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AP Vocab 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Integrity | Total honesty and sincerity |
| Affable | Being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| Facetious | Joking or jesting often inappropriately; not serious |
| Assiduous | Showing great care, attention, and effort |
| Quandary | A state of perplexity or doubt |
| Transient | Passing especially quickly into and out of existence |
| Colloquial | Ordinary or familiar type of conversation |
| Jargon | Diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity |
| Denotation | The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations |
| Connotation | The associations suggested by a word; implied meaning rather than literal meaning |
| Penitent | Feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses |
| Elusive | Tending to evade grasp or pursuit; hard to comprehend or define |
| Convoluted | Intricate |
| Consensus | General agreement |
| Incumbent | Obligatory |
| Profound | Having intellectual depth and insight |
| Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing |
| Vernacular | The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region |
| Aphorism | A pithy observation that contains a general truth |
| Fallacy | A mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound or misleading argument; faulty reasoning |
| Eloquent | Marked by forceful and fluent expression |
| Futile | Serving no useful purpose; completely ineffective |
| Impede | To interfere with or slow the progress of |
| Dogmatic | Expressing opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| Capricious | Impulsive; unpredictable |
| Intrepid | Characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| Juxtaposition | Placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect |
| Anaphora | Repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses |
| Invective | Insulting or abusive language |
| Parallelism | Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns |
| Ostentatious | Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice |
| Impartial | Not partial or biased; treating or affecting all equally |
| Vindicated | To free from allegation or blame |
| Embellish | To make beautiful with ornamentation |
| Proliferate | To increase in number |
| Wary | Very cautious |
| Paradox | A statement/person that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true |
| Oxymoron | A combination of contradictory or incongruous words |
| Hyperbole | An extravagant or extreme exaggeration |
| Antecedent | A noun, pronoun, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun; an event or cause coming before something |
| Pretentious | Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed |
| Disingenuous | Lacking honesty or sincerity |
| Amenable | Having or showing willingness to agree or to accept something that is wanted or asked for |
| Superfluous | Exceeding what is necessary; unnecessary |
| Tenuous | Having little substance or strength |
| Didactic | Designed or intended to teach (rather than to entertain) |
| Analogy | A comparison between two things to show their similarities |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or the whole for a part |
| Litotes | Understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary |
| Allusion | The act of making an indirect reference to something |
| Nebulous | Unclear, vague, or ill-defined |
| Remiss | Careless |
| Bellicose | Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight |
| Dismal | Depressing |
| Incendiary | Tending to excite |
| Frivolous | Not having any serious purpose or value |
| Ambivalent | Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone |
| Nefarious | Wicked |
| Pensive | Thoughtful |
| Brazen | Marked by shameless boldness |
| Proponent | An advocate |
| Mendacious | Lying |
| Duplicitous | Deceitful |
| Digress | To deviate |
| Contrive | Create or bring about by deliberate use of skill and artifice |
| Careen | Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction |
| Equitable | Fair and impartial |
| Benefactor | A person who gives money or other help to a person or cause |
| Acculturation | Assimilation to a different culture, typically the dominant one |
| Cerebral | Of or relating to the brain or the intellect |
| Paramount | More important than anything else; supreme |
| Aggrandize | To make great or greater |
| Procure | Obtain something with care or effort |
| Mar | To ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of; to spoil |
| Inordinate | Exceeding reasonable limits; immoderate |
| Gaudy | Extravagant or sometimes tastelessly showy |
| Tantamount | Equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| Ephemeral | Lasting for a very short time |
| Quell | To quiet or pacify |
| Pragmatic | Dealing with things sensibly and realistically |
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