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AP English Vocab
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1. Intended to instruct
caustic
proliferate
didactic
metonymy
2. Presenting favorable circumstances; auspicious
propitious
solvent
candor
coup
3. Unimportant
condescending
eclectic
staid
inconsequential
4. Characterized by the telling of a story
proliferate
acquired
narrative
contemptuous
5. Hatefully evil; abominable
apposition
condescending
penitent
heinous
6. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
impartial
modest
metonymy
misconception
7. To cause to be doubted
discredit
brittle
imperious
rancorous
8. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
lament
solvent
replete
effusive
9. Well-meaning; generous
spontaneous
stoic
exemplary
benevolent
10. Convincing; reasonable
cogent
discourse
theoretical
serene
11. Highly respected
slander
comprehensive
venerated
conviction
12. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
parody
exemplary
lucid
ingrate
13. A feeling about the future
conviction
premonition
gesticulating
facile
14. Anxiety or fear about the future
eclectic
apprehension
insolent
discredit
15. To absorb; to make similar
excerpt
sanction
comprehensive
assimilation
16. Having little substance or strength
tenuous
prodigious
rhetoric
futile
17. To consider perfect
solvent
condescending
idealize
convoluted
18. Uninteresting; unchallenging
toxic
insipid
archaic
archetype
19. Sadness; depression
melancholy
synecdoche
incontrovertible
dilettante
20. Producing a deep or full sound
disparity
sonorous
astute
parallelism
21. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
compelling
dogmatic
vitality
vilify
22. Having great depth or seriousness
premonition
stoic
profound
obsolete
23. Exercising good judgment or common sense
ample
austere
prudent
frank
24. Trustworthiness; completeness
paramount
wary
integrity
superficial
25. Made; concocted to deceive
inherent
anthropomorphism
fabricated
obdurate
26. Insulting in manner or speech
pernicious
facetious
insolent
excerpt
27. To make an itemized list of
superfluous
astute
dubious
catalog (v.)
28. Dispersed throughout
pervasive
wily
integrity
enmity
29. Sincerity; openness
excerpt
candor
ponderous
ebullience
30. Intense enthusiasm
stratagem
apathetic
archetype
ebullience
31. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
astute
inherent
surreptitiously
penitent
32. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
hypothetical
dilettante
toxic
capricious
33. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
obdurate
obsolete
substantiated
notorious
34. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
quandary
idealize
sedentary
realism
35. A union of two or more groups
elusive
proliferate
coup
alliance
36. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
sonorous
condemn
alienated
elusive
37. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
effusive
whimsical
propriety
plausible
38. Lacking sophistication or experience
whimsical
trivial
naive
notorious
39. Logically connected
surreptitiously
coup
listless
coherent
40. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
pejorative
aesthetic
embellish
ornate
41. Short-lived or temporary
apprehension
idealize
transitory
acquired
42. Closeness
putrid
apposition
proximity
synecdoche
43. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
torpor
imperious
discourse
stoic
44. Easy-going; friendly
apology
affable
aesthetic
nocturnal
45. Worthy of blame
candor
reprehensible
context
indolent
46. An inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
chiasmus
fabricated
obsolete
comprehensive
47. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
assertion
imperious
superfluous
ingrate
48. To leave one country or region and settle in another
emigrate
pejorative
eclectic
disdain
49. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
abstract
egregious
venerated
50. A grammar construction in which two identical syntactic constructions are used
misconception
arid
didactic
parallelism