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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. Causing great harm
realism
stratagem
tenuous
pernicious
2. Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
insipid
mediocrity
lexicon
dogmatic
3. Cunning
pugnacious
wily
toxic
malleable
4. Informative; contributing to one's awareness
enlightening
tenacity
coherent
exculpate
5. Shrewd; clever
brittle
obscure
astute
tenacity
6. To ease a pain or burden
anachronism
camaraderie
substantiated
alleviate
7. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
context
flagrant
quandary
toxic
8. Intricate; complex
convoluted
dogged
reclamation
perspective
9. An apparent contradiction of terms
endure
facile
oxymoron
insipid
10. Unimaginative; dull
impartial
rhetoric
conception
prosaic
11. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
serene
apposition
anachronism
melancholy
12. A beginner
biased
novice
sardonic
impression
13. Bound to happen; unavoidable
premonition
surreptitiously
inevitable
exculpate
14. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
frenetic
rational
excerpt
15. Point of view
novel
novice
sardonic
perspective
16. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
egregious
superficial
impression
laudatory
17. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
alliance
spurious
propitious
discredit
18. Arrogant; vainly proud
emigrate
sedentary
haughty
asylum
19. Proper; marked by good taste
apprehension
toxic
hackneyed
decorous
20. Long - complex - grammatically correct sentence
intuition
period
sanction
incumbent
21. Strikingly new or unusual
novel
emigrate
pugnacious
virtuoso
22. Rudely abrupt
melancholy
despotic
brusque
propitious
23. Characterized by the telling of a story
hierarchy
narrative
diligent
arbiter
24. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
incontrovertible
discourse
superficial
vilify
25. Well-meaning; generous
benevolent
acquired
hackneyed
abstract
26. Extreme ill-will or spite
maverick
malice
alliance
genre
27. Current - modern; from the same time
dilettante
contemporary
profound
effusive
28. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
disdain
contemptuous
metonymy
29. Coming into existence; emerging
pejorative
reprehensible
nascent
pervasive
30. The act of suggesting or hinting
implication
impinge
compelling
intrepid
31. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; - difference
malice
transitory
elusive
disparity
32. Lazy
indolent
factious
serene
meticulous
33. Existing only as an assumption or speculation
hypothetical
discredit
exemplary
apposition
34. Convincing; reasonable
benign
malfeasance
profound
cogent
35. Difficult to comprehend
cryptic
asylum
phenomenon
ambiguous
36. Hard-working
assiduous
deleterious
idealize
reclamation
37. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family - or homeland)
capricious
cohesive
inconsequential
alienated
38. An economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
pervasive
propriety
sanction
ominous
39. Poisonous
benevolent
facile
toxic
assertion
40. To make vicious statements about
inveterate
ostentatious
gesticulating
vilify
41. Shortened; cut off
spontaneous
obsolete
synecdoche
truncated
42. Secretive
frenetic
clandestine
disparage
archaic
43. Disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh - bitter - or caustic
synecdoche
sardonic
heinous
wily
44. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
mural
period
misconception
whimsical
45. A form of deductive reasoning: a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
penitent
replete
excerpt
syllogism
46. Stubbornly persevering
rancorous
dogged
copious
amenable
47. Timid; fearful about the future
replete
wily
timorous
enlightening
48. The act of making something useful again
vitality
spontaneous
archetype
reclamation
49. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
rational
patronizing
embellish
50. Contempt - scorn - to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
novice
misconception
disdain
putrid