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AP English Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To restrain; to hold back
arid
penitent
subdue
biased
2. Prejudiced
heinous
hackneyed
biased
poignant
3. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
discourse
harbinger
parody
impinge
4. An economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
sanction
brusque
realism
vindicated
5. Extreme ill-will or spite
auspicious
malice
opulent
fabricated
6. Sincerity; openness
transient
inveterate
discredit
candor
7. A selected part of a passage or scene
meticulous
excerpt
imperious
gratuitous
8. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
parallelism
putrid
novel
torpor
9. Intense enthusiasm
cryptic
ebullience
dogmatic
sanction
10. Feeling or showing little emotion
trivial
anthology
apathetic
subdue
11. A place of retreat or security
syllogism
coherent
prodigious
asylum
12. To put up with; to survive a hardship
substantiated
endure
sanction
pragmatic
13. To calm or soothe
mollify
heinous
malleable
implication
14. To cause to be doubted
rhetoric
discredit
staid
indolent
15. Worthy of blame
reprehensible
dilettante
context
stratagem
16. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
flagrant
dogmatic
florid
mural
17. Express grief for; mourn
auspicious
lament
lucid
solvent
18. Point of view
replete
perspective
wary
medieval
19. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
quandary
astute
fastidious
pragmatic
20. Intended to instruct
cordial
ebullience
apprehension
didactic
21. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
modest
reclamation
dogmatic
apparatus
22. Possessing carefull attention to detail; difficult to please
malice
eclectic
insipid
fastidious
23. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
lucid
ponderous
facetious
transient
24. Possessed at birth; inborn
dubious
opulent
novel
innate
25. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
arid
affable
equanimity
apathetic
26. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
poignant
frank
discredit
ponderous
27. Not caring one way or the other
mural
theoretical
indifferent
frank
28. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
idealize
despotic
disparage
pejorative
29. Quarrelsome
factious
spurious
futile
candor
30. Unimportant
fabricated
idealize
perspective
inconsequential
31. Proper; marked by good taste
propriety
innate
decorous
flagrant
32. Existing only as an assumption or speculation
hypothetical
flagrant
integrity
diligent
33. Equipment; a group of machines
theoretical
exculpate
apparatus
patronizing
34. Easy-going; friendly
affable
sardonic
mundane
impinge
35. Energy; power to survive
mundane
misconception
discredit
vitality
36. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
futile
plagiarism
meticulous
benign
37. All-powerful
omnipotent
opulent
consensus
laudatory
38. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
propriety
vitality
incorrigible
39. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
hackneyed
condescending
eloquence
innate
40. Insulting in manner or speech
insolent
stoic
conviction
derived
41. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
insipid
alienated
didactic
impartial
42. Appropriateness of behavior
dogged
propriety
camaraderie
sanction
43. Defense of an idea
elusive
torpor
apology
panegyric
44. On guard
realism
heinous
emigrate
wary
45. A grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation
aesthetic
apposition
apology
obdurate
46. Hatefully evil; abominable
heinous
serene
condescending
didactic
47. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
synecdoche
contemporary
rancorous
abstract
48. A tremendously skilled artist
obscure
modest
virtuoso
inherent
49. Disdainfully or ironically humorous; harsh - bitter - or caustic
superfluous
sardonic
reprehensible
impede
50. To ease a pain or burden
biased
trivial
endure
alleviate