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AP English Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Hinder; interfere with
parody
impression
impinge
indifferent
2. Hard-working
medley
biased
assiduous
context
3. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
rhetoric
camaraderie
convoluted
stoic
4. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
medieval
eclectic
plagiarism
novel
5. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
putrid
elusive
maverick
florid
6. A crafty trick
impinge
plausible
nascent
ruse
7. Causing great harm
acquired
lexicon
pernicious
propitious
8. Practical
ominous
factious
pragmatic
theoretical
9. A union of two or more groups
conflagration
alliance
arbitrary
mural
10. To ease a pain or burden
alienated
equivocate
perspective
alleviate
11. Referring to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned
medieval
brusque
ambivalent
alliance
12. Bound to happen; unavoidable
trepidation
cogent
inevitable
phenomenon
13. Sincerity; openness
meticulous
misconception
intuition
candor
14. Intended to instruct
didactic
quandary
sonorous
dilettante
15. Trustworthiness; completeness
transitory
trivial
sonorous
integrity
16. Difficult to comprehend
implication
chiasmus
incontrovertible
cryptic
17. Severely critical or sarcastic
alienated
condemn
caustic
asylum
18. Fear - apprehension
apprehension
dilettante
trepidation
incumbent
19. Timid; fearful about the future
lucid
sardonic
fastidious
timorous
20. Spread or flowing throughout
candor
permeated
apology
pervasive
21. Not genuine
indifferent
spurious
abstract
vitality
22. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
florid
exemplary
comprehensive
decorous
23. Defense of an idea
perspective
apology
truncated
maverick
24. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
poignant
clandestine
despotic
intuition
25. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
diligent
coup
heinous
despotic
26. Not migratory; settled
cryptic
proliferate
objectivity
sedentary
27. Extreme ill-will or spite
objectivity
capricious
benign
malice
28. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
effusive
asylum
eclectic
narrative
29. Stubbornly adhering to unproved beliefs
inevitable
implication
hypocrisy
dogmatic
30. Introducing something new
stratagem
didactic
premonition
innovative
31. A place of retreat or security
novice
asylum
lament
ample
32. A brilliantly executed plan
apposition
coup
assiduous
novice
33. A feeling about the future
metonymy
premonition
ebullience
factious
34. A judge who decides a disputed issue
vindicated
malfeasance
arbiter
abstract
35. Freed from blame
malice
transitory
anthology
vindicated
36. Existing only as an assumption or speculation
exemplary
imperious
hypothetical
coherent
37. Worthy of blame
notorious
reprehensible
conviction
endure
38. Responsive; agreeable
comprehensive
enlightening
amenable
obstinate
39. A form of deductive reasoning: a major premise - a minor premise - and a conclusion
maverick
trepidation
syllogism
amenable
40. Describing a large amount of something
ample
heinous
arid
insipid
41. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
sanction
cogent
contemptuous
42. Elaborately decorated
ornate
proximity
convoluted
aesthetic
43. Stubbornly persevering
flagrant
arid
dogged
acquired
44. Describing a dry - rainless climate
arid
torpor
sedentary
hierarchy
45. Good will between friends
archaic
replete
anthology
camaraderie
46. Feeling hatred; scornful
facetious
arbitrary
conception
contemptuous
47. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
replete
benevolent
frenetic
parody
48. Unplanned; naturally occurring
conception
spontaneous
impede
reclamation
49. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
pragmatic
slander
spurious
novice
50. Extremely dull
exculpate
harbinger
emigrate
ponderous