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AP English Vocab
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Hateful; marked by deep-seated ill-will
rancorous
virtuoso
discourse
conviction
2. Short-lived or temporary
transitory
novice
sardonic
arid
3. Intended to instruct
nascent
ambivalent
didactic
ebullience
4. Done by secretive means
incumbent
plausible
notorious
surreptitiously
5. To leave one country or region and settle in another
reclamation
emigrate
biased
enlightening
6. General agreement
consensus
despotic
nascent
parody
7. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
medley
compelling
acquired
disparage
8. Good will between friends
candor
didactic
camaraderie
paramount
9. A brilliantly executed plan
subdue
mundane
coup
endure
10. Lacking energy
dilettante
austere
listless
diligent
11. Incapable of being reformed
incorrigible
hackneyed
suppressed
propriety
12. A beginner
novice
pragmatic
integrity
poignant
13. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
permeated
malleable
impartial
inveterate
14. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
superfluous
transitory
whimsical
disparage
15. To calm or soothe
mollify
integrity
caustic
facetious
16. Extremely careful and precise
assimilation
obstinate
penitent
meticulous
17. Insulting in manner or speech
assertion
perspective
mural
insolent
18. Unimaginative; dull
apposition
contemptuous
fluid
prosaic
19. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
rancorous
compelling
excerpt
20. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archaic
anthropomorphism
laudatory
capricious
21. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
perception
gratuitous
dubious
rhetoric
22. The act of making something useful again
reclamation
staid
incontrovertible
malleable
23. Unimportant
obscure
dogmatic
inconsequential
comprehensive
24. Of or occurring in the night; under cover of darkness
gratuitous
pragmatic
nocturnal
staid
25. Describing a large amount of something
ebullience
ample
disingenuous
excerpt
26. Prejudiced
assiduous
biased
exculpate
mollify
27. Having a harmful effect; injurious
copious
dogged
deleterious
vilify
28. An economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
sanction
malleable
maverick
effusive
29. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
servile
insipid
incumbent
apparatus
30. Secretive
inveterate
clandestine
ponderous
pejorative
31. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arbitrary
ponderous
dogged
factious
32. Anxiety or fear about the future
medley
sardonic
plagiarism
apprehension
33. Possessed at birth; inborn
alleviate
innate
emigrate
hypothetical
34. Feeling hatred; scornful
ruse
affable
contemptuous
flagrant
35. Intricate; complex
benevolent
caustic
lexicon
convoluted
36. A tremendously skilled artist
realism
virtuoso
poignant
brittle
37. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family - or homeland)
alienated
harbinger
hierarchy
impartial
38. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
despotic
brittle
premonition
discourse
39. Shortened; cut off
intuition
impede
truncated
spontaneous
40. To grow or increase rapidly
mediocrity
proliferate
anthology
impartial
41. Submissive; like a servant
enlightening
servile
hypothetical
obscure
42. Having little substance or strength
tenuous
trepidation
ingrate
paramount
43. On guard
alleviate
wary
putrid
synecdoche
44. A fixed or strong belief
ebullience
conviction
parody
stoic
45. Logically connected
ostentatious
coherent
frank
benevolent
46. Extremely dull
syllogism
brittle
ponderous
brusque
47. Convincing; reasonable
trivial
pervasive
synecdoche
cogent
48. Defense of an idea
contemptuous
apology
poignant
wily
49. A crafty trick
solvent
subdue
ruse
novel
50. Mutual hatred or ill-will
elusive
enmity
stoic
transient