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AP English Vocab
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1. An apparent contradiction of terms
oxymoron
mural
obsolete
acquired
2. Enormous
intuition
haughty
dogged
prodigious
3. Impulsive and unpredictable
ebullience
ample
virtuoso
capricious
4. Playfully humorous
facetious
innovative
substantiated
condemn
5. A group organized by rank
obsolete
hierarchy
derived
putrid
6. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
obscure
florid
condemn
proximity
7. Freed from blame
malice
vindicated
coherent
sedentary
8. Extreme ill-will or spite
parody
innovative
malice
decorous
9. Not genuine
excerpt
dilettante
spurious
incontrovertible
10. Having little substance or strength
tenuous
embellish
paramount
archaic
11. Profoundly moving; touching
poignant
perspective
contemporary
patronizing
12. Energy; power to survive
vitality
anthology
cohesive
arbitrary
13. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
omnipotent
conflagration
innate
rancorous
14. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; - difference
malice
ambiguous
incorrigible
disparity
15. To absorb; to make similar
assiduous
consensus
obdurate
assimilation
16. Appropriateness of behavior
clandestine
pervasive
propriety
gesticulating
17. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
lament
despotic
mediocrity
ornate
18. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
embellish
inevitable
emigrate
19. Insulting in manner or speech
apposition
insolent
subdue
paramount
20. To avoid making a definite statement
medieval
incorrigible
excerpt
equivocate
21. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
heinous
plausible
transient
alienated
22. Mutual hatred or ill-will
contemptuous
pugnacious
impartial
enmity
23. The ability to form or understand an idea
alleviate
contemptuous
discourse
conception
24. To make an itemized list of
catalog (v.)
frenetic
assiduous
parallelism
25. Subdued; kept from being circulated
pugnacious
comprehensive
suppressed
ornate
26. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
prodigious
condescending
patronizing
realism
27. To consider perfect
idealize
fluid
superfluous
benevolent
28. Conspicuously bad or offensive
egregious
cryptic
ostentatious
enmity
29. Not applied to actual objects
abstract
discredit
cordial
dilettante
30. Lacking application or practical application
theoretical
excerpt
contemptuous
assertion
31. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
effusive
incorrigible
trepidation
transient
32. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
slander
lexicon
benevolent
prodigious
33. Hard-working
plagiarism
assiduous
vitality
egregious
34. Not migratory; settled
decorous
staid
prodigious
sedentary
35. Having great depth or seriousness
consensus
profound
cryptic
prudent
36. An example or model
novel
conviction
arbitrary
paradigm
37. General agreement
rational
ominous
synecdoche
consensus
38. Copied or adapted from a source
permeated
discourse
derived
spurious
39. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
elusive
endure
diligent
disdain
40. Giving praise
period
wary
laudatory
anthology
41. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
whimsical
affable
implication
parody
42. Logically connected
austere
affable
torpor
coherent
43. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
incumbent
innate
fluid
medieval
44. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
impede
sanction
facile
emigrate
45. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action
brittle
novice
obstinate
deleterious
46. Arrogant; vainly proud
inevitable
haughty
discredit
cogent
47. Treating in a condescending manner
equivocate
patronizing
malice
frenetic
48. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
facetious
surreptitiously
eloquence
archetype
49. Trustworthiness; completeness
obscure
integrity
opulent
paramount
50. Unemotional; serious
toxic
perspective
staid
medieval