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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. Difficult to comprehend
asylum
mediocrity
cryptic
wily
2. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
candor
incumbent
phenomenon
penitent
3. Incapable of being reformed
anthology
propitious
intuition
incorrigible
4. Stubbornly persevering
spurious
dogged
profound
tenacity
5. Feeling or showing little emotion
discourse
apathetic
novel
hackneyed
6. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
diligent
cohesive
ingrate
mediocrity
7. Favorable; promising
fabricated
factious
auspicious
synecdoche
8. Spread or flowing throughout
pragmatic
perspective
permeated
contemporary
9. To slow the progress of
period
stratagem
impede
fluid
10. Not genuine
pernicious
conception
factious
spurious
11. Prejudiced
biased
impinge
lexicon
sardonic
12. The act of making something useful again
sonorous
reclamation
sedentary
equanimity
13. Stubborn; inflexible
superficial
arbitrary
permeated
obdurate
14. Timid; fearful about the future
endure
timorous
egregious
enmity
15. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
brittle
profound
spontaneous
disdain
16. Exercising good judgment or common sense
prudent
parody
coherent
frenetic
17. Characterized by the telling of a story
putrid
pervasive
narrative
equivocate
18. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
elusive
decorous
rhetoric
obsolete
19. Inborn; built-in
incorrigible
inherent
benign
reprehensible
20. Poisonous
suppressed
putrid
toxic
diligent
21. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
dubious
affable
metonymy
integrity
22. On guard
benign
modest
wary
lament
23. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
ambivalent
rancorous
hierarchy
factious
24. Made; concocted to deceive
narrative
alliance
fabricated
dogmatic
25. A tremendously skilled artist
virtuoso
alienated
putrid
propitious
26. To put up with; to survive a hardship
contemporary
endure
chiasmus
quandary
27. Unemotional; serious
whimsical
staid
consensus
elusive
28. Convincing; reasonable
propriety
cogent
arid
deleterious
29. Fear - apprehension
inconsequential
discredit
trepidation
profound
30. Long - complex - grammatically correct sentence
period
exculpate
deleterious
impede
31. Of or occurring in the night; under cover of darkness
nocturnal
realism
fluid
period
32. A brilliantly executed plan
didactic
factious
premonition
coup
33. Subdued; kept from being circulated
spontaneous
phenomenon
suppressed
malice
34. Shortened; cut off
proximity
cohesive
proliferate
truncated
35. Easily flowing
cordial
gesticulating
fluid
derived
36. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archaic
convoluted
mundane
lucid
37. A declaration or statement
syllogism
apposition
assertion
malfeasance
38. Statement of high praise
ambiguous
panegyric
omnipotent
heinous
39. To make vicious statements about
prosaic
naive
stratagem
vilify
40. Highly respected
venerated
capricious
toxic
ebullience
41. All-powerful
assertion
omnipotent
assimilation
prosaic
42. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
disdain
inveterate
incontrovertible
malfeasance
43. Commendable; worthy of imitation
profound
austere
exemplary
ostentatious
44. Good will between friends
camaraderie
lucid
dogmatic
perception
45. Without decoration; strict
plausible
timorous
austere
melancholy
46. Logically connected
coherent
florid
ruse
intrepid
47. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
obstinate
chiasmus
permeated
48. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
hackneyed
opulent
compelling
facile
49. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
transient
anthology
harbinger
coherent
50. Giving praise
benign
laudatory
impression
malleable