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AP English Vocab
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1. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
inveterate
dubious
impede
medley
2. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; - difference
disparity
hackneyed
abstract
exculpate
3. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
transient
surreptitiously
indolent
rancorous
4. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
contemporary
disparity
archaic
alliance
5. Extremely dull
chiasmus
plagiarism
florid
ponderous
6. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
sanction
eloquence
implication
pejorative
7. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
integrity
whimsical
plagiarism
arbitrary
8. To give official authorization or approval
genre
hackneyed
vindicated
sanction
9. Easy-going; friendly
prodigious
affable
apposition
camaraderie
10. On guard
cordial
eclectic
wary
chiasmus
11. Unemotional; serious
meticulous
staid
arbitrary
pejorative
12. Good will between friends
camaraderie
perception
hierarchy
rhetoric
13. A beginner
panegyric
novice
transient
archetype
14. To consider perfect
impression
panegyric
spontaneous
idealize
15. Sadness; depression
phenomenon
pugnacious
melancholy
synecdoche
16. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
compelling
solvent
propitious
ambiguous
17. A word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary
rhetoric
ample
lexicon
impinge
18. Awareness; insight
perception
frank
nascent
enmity
19. To make vicious statements about
vilify
chiasmus
camaraderie
pugnacious
20. Stubbornly persevering
paramount
disdain
dogged
implication
21. To grow or increase rapidly
trepidation
period
candor
proliferate
22. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
arbitrary
spurious
affable
23. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
novice
dilettante
frenetic
sonorous
24. Quarrelsome
facile
gesticulating
conflagration
factious
25. The act of suggesting or hinting
discredit
implication
compelling
conflagration
26. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
brittle
pervasive
benign
mediocrity
27. Feeling or showing little emotion
copious
ostentatious
superfluous
apathetic
28. A form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole
eloquence
inevitable
synecdoche
penitent
29. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
stratagem
frenetic
maverick
mediocrity
30. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
alienated
mollify
anthology
31. Contempt - scorn - to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
austere
exculpate
disdain
propitious
32. Easily flowing
fluid
tenuous
malice
sanction
33. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
enmity
parody
trepidation
rational
34. Cunning
novel
embellish
wily
reclamation
35. A collection of literary pieces
dubious
poignant
tenuous
anthology
36. Short-lived or temporary
malleable
listless
transitory
biased
37. A perfect example; an original pattern or model
ambivalent
archetype
copious
phenomenon
38. Appropriateness of behavior
elusive
trivial
propriety
lament
39. Intended to instruct
arbiter
laudatory
didactic
ample
40. Easily understood; clear
lucid
profound
contemporary
insolent
41. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
impartial
quandary
emigrate
convoluted
42. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
ambivalent
cordial
flagrant
listless
43. Having a harmful effect; injurious
apathetic
harbinger
deleterious
proliferate
44. To slow the progress of
anthropomorphism
impede
plausible
meticulous
45. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
wily
suppressed
propitious
modest
46. Long - complex - grammatically correct sentence
mural
wily
insipid
period
47. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
impinge
intuition
arbitrary
subdue
48. A grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used
slander
tenuous
derived
parallelism
49. Dispersed throughout
alienated
whimsical
reprehensible
pervasive
50. Large in scope or content
capricious
conviction
comprehensive
rational