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AP English Vocab
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1. Stubborn; inflexible
equivocate
lament
disparage
obdurate
2. Menacing; threatening
diligent
lament
slander
ominous
3. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
chiasmus
endure
pejorative
exculpate
4. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
flagrant
ebullience
caustic
spontaneous
5. Made; concocted to deceive
mollify
discredit
fabricated
melancholy
6. Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
cordial
dogmatic
comprehensive
rhetoric
7. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
assertion
candor
assiduous
imperious
8. Friendly; sincere
staid
ominous
astute
cordial
9. Conspicuously bad or offensive
despotic
egregious
obscure
novel
10. Coming into existence; emerging
nascent
permeated
genre
eloquence
11. To free from guilt or blame
exculpate
arid
mollify
mural
12. To slow the progress of
obstinate
reprehensible
impede
superficial
13. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
trivial
substantiated
mural
ambivalent
14. Extra; unnecessary
superfluous
permeated
decorous
biased
15. Having a harmful effect; injurious
wily
benevolent
deleterious
alliance
16. A group organized by rank
ruse
modest
hierarchy
facile
17. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
plausible
intrepid
stratagem
dubious
18. Extreme ill-will or spite
malice
dilettante
maverick
discredit
19. Arrogant; vainly proud
haughty
disdain
objectivity
flagrant
20. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
harbinger
disparity
rational
emigrate
21. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
frenetic
reprehensible
embellish
hypocrisy
22. Closeness
obsolete
elusive
ambiguous
proximity
23. Describing a dry - rainless climate
sonorous
elusive
diligent
arid
24. Describing a large amount of something
insolent
propitious
ample
surreptitiously
25. Referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
malleable
medieval
frenetic
patronizing
26. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
apology
disparage
obscure
derived
27. Contempt - scorn - to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
fluid
hypocrisy
disdain
condemn
28. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
diligent
dubious
indifferent
hackneyed
29. Current - modern; from the same time
lexicon
contemporary
camaraderie
catalog (v.)
30. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
despotic
acquired
proximity
trivial
31. Anxiety or fear about the future
paradigm
toxic
theoretical
apprehension
32. A grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used
archetype
substantiated
parallelism
hackneyed
33. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
truncated
florid
exemplary
34. Lacking application or practical application
frank
theoretical
pugnacious
assimilation
35. Characterized by the telling of a story
medieval
arbiter
facile
narrative
36. Stubbornly persevering
dogged
cohesive
biased
medley
37. Easily flowing
fluid
cogent
syllogism
capricious
38. Cunning
replete
metonymy
wily
hierarchy
39. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
amenable
plausible
prosaic
obsolete
40. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
deleterious
equanimity
inherent
cordial
41. To absorb; to make similar
arbitrary
stratagem
disparity
assimilation
42. To cause to be doubted
harbinger
coherent
spurious
discredit
43. Shortened; cut off
truncated
ostentatious
surreptitiously
capricious
44. Persistence
genre
dubious
quandary
tenacity
45. To calm or soothe
pugnacious
mollify
inevitable
embellish
46. A collection of literary pieces
anthology
toxic
idealize
novel
47. On guard
wary
disingenuous
theoretical
intuition
48. Wrongdoing - misconduct
gratuitous
arbiter
timorous
malfeasance
49. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
benign
medley
hierarchy
impression
50. Playfully humorous
asylum
facetious
astute
incumbent