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AP English Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Subdued; kept from being circulated
narrative
condescending
context
suppressed
2. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
equanimity
flagrant
vitality
dilettante
3. Quarrelsome
pugnacious
superfluous
impinge
factious
4. Uninteresting; unchallenging
ebullience
insipid
catalog (v.)
deleterious
5. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
condescending
enmity
rancorous
diligent
6. Shortened; cut off
transient
truncated
reprehensible
indifferent
7. No longer in use; old-fashioned
catalog (v.)
mundane
insipid
obsolete
8. Feeling hatred; scornful
catalog (v.)
subdue
contemptuous
alleviate
9. Disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh - bitter - or caustic
sardonic
implication
integrity
poignant
10. Profoundly moving; touching
cohesive
poignant
harbinger
affable
11. A tremendously skilled artist
gratuitous
patronizing
suppressed
virtuoso
12. Timid; fearful about the future
timorous
alienated
apposition
condescending
13. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
narrative
transient
sedentary
trepidation
14. Without decoration; strict
disdain
inherent
alleviate
austere
15. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
insipid
incumbent
aesthetic
ominous
16. Having no useful purpose; pointless
florid
futile
parallelism
sanction
17. A collection of literary pieces
pugnacious
arbitrary
mollify
anthology
18. Point of view
chiasmus
perspective
equanimity
nocturnal
19. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
slander
equivocate
impartial
decorous
20. The act of suggesting or hinting
implication
convoluted
disingenuous
surreptitiously
21. Persistence
asylum
propitious
tenacity
insipid
22. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archetype
archaic
excerpt
rational
23. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
sedentary
ornate
disdain
ambivalent
24. A form of metonymy that's restricted to cases where a part is used to signify the whole
synecdoche
replete
prosaic
discredit
25. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
deleterious
trepidation
biased
eloquence
26. Difficult to comprehend
disparage
medieval
assiduous
cryptic
27. Sincerity; openness
astute
rancorous
amenable
candor
28. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
dogged
timorous
hypocrisy
torpor
29. Current - modern; from the same time
contemporary
apology
opulent
austere
30. Hard-working
assiduous
dogged
perception
objectivity
31. Arrogant; vainly proud
exemplary
haughty
futile
poignant
32. A selected part of a passage or scene
assiduous
excerpt
pugnacious
idealize
33. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
parody
objectivity
cordial
mediocrity
34. Possessing carefull attention to detail; difficult to please
tenuous
perspective
apparatus
fastidious
35. Causing great harm
eclectic
benign
compelling
pernicious
36. Not applied to actual objects
abstract
notorious
laudatory
cordial
37. Not straightforward; crafty
disingenuous
acquired
medley
assimilation
38. Fear - apprehension
haughty
trepidation
condemn
archaic
39. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
ambiguous
venerated
equanimity
prosaic
40. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
dictatorial
disparage
parody
apparatus
41. Not migratory; settled
sedentary
exemplary
quandary
paramount
42. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
synecdoche
arid
superfluous
slander
43. The ability to form or understand an idea
fabricated
copious
conception
notorious
44. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
cohesive
obdurate
dictatorial
hierarchy
45. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
apposition
realism
trivial
listless
46. Combative; belligerent
pugnacious
spontaneous
despotic
plagiarism
47. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
frank
consensus
novel
biased
48. Unemotional; serious
condemn
coherent
ominous
staid
49. Short-lived or temporary
malleable
pugnacious
transitory
anachronism
50. A judge who decides a disputed issue
alleviate
arbiter
impression
premonition