
hierarchy
servile
dubious
44. Arrogant; vainly proud
superficial
impede
excerpt
haughty
45. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
novel
acquired
obsolete
flagrant
46. Describing a large amount of something
ample
ponderous
apposition
dogmatic
47. Describing the category or artistic endeavor
genre
propitious
eclectic
assiduous
48. Having no useful purpose; pointless
futile
condescending
hypothetical
servile
49. Treating people as weak or inferior
elusive
condescending
chiasmus
incorrigible
50. Copied or adapted from a source
derived
integrity
spontaneous
propitious