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AP LangVocab List 11
Eleventh list of 15 words for the 1st semester of AP Lang and Comp
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Altruistic | (adjective) having care for others before oneself; unselfish |
| Virtuosity | (noun) great skillfulness; learnedness; expertise |
| Progeny | (noun) descendants, offspring, a result of creative effort, a project |
| Consummate | (verb) to complete; to make perfect; (adjective) complete; perfect; fully skilled |
| Assiduous | (adjective) hardworking diligent; devoted |
| Fraught | (adjective) filled or attended with; charged with |
| Wry | (adjective) twisted, humorous but touched with irony |
| Enigma | (noun) a riddle; one that is puzzling, ambiguous or inexplicable |
| Urbane | (adjective) polished, witty, elegant, suave; effortlessly gracious |
| Ersatz | (adjective) an unconvincing substitute; not the "real thing" |
| Apocryphal | (adjective) of dubious authenticity, fabricated |
| Rigmarole | (noun) nonsensically complicated procedure; misleading and incomprehensible doubletalk |
| Tautology | (noun) unnecessary repetition--in different words--of an already stated idea; redundancy |
| Visceral | (adjective) deeply felt (means literally "from the viscera" or bodily interior) |
| Execrable | (adjective) horrible, detestable, extremely bad |