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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. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
melancholy
capricious
acquired
2. To avoid making a definite statement
equivocate
substantiated
idealize
impinge
3. General agreement
trepidation
consensus
equivocate
pejorative
4. Energy; power to survive
suppressed
torpor
vitality
assimilation
5. Playfully humorous
vindicated
tenacity
sedentary
facetious
6. Easy-going; friendly
affable
trivial
dictatorial
austere
7. Current - modern; from the same time
pragmatic
assertion
sardonic
contemporary
8. No longer in use; old-fashioned
novice
inevitable
obsolete
catalog (v.)
9. Anxiety or fear about the future
apparatus
apprehension
prosaic
assimilation
10. A tremendously skilled artist
fabricated
virtuoso
serene
condescending
11. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
plagiarism
ponderous
condescending
elusive
12. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
novel
plausible
tenuous
futile
13. Practical
mundane
emigrate
pragmatic
anthropomorphism
14. Lacking energy
benign
listless
maverick
tenacity
15. A collection of literary pieces
anthology
dogmatic
inherent
lexicon
16. Describing a large amount of something
eloquence
hypocrisy
didactic
ample
17. A fixed or strong belief
medieval
medley
tenuous
conviction
18. Sincerity; openness
excerpt
inherent
candor
frank
19. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
intuition
tenacity
dubious
notorious
20. Unplanned; naturally occurring
elusive
superficial
spontaneous
proximity
21. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
nascent
prudent
condemn
suppressed
22. Worn out through overuse; trite
coherent
acquired
arid
hackneyed
23. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
incumbent
consensus
candor
haughty
24. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
vilify
oxymoron
stratagem
sonorous
25. A place of retreat or security
paramount
prodigious
asylum
consensus
26. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
factious
camaraderie
rhetoric
dogged
27. Feeling hatred; scornful
contemptuous
eloquence
dilettante
opulent
28. Copied or adapted from a source
ominous
incontrovertible
derived
tenacity
29. Rotten
harbinger
putrid
conviction
lexicon
30. Determined by impulse rather than reason
obdurate
arbitrary
astute
syllogism
31. Elaborately decorated
solvent
ornate
wary
chiasmus
32. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
mundane
consensus
hierarchy
florid
33. All-powerful
condescending
omnipotent
profound
propitious
34. Responsive; agreeable
vindicated
amenable
biased
pragmatic
35. Combative; belligerent
pugnacious
permeated
genre
synecdoche
36. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
idealize
disdain
fabricated
37. Extreme ill-will or spite
malleable
obsolete
opulent
malice
38. Having a harmful effect; injurious
deleterious
acquired
permeated
superficial
39. To grow or increase rapidly
brittle
facetious
stoic
proliferate
40. To restrain; to hold back
exemplary
subdue
obdurate
disdain
41. Developed or learned; not naturally occuring
disparity
acquired
chiasmus
amenable
42. Subdued; kept from being circulated
fastidious
arid
suppressed
comprehensive
43. Shrewd; clever
astute
sanction
surreptitiously
theoretical
44. Stubbornly persevering
dogged
pejorative
solvent
amenable
45. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
coherent
apposition
innovative
cohesive
46. Bound to happen; unavoidable
spontaneous
inevitable
hierarchy
factious
47. Arrogant; vainly proud
surreptitiously
haughty
equivocate
eloquence
48. An inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
chiasmus
gesticulating
discredit
embellish
49. To put up with; to survive a hardship
naive
endure
hypocrisy
medley
50. A group organized by rank
elusive
deleterious
sardonic
hierarchy