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AP English Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Intense enthusiasm
clandestine
ebullience
replete
exemplary
2. To put up with; to survive a hardship
endure
convoluted
medieval
sanction
3. Describing a showy or pretentious display
florid
idealize
ostentatious
heinous
4. A fixed or strong belief
conviction
condescending
arbiter
futile
5. Coming into existence; emerging
heinous
aesthetic
context
nascent
6. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
alienated
apposition
integrity
convoluted
7. Hard-working
assiduous
poignant
benevolent
dubious
8. Well-meaning; generous
benevolent
paramount
omnipotent
hackneyed
9. A type of figurative language in which one term is substituted for another term with which it is closely associated
obscure
timorous
metonymy
implication
10. Stubbornly persevering
chiasmus
facile
prosaic
dogged
11. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
apprehension
inconsequential
conviction
rancorous
12. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
plagiarism
surreptitiously
innate
austere
13. A tremendously skilled artist
virtuoso
insolent
hypothetical
penitent
14. To make vicious statements about
vilify
heinous
reprehensible
apathetic
15. Lazy
permeated
indolent
putrid
condemn
16. Copied or adapted from a source
derived
propriety
fluid
ostentatious
17. Timid; fearful about the future
timorous
assertion
disparage
replete
18. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
pejorative
insipid
eclectic
impinge
19. To restrain; to hold back
putrid
disdain
subdue
ruse
20. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
rhetoric
conflagration
pugnacious
diligent
21. Mutual hatred or ill-will
archaic
mediocrity
enmity
reclamation
22. Easily flowing
fluid
malice
transient
aesthetic
23. Insulting in manner or speech
inveterate
flagrant
insolent
factious
24. Practical
obdurate
lament
pragmatic
discourse
25. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
capricious
disparage
conception
egregious
26. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
brittle
obstinate
intrepid
solvent
27. Rudely abrupt
brusque
capricious
caustic
ostentatious
28. A union of two or more groups
alliance
torpor
putrid
brittle
29. Not migratory; settled
sedentary
didactic
inconsequential
enlightening
30. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
genre
malleable
malfeasance
impartial
31. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
sedentary
hypocrisy
archetype
ominous
32. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
plausible
alleviate
haughty
ominous
33. To cause to be doubted
hypocrisy
discredit
impression
conflagration
34. A crafty trick
ruse
cohesive
arbiter
egregious
35. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
ingrate
innate
stratagem
embellish
36. To grow or increase rapidly
parallelism
proliferate
impede
indolent
37. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; - difference
condemn
exculpate
disparity
arid
38. Giving praise
archaic
laudatory
condemn
disparity
39. A feeling about the future
premonition
prudent
dubious
impede
40. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
profound
timorous
slander
mediocrity
41. Having little substance or strength
mural
tenuous
opulent
contemporary
42. Worn out through overuse; trite
hackneyed
contemptuous
sanction
impression
43. Hatefully evil; abominable
modest
quandary
ponderous
heinous
44. Intended to instruct
didactic
emigrate
lucid
proliferate
45. Having no useful purpose; pointless
truncated
futile
exculpate
prudent
46. The act of suggesting or hinting
dubious
paramount
implication
impede
47. Describing a large amount of something
profound
fabricated
ample
paramount
48. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
plausible
mural
genre
truncated
49. Referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
sanction
proliferate
incontrovertible
medieval
50. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
gratuitous
slander
sanction
dubious