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APEngLitVocab
Vocabulary Words for AP English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abhor | To hate, detest |
| beguile | To trick, deceive |
| calumny | An attempt to spoil someone else’s reputation by spreading lies |
| decorous | socially proper |
| efficacious | effective |
| fatuous | silly |
| pulchritude | physical beauty |
| haughty | disdainfully proud |
| immutable | not changeable |
| laudatory | Expressing admiration or praise |
| manifest | Easily understandable, obvious |
| nocturnal | Relating to or occurring during the night |
| obstreperous | Noisy, unruly |
| paradigm | An example that is a perfect pattern or model |
| quotidian | daily |
| abet | To aid, help, encourage |
| battery | Assault, beating |
| callous | harsh, cold, unfeeling |
| debunk | To expose the falseness of something |
| effervescent | bubbly, lively |
| fathom | to undersatnd |
| gourmand | someone fond of eating/drinking |
| harrowing | Greatly distressing, vexing |
| immerse | absorb, engross in |
| latent | Hidden, but capable of being exposed |
| mandate | An authoritative command |
| neophyte | Someone who is young or inexperienced |
| obstinate | stubborn |
| panacea | cure-all |
| quixotic | childish, impractical, idealistic |
| abrogate | To abolish, usually by authority |
| philavery | An idiosyncratic collection of uncommon and pleasing words |
| ablactation | The process of ceasing to secrete milk |
| abrin | A deadly poison found in the seeds of the plant |
| effulgent | Radiant |
| acarologist | Someone who studies mites and ticks |
| acephalic | headless |
| maudlin | Weakly sentimental |
| officious | Offering one’s services when they are neither wanted nor needed |
| acerebral | Having no brain |
| rectitude | Extreme morality, uprightness |
| acouchy | A small rodent that is related to the agouti and lives in the Amazonian rainforest |
| temerity | audacity |
| acrasial | Excessive; intemperate; irregular; disordered |
| vicissitude | Event that occurs by chance |
| anathema | A cursed, detested person |
| ailurophobia | An abnormal fear of cats |
| anenterous | Lacking a stomach or intestine |
| enervate | To weaken, exhaust |
| antipyretic | Drug that reduces fever |
| mendacious | Having a lying, false character |
| ostensible | Appearing as such; seemingly |
| anthropophagy | The practice of eating human flesh |
| reprobate | Evil, unprincipled |
| solipistic | Believing that oneself is all that exists |
| annelid | Types of invertebrates (like earthworms) that have long, soft bodies made up of segments |
| adumbrate | to sketch out in a vague way |
| concomitant | Accompanying in a subordinate fashion |
| aposeiopesis | A sudden stop in and failure to complete a thought or a sentence |
| aprosexia | An abnormal inability to pay attention, often characterized by a lack of interest in anything |
| cur | A mongrel dog; a mean or cowardly person |
| defray | To pay; assume the payment of |
| patina | A green crust substance that accumulates on old bronze and copper surfaces. |
| plenary | Attended by all qualified members. |
| impecunious | Having little or no money; poverty- stricken. |
| propitiate | To appease; to conciliate |
| doctrinaire | Fanatical; impractical; without regard to practical considerations |
| pinnace | A small boat, usually non-motorized |
| prepossessing | Attractive; something that is engaging. |
| nestor | A senior; a leader in one's field; a wise old man |
| compunction | Remorse; uneasiness caused by guilt. |
| ensconce | To settle comfortably; place in a secure place. |
| funambulism | A show of mental prowess. |
| cite | To seize the property of a person so as to compel and force the payment of a debt. |
| vitiate | To lower the quality of; to weaken; to spoil. |
| mussitate | To move the lips in imitation of speech |
| stultify | To make or cause to appear or become stupid or foolish; to frustrate; to hinder. |
| solecism | A nonstandard or outdated grammatical construction; a grammatical mistake. |
| besot | Infatuate, to obsess. |
| bolide | A large meteor; a fireball that eventually explodes |
| bariatric | Of or relating to that branch of medicine that deals with obesity; pertaining or referring to something that is obese. |
| parsimony | Stinginess; excessive frugality. |
| bridle | To control or restrain; to show anger. |
| preposterous | Outrageous; absurd; unreasonable or overly ridiculous. |
| girth | The distance around something; the circumference. |
| chantey | A song sung by sailors |
| tramp | A vagrant; somebody who travels about aimlessly. |
| palpable | Tangible; easily perceptible; obvious. |
| tutelage | Guardianship; instruction. |
| chaste | Being morally pure; virginal; abstaining from illicit sexual acts. |
| extant | existing, not destroyed or lost |
| extol | to praise, revere |
| fallacious | incorrect, misleading |
| defenestration | throwing someone out the window |
| fecund | fruitful |
| feak | a curling lock of hair |
| famulate | to serve |
| florid | flowery, ornate |
| fractious | troublesome, irritable |
| garrulous | talkative, wordy |
| grandiloquence | lofty, pompous language |
| gregarious | drawn to the company of others |
| hackneyed | trite, unoriginal |
| hapless | unlucky |
| harangue | ranting speech |
| hegemony | domination over others |
| iconoclast | one who attacks common beliefs or institutions |
| ignominious | humiliating, disgracing |
| impassive | stoic |
| imperious | commanding |
| impertinent | insolent |
| impervious | impenetrable |
| impetuous | impinge |
| implacable | incapable of being appeased or mitigated |
| impudent | casually rude, insolent |
| inchoate | formless |
| incontrovertible | indisputable |
| indefatigable | incapable of defeat |
| abjure | to reject, renounce |
| anacoluthon | a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence |
| acerbic | biting, bitter |
| acrimony | bitterness, discord |
| acumen | keen insight |
| catachresis | misuse or strained use of words |
| alacrity | eagerness, speed |
| apophasis | denial of one's intention to speak of a subject that is not at the same time named or insinuated |
| antipathy | a strong dislike, repugnance |
| fiducial | accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison |
| arrogate | to take without justification |
| ascetic | practicing restraint as a means of self discipline, usually religious |
| aspersion | a curse or expression of ill-will |
| assiduous | hard-working, diligent |
| blandish | to coax by using flattery |
| boon | a gift or blessing |
| teratoid | resembling a monster |
| veloce | played at a fast tempo |
| burnish | to polish, shine |
| zeugma | the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only of them or to each but in a different way |
| cacophony | tremendous noise |
| cajole | urge, coax |
| imbue | to dye, to instill profoundly |
| capricious | subject to whim, fickle |
| clemency | mercy |
| cogent | intellectually convincing |
| orotund | full in sound, bombastic |
| conflagration | great fire |
| contrite | penitent, eager to be forgiven |
| conundrum | puzzle, problem |
| acquiesce | to agree |
| vociferous | clamorous |
| curtail | cut short |
| epicure | someone who appreciates good food and drink |
| heed | listen to |
| lampoon | spoof |
| condign | deserved |
| brio | vigor |
| resonant | echoing |
| tenuous | flimsy |
| nonage | a period of youth or immaturity |
| boorish | ill-mannered |
| cynical | believing that people act out of selfish motives |
| epistle | a letter |
| heresy | against orthodox opinion |
| oneiric | pertaining to or suggestive of dreams |
| execrable | detestable or extremely bad |
| atelier | a workshop, studio |
| respite | intermission |
| quidnunc | a gossip or busybody |
| acrophobia | fear of heights |
| impassible | incapable of suffering |
| gloaming | twilight, dusk |
| epistolary | concerned with letters, through correspondence |
| hiatus | interruption |
| languid | tired |
| cormorant | a gluttonous person |
| coruscate | to emit vivid flashes of light |
| resplendent | shining |
| harridan | a scolding, vicious woman |
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