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AP English Vocab
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1. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
proliferate
impression
suppressed
hierarchy
2. Elaborately decorated
discredit
disdain
ornate
enlightening
3. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
malfeasance
paramount
naive
incumbent
4. Arrogant; vainly proud
prudent
candor
haughty
biased
5. Possessing carefull attention to detail; difficult to please
fastidious
disparage
archaic
superfluous
6. Unplanned; naturally occurring
venerated
dogged
truncated
spontaneous
7. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
rational
proximity
sanction
brusque
8. Mutual hatred or ill-will
catalog (v.)
enmity
inherent
plagiarism
9. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
sanction
brittle
notorious
pejorative
10. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
laudatory
eloquence
apposition
facetious
11. Relatively unknown; to conceal or make indistinct
sedentary
obscure
proximity
discourse
12. Trustworthiness; completeness
integrity
nascent
equivocate
lucid
13. A form of deductive reasoning: a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
impartial
syllogism
didactic
tenacity
14. Intense enthusiasm
ebullience
opulent
trivial
period
15. Having a harmful effect; injurious
conflagration
sanction
gesticulating
deleterious
16. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
malleable
diligent
impinge
disparage
17. Highly respected
intrepid
propitious
venerated
cohesive
18. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
plagiarism
tenuous
fastidious
medley
19. Describing a large amount of something
ample
anachronism
venerated
coherent
20. Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
dogmatic
insolent
ebullience
apology
21. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action
parody
benign
contemptuous
obstinate
22. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
superficial
truncated
assiduous
conviction
23. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
quandary
catalog (v.)
flagrant
assertion
24. Not applied to actual objects
alienated
abstract
poignant
substantiated
25. Worthy of blame
reprehensible
disingenuous
arid
rational
26. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
affable
melancholy
stratagem
dubious
27. Anxiety or fear about the future
genre
fabricated
apprehension
spurious
28. Poisonous
toxic
putrid
misconception
impartial
29. An example or model
excerpt
deleterious
paradigm
benign
30. Long - complex - grammatically correct sentence
mediocrity
impartial
equivocate
period
31. Stubborn; inflexible
virtuoso
deleterious
gesticulating
obdurate
32. Combative; belligerent
pugnacious
ponderous
pervasive
anachronism
33. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
astute
tenacity
imperious
condescending
34. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
insolent
equivocate
dictatorial
diligent
35. General agreement
permeated
novice
consensus
astute
36. Referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
medieval
alienated
sanction
deleterious
37. Describing a showy or pretentious display
insolent
inherent
superfluous
ostentatious
38. Difficult to comprehend
enmity
vilify
archaic
cryptic
39. To absorb; to make similar
opulent
assimilation
obdurate
pragmatic
40. Making gestures while speaking
period
melancholy
gesticulating
flagrant
41. Possessed at birth; inborn
decorous
obsolete
vilify
innate
42. Easy-going; friendly
insolent
propriety
realism
affable
43. Not caring one way or the other
indifferent
stratagem
hypothetical
prudent
44. Quarrelsome
factious
mural
derived
inevitable
45. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
phenomenon
effusive
gratuitous
superficial
46. The act of making something useful again
ebullience
penitent
reclamation
asylum
47. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
ornate
didactic
cordial
dubious
48. Calm
impinge
replete
arbiter
serene
49. Playfully humorous
lucid
auspicious
enlightening
facetious
50. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
sanction
capricious
archaic
impartial