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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. A feeling about the future
hierarchy
embellish
premonition
arbitrary
2. Current - modern; from the same time
disdain
slander
contemporary
compelling
3. To slow the progress of
impinge
abstract
impede
pernicious
4. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
facile
propriety
cryptic
disdain
5. Large in scope or content
paramount
comprehensive
cordial
equanimity
6. A form of deductive reasoning: a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
vitality
cryptic
syllogism
incontrovertible
7. An economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
sanction
reprehensible
trepidation
capricious
8. To leave one country or region and settle in another
disparage
ambivalent
inevitable
emigrate
9. Introducing something new
compelling
apprehension
innovative
proximity
10. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
flagrant
pragmatic
diligent
dogmatic
11. Unemotional; serious
inveterate
pugnacious
florid
staid
12. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
anachronism
suppressed
comprehensive
propitious
13. A group organized by rank
metonymy
proliferate
hierarchy
ruse
14. Commonplace; ordinary
mundane
virtuoso
hypocrisy
synecdoche
15. Worthy of blame
rancorous
reclamation
pugnacious
reprehensible
16. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family - or homeland)
alienated
profound
malfeasance
aesthetic
17. Equipment; a group of machines
apparatus
archetype
condemn
hierarchy
18. Lacking energy
malleable
candor
listless
hackneyed
19. A tremendously skilled artist
virtuoso
arbitrary
frenetic
trepidation
20. Condition of sticking together
decorous
factious
cohesive
brittle
21. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
slander
condemn
arbitrary
naive
22. Having no useful purpose; pointless
genre
parody
ponderous
futile
23. Courageous; fearless; bold
intrepid
premonition
tenacity
innate
24. To make an itemized list of
tenacity
listless
catalog (v.)
spurious
25. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
eloquence
facetious
maverick
exculpate
26. Shortened; cut off
truncated
contemporary
gratuitous
comprehensive
27. Determined by impulse rather than reason
vindicated
slander
arbitrary
prodigious
28. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
transient
ominous
astute
compelling
29. Sincerity; openness
dogged
disparage
coup
candor
30. Long - complex - grammatically correct sentence
capricious
poignant
period
anachronism
31. Existing only as an assumption or speculation
hypothetical
vilify
ambiguous
wily
32. Prejudiced
biased
incorrigible
reclamation
malleable
33. Defense of an idea
aesthetic
benign
timorous
apology
34. Highly respected
cogent
modest
integrity
venerated
35. Without decoration; strict
austere
omnipotent
pernicious
equivocate
36. Conspicuously bad or offensive
solvent
despotic
egregious
consensus
37. Intended to instruct
facetious
sardonic
gratuitous
didactic
38. Freed from blame
objectivity
parody
vindicated
reprehensible
39. The ability to form or understand an idea
conception
vindicated
idealize
flagrant
40. Extremely dull
ponderous
listless
catalog (v.)
apology
41. Feeling or showing little emotion
inveterate
apathetic
vindicated
brittle
42. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
theoretical
quandary
copious
medieval
43. A form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole
apposition
period
synecdoche
trepidation
44. Secretive
clandestine
trepidation
sanction
disdain
45. Energy; power to survive
endure
contemptuous
vitality
discourse
46. Possessed at birth; inborn
brusque
effusive
innate
realism
47. To avoid making a definite statement
pejorative
apposition
equivocate
facile
48. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
objectivity
disparage
acquired
clandestine
49. An unusual - observable event
phenomenon
astute
ostentatious
plausible
50. Having great depth or seriousness
ambivalent
profound
innovative
trivial