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100 AP English Words
100 Words Every Junior AP English Student Should Know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abjure | to renounce, repudiate, or retract, especially with formal solemnity; recant |
| abrogate | to abolish by formal or official means; annul by an authoritative act; repeal |
| abstemious | sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet. |
| acumen | keen insight; shrewdness |
| antebellum | before or existing before a war |
| auspicious | promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable |
| belie | to show to be false; contradict |
| bellicose | inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious |
| bowdlerize | to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable |
| chicanery | trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry |
| chromosome | any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order |
| churlish | boorish; rude |
| circumnavigate | to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation |
| deciduous | shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs |
| deleterious | injurious to health |
| diffident | lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy |
| enervate | to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken |
| enfranchise | to grant a franchise to; admit to citizenship, especially to the right of voting |
| enthymeme | a syllogism or other argument in which a premise or the conclusion is unexpressed |
| epiphany | |
| equinox | |
| euro | |
| evanescent | |
| expurgate | |
| facetious | |
| fatuous | |
| feckless | |
| fiduciary | |
| filibuster |