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AP English Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Uninteresting; unchallenging
flagrant
insipid
pugnacious
plagiarism
2. Developed or learned; not naturally occuring
acquired
anachronism
toxic
misconception
3. Without decoration; strict
mundane
inherent
convoluted
austere
4. Done by secretive means
pugnacious
surreptitiously
putrid
indifferent
5. The attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects - animals - or forces of nature
chiasmus
anthropomorphism
parallelism
tenacity
6. Large in scope or content
tenacity
frenetic
impinge
comprehensive
7. Express grief for; mourn
intuition
clandestine
maverick
lament
8. Worn out through overuse; trite
rhetoric
hackneyed
vindicated
propriety
9. Combative; belligerent
pugnacious
reclamation
indifferent
timorous
10. Intense enthusiasm
benign
subdue
harbinger
ebullience
11. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
frenetic
intuition
dilettante
consensus
12. To consider perfect
anthropomorphism
idealize
malfeasance
ponderous
13. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
effusive
context
stratagem
imperious
14. Subdued; kept from being circulated
equanimity
benign
archaic
suppressed
15. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
fastidious
rhetoric
archaic
idealize
16. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
innate
stoic
mural
inevitable
17. Mutual hatred or ill-will
elusive
enmity
penitent
whimsical
18. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
decorous
spurious
paradigm
stoic
19. Point of view
replete
genre
period
perspective
20. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
phenomenon
propitious
permeated
paramount
21. Lacking energy
listless
tenacity
equanimity
benign
22. Describing the category or artistic endeavor
reprehensible
eclectic
haughty
genre
23. Courageous; fearless; bold
condemn
intrepid
lexicon
timorous
24. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
assiduous
deleterious
period
rhetoric
25. To make an itemized list of
catalog (v.)
apparatus
naive
pejorative
26. Not straightforward; crafty
substantiated
chiasmus
benign
disingenuous
27. Rudely abrupt
inherent
truncated
paramount
brusque
28. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
plagiarism
anthology
impression
hierarchy
29. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
obscure
malleable
integrity
ruse
30. Closeness
torpor
proximity
lexicon
enmity
31. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
decorous
impression
narrative
deleterious
32. Current - modern; from the same time
embellish
contemporary
vilify
inveterate
33. To put up with; to survive a hardship
metonymy
sanction
servile
endure
34. A feeling about the future
malice
premonition
intuition
narrative
35. Submissive; like a servant
metonymy
venerated
paradigm
servile
36. Shortened; cut off
disparage
asylum
lucid
truncated
37. Persistence
syllogism
tenacity
coherent
haughty
38. Circumstances of a situation; environment
context
obsolete
solvent
parody
39. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
derived
toxic
innovative
gratuitous
40. A collection of literary pieces
substantiated
ambivalent
anthology
discourse
41. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
naive
mural
reclamation
notorious
42. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
poignant
dictatorial
cogent
inherent
43. Profoundly moving; touching
condescending
opulent
obdurate
poignant
44. Spread or flowing throughout
permeated
anthology
subdue
apparatus
45. Not caring one way or the other
indifferent
synecdoche
hackneyed
superfluous
46. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
insolent
slander
sanction
impede
47. Proper; marked by good taste
decorous
alliance
vitality
equanimity
48. A group organized by rank
panegyric
florid
hierarchy
laudatory
49. Not applied to actual objects
oxymoron
acquired
abstract
imperious
50. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family - or homeland)
chiasmus
alienated
spurious
apology