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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. Feeling or showing little emotion
asylum
wily
apathetic
ostentatious
2. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; - difference
alienated
propriety
reclamation
disparity
3. Not genuine
spurious
melancholy
insolent
hierarchy
4. A grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used
cordial
exemplary
parallelism
superfluous
5. Conspicuously bad or offensive
slander
syllogism
egregious
disdain
6. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
putrid
spontaneous
impression
futile
7. Easily understood; clear
lucid
derived
subdue
reclamation
8. Responsive; agreeable
frank
rhetoric
conception
amenable
9. Stubborn; inflexible
obdurate
opulent
discredit
quandary
10. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
gesticulating
fabricated
pugnacious
elusive
11. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
torpor
staid
dictatorial
dubious
12. Not able to be denied or disputed
harbinger
incontrovertible
pejorative
proximity
13. Statement of high praise
panegyric
dogged
truncated
ambiguous
14. Relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct
discredit
obscure
capricious
convoluted
15. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
dictatorial
syllogism
parody
incumbent
16. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
vitality
compelling
permeated
torpor
17. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
conviction
propitious
quandary
impression
18. Impulsive and unpredictable
incorrigible
capricious
spontaneous
phenomenon
19. Circumstances of a situation; environment
candor
context
ornate
ominous
20. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
disingenuous
frank
contemptuous
anthology
21. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
endure
indifferent
embellish
coup
22. Shrewd; clever
idealize
abstract
astute
condemn
23. A beginner
novice
brittle
mural
arbitrary
24. Extra; unnecessary
inconsequential
apathetic
contemptuous
superfluous
25. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
arbiter
malleable
modest
conviction
26. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
paramount
propitious
excerpt
dogmatic
27. Commendable; worthy of imitation
sanction
exemplary
nascent
substantiated
28. Not applied to actual objects
obsolete
deleterious
abstract
surreptitiously
29. Feeling hatred; scornful
apparatus
pragmatic
benevolent
contemptuous
30. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
truncated
chiasmus
surreptitiously
aesthetic
31. Lazy
virtuoso
vindicated
indolent
wary
32. Enormous
stratagem
prodigious
disdain
enmity
33. Referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
medieval
pugnacious
emigrate
conviction
34. A perfect example; an original pattern or model
candor
archetype
apprehension
enlightening
35. A selected part of a passage or scene
apprehension
ample
aesthetic
excerpt
36. Not straightforward; crafty
proliferate
facile
conflagration
disingenuous
37. Kind and gentle
reprehensible
nocturnal
ostentatious
benign
38. A tremendously skilled artist
virtuoso
astute
lament
vindicated
39. Hinder; interfere with
impinge
solvent
medieval
diligent
40. Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
austere
rhetoric
sedentary
dogmatic
41. Bound to happen; unavoidable
inevitable
phenomenon
convoluted
putrid
42. Not caring one way or the other
theoretical
indifferent
intuition
hackneyed
43. To ease a pain or burden
proliferate
dubious
alleviate
impression
44. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
panegyric
impede
convoluted
maverick
45. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
novel
equivocate
endure
condemn
46. Current - modern; from the same time
futile
contemporary
copious
vitality
47. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
discourse
apparatus
rhetoric
convoluted
48. Severely critical or sarcastic
surreptitiously
gesticulating
opulent
caustic
49. All-powerful
arid
conviction
omnipotent
listless
50. Possessed at birth; inborn
disparage
enmity
innate
incontrovertible