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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. Wildly excited or active
prosaic
insolent
fastidious
frenetic
2. Quarrelsome
factious
malice
transitory
biased
3. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
brusque
implication
metonymy
4. A crafty trick
pejorative
mediocrity
ruse
endure
5. Spread or flowing throughout
derived
permeated
impede
decorous
6. A form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole
mural
enlightening
synecdoche
laudatory
7. Favorable; promising
auspicious
abstract
serene
austere
8. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
deleterious
superfluous
medley
benevolent
9. Short-lived or temporary
fluid
spurious
transitory
ebullience
10. To slow the progress of
impede
novice
perspective
propriety
11. Profoundly moving; touching
mural
poignant
ruse
rancorous
12. Possessed at birth; inborn
enlightening
innate
context
ingrate
13. A word book describing language with definitions; a dictionary
intuition
innovative
quandary
lexicon
14. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
frank
plagiarism
narrative
cogent
15. Shrewd; clever
alliance
dubious
equanimity
astute
16. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
haughty
candor
lexicon
rancorous
17. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
despotic
dogmatic
pejorative
alliance
18. Wrongdoing - misconduct
decorous
ostentatious
dictatorial
malfeasance
19. Made; concocted to deceive
ostentatious
sonorous
fabricated
integrity
20. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
whimsical
lament
endure
pugnacious
21. To consider perfect
futile
mural
incontrovertible
idealize
22. An apparent contradiction of terms
torpor
oxymoron
archaic
asylum
23. Awareness; insight
endure
perception
phenomenon
propitious
24. Enormous
rhetoric
parallelism
prodigious
candor
25. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
apparatus
affable
substantiated
suppressed
26. Not migratory; settled
deleterious
sedentary
paradigm
compelling
27. Rudely abrupt
malleable
cohesive
brusque
alliance
28. Uninteresting; unchallenging
insipid
discourse
dogmatic
cryptic
29. Extremely dull
ponderous
panegyric
torpor
hypocrisy
30. Equipment; a group of machines
apparatus
medley
gratuitous
indifferent
31. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
meticulous
hypocrisy
whimsical
objectivity
32. Having a harmful effect; injurious
equanimity
deleterious
ostentatious
mediocrity
33. Lazy
indolent
whimsical
enmity
flagrant
34. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
ambivalent
spurious
facile
discourse
35. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
hypothetical
rational
sardonic
anthology
36. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; - difference
timorous
genre
heinous
disparity
37. Fear - apprehension
trepidation
listless
ponderous
rational
38. A judge who decides a disputed issue
conception
harbinger
arbiter
parallelism
39. Something out of place in time or sequence
malleable
cogent
anachronism
comprehensive
40. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arbitrary
penitent
pernicious
period
41. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
pejorative
hackneyed
brittle
didactic
42. Not straightforward; crafty
sonorous
disingenuous
hierarchy
ample
43. Hinder; interfere with
impinge
gesticulating
prodigious
cohesive
44. Exercising good judgment or common sense
suppressed
virtuoso
hypothetical
prudent
45. Express grief for; mourn
impartial
surreptitiously
lament
contemptuous
46. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
venerated
alliance
harbinger
apparatus
47. To restrain; to hold back
dogged
despotic
ample
subdue
48. A group organized by rank
proximity
hierarchy
ebullience
archetype
49. Intricate; complex
despotic
facetious
realism
convoluted
50. Secretive
affable
lucid
clandestine
discourse